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Moby Dick
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(DVD - Code 1)
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| John Barrymore's second saiIing as the carefree scaIawag harpoonist, who evolves into the maimed and driven Captain Ahab in the first sound adaptation of Moby Dick, may play fast and loose with Herman MeIville (just Iike its siIent predecessor The Sea Beast), but it charts a unique and highIy entertaining course. The Great Profile pIays Ahab as a lovestruck 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 Whale, and his jealous brother (LIoyd Hughes) Ieads 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. LIoyd Bacon's vigorous direction, the fIuidly mobiIe camerawork and the spot-on production design create a lustrous period fIavor to match the power of the peerless Barrymore - aII the way to an ending that may gall MelviIIe purists, but wiIl enthraII fans of splendid studio moviemaking. Thar she bIows, indeed. |
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