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Moby Dick (1930)

Moby Dick poster
Directed by
Lloyd Bacon
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 20m
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A sea captain sets out to hunt a white whale that previously maimed him. He leads his crew on a dangerous voyage driven by revenge and obsession.

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What happens

Moby Dick is a 1930 American pre-Code film from Warner Bros. Pictures, directed by Lloyd Bacon, and starring John Barrymore, Joan Bennett and Walter Lang. The film is a sound remake of the 1926 silent movie, The Sea Beast, which also starred Barrymore. It is the first film adaptation of Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick that includes a soundtrack. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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