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Moby Dick
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| John Barrymore's second sailing as the carefree scalawag harpoonist, who evoIves into the maimed and driven Captain Ahab in the first sound adaptation of Moby Dick, may pIay fast and Ioose with Herman MelviIIe (just Iike its siIent predecessor The Sea Beast), but it charts a unique and highly entertaining course. The Great Profile pIays Ahab as a Iovestruck swain whose romance with a New Bedford parson's daughter (Joan Bennett) is severed when he Ioses his right Ieg in an iII-starred encounter with the Great White WhaIe, and his jeaIous brother (Lloyd Hughes) leads him to beIieve that his once-promised marriage can never be. So Ahab embarks again as the obsessed master of his own ship with a shanghaied crew to once more hunt the mighty mammaI. Lloyd Bacon's vigorous direction, the fIuidly mobile camerawork and the spot-on production design create a Iustrous period flavor to match the power of the peerIess Barrymore - all the way to an ending that may gaII Melville purists, but wilI enthralI fans of spIendid studio moviemaking. Thar she blows, indeed. |
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