@@sophistichistory4645 heck the book moby Rick is even in Khan’s library when Chekhov comes aboard the Botany Bay. Plus Khan’s line “I’ll chase him round the moons of nebula and the attarius malestrum and participial flames before I give him up.”
Well, I’m 60 years old. We never had a TV or nothing like that and I still don’t, but I remember watching this movie when I was a little kid and being scared shitless about getting tied around a whale with a bunch of rope. So I think it’s pretty old. I think the new one they made had that kid Ethan Hawk in it.
Cinematography, score, dialogue, costumes, editing superb. In 1956, no stereo, no cgi. High tech in '56 was green screen, overdubbing, using miniatures. The suspence, powerful anger and hatred are riveting.
When I see this awesome performance of Gregory Peck, I think always to Ernest HEMINGWAY. He could writte it. MELVILLE has created a real "Chef d'Oeuvre", and John HOUSTON magnified it. 👏👏👏👏👏👍
This is the first movie I remember seeing. I was 4 or 5 at the time. My parents went to the drive in to see it. Scared the crap out of me…I remember that!
The coffin, Drowned Queequeg’s coffin kept me afloat for one whole day and night, till a ship sailed by, The Rachel, still searching for her missing children, only to find an orphan.
"Call me Ishmael." Great novel, great movie. Mark Rascovich based his book 'The Bedford Incident' on 'Moby Dick'. The final 2 sentences are almost identical in both books.
Can’t blame the poor pincushion whale for getting pissed off and destroying them all, he was crisscrossed with scars and stuck with multiple harpoons. Ahab must have held the world record for the longest free-dive.
What a fantastic film this is, wonderful casting, no CGI. Whenever I hear 'Mountains' Nantucket Sleigh Ride I remember being enthralled by this film...Brilliant..
It's hard to believe, but the fact is that these scenes were so scary and terrifying in their time that people in the cinema closed their eyes out of fear !
It was considered frightening because we used to consider whales monstrous, dangerous creatures. Now that we know how smart and benevolent they are, the whalers are the ones to be feared.
@@mandolindleyroadshow706 True, but whaling was very much a dangerous job. Spermwhales did sink ships back then. Moby Dick is inspired by the sinking of the whale-ship Essex, wich was damaged by a sperm whale in 1820 and then sunk a few days later. Another documented case is the Ann-Alexander, also attacked and sunk by a spermwhale in 1851.
Oh my God, am I that old we barely had pictures of the movies at that time!! I’m totally bummed to be this old before my time!! I’m sure most of my old friends are too!
@@Daniel-yo5es It is better from our generations perspective. Puppets and models are real things even if they are still puppets and model's. To us your CGI looks like a video game. Nothing real about a video game. It's all fake. You kids like the video game look, we like the real model look. His comment is not dumb.
There are examples of good and bad practical effects, same goes with CGI. This particular example of practical effects is one of the best, even in today's standard of CGI - just look at how they capture the close encounters with the whale...
The way the water moves gives the toy ship away and would have been done better today with cg today, but still good for the time and the whale looked more realistic than the shark in Jaws decades later.
This is absolutely, objectively not better than today's CGI. Lol You see CGI and modern compositing in every movie and Netflix show you watch and don't even realize it because it's indistinguishable from reality. The car passing by in the background, the trees blowing in the wind, etc, may or may not have been digitally inserted and you wouldn't know.
I never get tired of this scene, Gregory Peck was incredible as Ahab. I'd love to see how they did the mechanical effects with the whale and miniatures, they still stand up after all these years. Imagine if this was filmed in IMAX. . .
Gave it a thumbs-up. Interesting documentary-style presentation. But, must say I prefer it with one of the most magnificent film scores of all time. The music is a poem of the sea capturing it's varied and changing moods.
It would very interesting to see how this was filmed. Whale and all. Stunning effects for it's time. Couldn't make the shark in Jaws work. But they did a superb job of this whale.
@@donaldboyer8182 They used multiple effects to create the whale. Miniature white whales and long boats were filmed for the long shots in Elstree Studios, they also used two 60 foot models, one that Gregory Peck actually rode on (2:16) Other times they used body parts (a massive head, tail, etc). There are a lot of behind the scenes images on Google. Check them out, they are very interesting.
Impressive visual effects for the time. Aside from the whale itself, they even modeled the whale boats with little men rowing inside them. It would be interesting to see a making-of doc that explains how they created all the effects.
Fun fact: Gregory Peck reappeared in another reboot of MOBY DICK. This time Peck played the town minister and Patrick Stewart played Captain Ahab, which is interesting because Stewart recited many lines from MOBY DICK when he played Captain Picard. Ricardo Montalban played Khan Noonien Singh who also recited many lines from MOBY DICK. In this case Admiral Kirk was the white whale and Khan was Ahab.
@@HerrEllsworth Now if we're talking about Gregory Peck nautical adventures, then we have to include, HORATIO HORNBLOWER. MOBY DICK. ON THE BEACH. THE WORLD IN HIS ARMS. I like it when Peck plays a lawyer in; CAPE FEAR. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
For the time this film came out it's still a classic great actors even the special effects were good for the time very good story telling love this film always. 📽📽📽🎬🎬🎬📽📽
It’s worth knowing that in the book Moby Dick took Ahab’s leg… twice The first time made him get all of this obsession on killing the whale The second time was during the Pequod’s second hunting day on Moby Dick, destroying his prostatic leg and taking Ahab’s allie during it’s hunt, Parse
A classic movie based on a classic novel, based itself on the real life plight of The Essex. Gregory Peck delivered a phenomenal Captain Ahab. I saw it on the TV in the sixties and was blown away by it. I read the novel years later, which remains one of my favourite novels of all time. the movie still stands up, even after sixty-eight years. It was made the year before I was born.
Very good job fellows!! Tour de force for Gregory Peck. I watched the entire movie just studying his every move, facial expression and every word! One of the most powerful performances from an actor I've ever seen. Take away everything else and just his acting would be worth the watch.
The original Shadow of the Colossus. Rented this from my public library on VHS in 5th grade (2002) and it still leaves an impression on me to this day.
WHALE 100, AHAB AND CREW NOTHING!! What a magnificent performance by the great Gregory Peck!! Intensity, rage, and obsession rarely if ever matched in cinematic history. Ricardo Montalban's reprise of these same lines years later seems lifeless by comparison. Peck has always been my favorite film star in terms of what he embodies on screen. In this fabulous film, his obsession drags himself and his poor crew into the brink depths. Each man martyred for a twisted ideal. What an actor. What a film!!
Outstanding film. Just as I’ve always remembered it as a kid 50 years ago. And thought of it for as many years since. Ahab. Roped to, and drown by the White Whale Moby Dick! Still strikes immense fear in me to this day.
Thls was one of my favorite books. This old film was also wonderful for it's time. The lesson in this film is that hate can kill you and those around you.
Good film and an outstanding novel. Regardless of your feelings you had to be one brave man to go to circle the globe, to the center of the deepest parts of the ocean, get in a row boat and hunt a 60 ton, bull Spermacetti whale.
Un clásico del cine, me llevé una sorpresa al conocer que se había rodado en la isla de Gran Canaria, los carpinteros del muelle tuvieron bastante trabajo. Gracias un saludo 🇮🇨🇪🇸
@@stesilaus1688 There's a movie called, ORCA where the killer whale goes after the hunter who killed its mate and offspring. Can't we all get along? I like the stories where the roles are reversed. The animal becomes the apex predator over man. Most of the time man wins out, except in PLANET OF THE APES.
That scene at the end triggered my PTSD. My buddies girlfriend was a biggie as well, and once when she did a cannon ball off the high board All I remember is the air mattress getting sucked down in the giant hole in the water where she landed.
Oh boy! I haven’t seen this since 1956, when my dad took us into Hartford to see it. He was a graduate student then, and drove an intercity bus part time, and took the family (6 of us) using the bus.
Astonishing performance by my favorite movie star. Gregory Peck to me embodies everything good about what Hollywood should represent. Most of all in this classic tale of nature overmatching man. The crazed torment of Ahab pours through in every word he utters. Star Trek The Wrath of Khan borrowed Ahabs line. In all respect to Ricardo Montalban, Peck is an actor of far greater depth. He should have won the Academy Award in a walk for this glorious performance. "For hates sake, I stab at thee!" And for insanitys sake as well. Peck should gave had two statues to his honor. As good or better than his Atticus Finch. Only in a strange, more twisted way.
In his younger days my Uncle Jimmy volunteered for the lifeboat crew at his local station. This was in Pembrokeshire. He told me a story that on the morning after a wild storm his crew was called out. Not to save someone in peril, but to search for a fibreglass whale that had broken free in the storm. The whale was found and returned to those making this film. Its attempt at escape failed, it seems.
I've always wondered if, at the end, Starbuck finally succumbed to Ahab's madness, or if, when he gave the last command to pursue Moby Dick, he was actually just holding fast to his previously stated belief that MD was just a beast, not a devil.
for starbuck who thinks ahab has committed blasphemy by raising his fist to god the reaction of the crew seeing ahab beckon thus making the whole hunt and the whale supernatural is too much.to him its an even worse blaphsemy to think the whale sent by god or the devil! its just a whale a monstrous big one but a whale! he holds to his strict beliefs til the end never giving in to ahabs madness.
@@anthonyjulianelle6695 The dynamic also changes now that Ahab is dead. Ahab's obsession died with him, and to Starbuck, Moby Dick is now "just a whale".
Yep. Spielberg talks about using no music during the shark attacks in Jaws. The music comes before (to build suspense) and after. I think it works well here too.
Glory be, Mandolindley Road Show. The sound effects you've uploaded here are astounding and breathtaking as if we're watching live Moby Dick is tormented by Captain Ahab. Thunder and Hell, you've done a superb service for impressing me with your high stereo resonance in this beloved movie classic.
Movie blew me away as a kid. Still has the same effect all these years later. Even though the special effects were primitive for its day, the film still holds its own and Gregory Peck was the standard for Ahab.
I still can't stomach this scene after so many years. Poor Starbuck, faithful to the end. Poor Starbuck, ever the fool. 10 times an ass, 10 times a mule.
The direction is surprising for the time, you don't need CGI to tell a good story, this is art, totally handmade, just like Planet Krypton when it appears on the screen in Superman the movie, exciting and visceral!
One pissed off whale. This movie was terrifying to me, watched with my father in the basement, on black and white. Then watched Seahunt. Loyd Bridges. Thanks from.St. Paul Minnesota.
"From Hell's heart, I stab at thee!! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!!"
That's my go-to line when someone cuts me off in traffic.
KHAAAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!
@@NomadRepublic Yep......the screenwriters for "The Wrath of Khan" knew their Hermann Melville.
😁😁😁
@@sophistichistory4645 heck the book moby Rick is even in Khan’s library when Chekhov comes aboard the Botany Bay. Plus Khan’s line “I’ll chase him round the moons of nebula and the attarius malestrum and participial flames before I give him up.”
Man, try decaf instead!
This film is 66 years old and this scene remains mesmerising
In 2026 already 70 years!😢😢
You've gotta say the effects are superb if you think this came out 60 or so years ago
80
@@VeXeDZERO : 68yr i was born in 56
Well, I’m 60 years old. We never had a TV or nothing like that and I still don’t, but I remember watching this movie when I was a little kid and being scared shitless about getting tied around a whale with a bunch of rope. So I think it’s pretty old. I think the new one they made had that kid Ethan Hawk in it.
Cinematography, score, dialogue, costumes, editing superb. In 1956, no stereo, no cgi. High tech in '56 was green screen, overdubbing, using miniatures. The suspence, powerful anger and hatred are riveting.
When I see this awesome performance of Gregory Peck, I think always to Ernest HEMINGWAY. He could writte it. MELVILLE has created a real "Chef d'Oeuvre", and John HOUSTON magnified it.
👏👏👏👏👏👍
Moby Dick a book worth reading, a movie worth seeing
blue screen?
In one shot you can see house's and the coast line with the water break.
Still a good film for its time
This is the first movie I remember seeing. I was 4 or 5 at the time. My parents went to the drive in to see it. Scared the crap out of me…I remember that!
This has to be Gregory Peck’s greatest role. He was so good in this movie!
By far!! (And "The Guns of Navarrone" was pretty good, too)
Khan tried to copy it but failed 👍
I read some old reviews of this film and the critics didn't like Peck's Ahab - they said it was weak- but I think it was his best performance.
Perhaps, but I always see him as Atticus Finch first
Cape Fear
When i was a kid and saw this Gregory Peck scared the bejesus out of me
The coffin,
Drowned Queequeg’s coffin kept me afloat for one whole day and night, till a ship sailed by, The Rachel, still searching for her missing children, only to find an orphan.
Just finished it. Melville is the dude, and kinda nuts
The great shroud of the sea
With the lines superbly read by Richard Basehart...
"Call me Ishmael." Great novel, great movie. Mark Rascovich based his book 'The Bedford Incident' on 'Moby Dick'. The final 2 sentences are almost identical in both books.
@@RyanDuffy1192 mad?? Absolutely barking!!
Can’t blame the poor pincushion whale for getting pissed off and destroying them all, he was crisscrossed with scars and stuck with multiple harpoons. Ahab must have held the world record for the longest free-dive.
Never underestimate a man who have fueled with motivation and revenge, they can even move a mountain if they want it
This classic still holds up in every way what a tale Melvilles masterpiece!!
Bravo to all involved
« The birds…..it rises !!! » The way his voices trembles saying it, wow.
I think it's "He rises"
A man's obsession with revenge destroys him and all his followers. I've seen it before.
All but one. “when you seek revenge dig two graves”
A great masterpiece.
AGREE 🐳⛵🎥🎞️. 🥇
This was probably Gregory Peck's finest moment his portrayal of the Captain obsessed with the white whale.
👍👍👍👍🐳🐳
Impressive that this was done in 1956.
1 year before i was born and i can say is ,,,wow and ohm myyy.
That was JAWS before Jaws in1956
@@robinswenson9045 Made everyone not go whaling for one summer in 1956.
What a fantastic film this is, wonderful casting, no CGI. Whenever I hear 'Mountains' Nantucket Sleigh Ride I remember being enthralled by this film...Brilliant..
This is actually all cgi. The whole thing is green screen. Same team who made the star wars prequels.
It's hard to believe, but the fact is that these scenes were so scary and terrifying in their time that people in the cinema closed their eyes out of fear !
It was considered frightening because we used to consider whales monstrous, dangerous creatures. Now that we know how smart and benevolent they are, the whalers are the ones to be feared.
Ray Bradbury knew how to scare people as well as any writer who ever lived. His horror short stories are wonderfully terrifying.
@@mandolindleyroadshow706 True, but whaling was very much a dangerous job. Spermwhales did sink ships back then. Moby Dick is inspired by the sinking of the whale-ship Essex, wich was damaged by a sperm whale in 1820 and then sunk a few days later. Another documented case is the Ann-Alexander, also attacked and sunk by a spermwhale in 1851.
Oh my God, am I that old we barely had pictures of the movies at that time!! I’m totally bummed to be this old before my time!! I’m sure most of my old friends are too!
I did right now, I peaked to type this.
One of the greatest examples of practical effects, much better than today's CGI
lmao... no it isnt. absolutely not. just an silly statement.
@@Daniel-yo5es It is better from our generations perspective. Puppets and models are real things even if they are still puppets and model's. To us your CGI looks like a video game. Nothing real about a video game. It's all fake. You kids like the video game look, we like the real model look. His comment is not dumb.
There are examples of good and bad practical effects, same goes with CGI. This particular example of practical effects is one of the best, even in today's standard of CGI - just look at how they capture the close encounters with the whale...
The way the water moves gives the toy ship away and would have been done better today with cg today, but still good for the time and the whale looked more realistic than the shark in Jaws decades later.
This is absolutely, objectively not better than today's CGI. Lol
You see CGI and modern compositing in every movie and Netflix show you watch and don't even realize it because it's indistinguishable from reality. The car passing by in the background, the trees blowing in the wind, etc, may or may not have been digitally inserted and you wouldn't know.
Watched it in the 60s on telly, didn't realise till now it's in colour! Fantastic
In the mid fifties this was unbeliveable .
" With a hail of Harbooooons!..... With every last drop of my being! "
CURSE YOU BAYLE!!!!!!
Behold! A true drake warrior! *points to the player character wearing a pot on his head* and I Igon!!
CURSE YOU WHALE!!!
I never get tired of this scene, Gregory Peck was incredible as Ahab. I'd love to see how they did the mechanical effects with the whale and miniatures, they still stand up after all these years. Imagine if this was filmed in IMAX. . .
The Great Gregory Peck. Brilliant film. The best version. Never been beaten. And a sterling co cast.
They needed a bigger boat.
Lol 😂
Lol that’s funny!
Or a smaller whale.
Yes a battleship would have been useful.
funnily enough Quint is based on Ahab
First time I've seen this since it was on Sunday Night at the Movies in the early 60's. Terrific movie.
I saw it then too pretty sure it was in black and white
I've got both, original and remake. No comparison.
Gregory Peck has always been one of my favorite actors. This movie is one of his finest performances ever.
Peck would have disagreed with you.
Those special effects are unbelievably great given the time.
30 years later after first seen it. that thing still scares me.
Gave it a thumbs-up. Interesting documentary-style presentation. But, must say I prefer it with one of the most magnificent film scores of all time. The music is a poem of the sea capturing it's varied and changing moods.
It would very interesting to see how this was filmed. Whale and all. Stunning effects for it's time. Couldn't make the shark in Jaws work. But they did a superb job of this whale.
@@donaldboyer8182 They used multiple effects to create the whale. Miniature white whales and long boats were filmed for the long shots in Elstree Studios, they also used two 60 foot models, one that Gregory Peck actually rode on (2:16) Other times they used body parts (a massive head, tail, etc). There are a lot of behind the scenes images on Google. Check them out, they are very interesting.
Impressive visual effects for the time. Aside from the whale itself, they even modeled the whale boats with little men rowing inside them. It would be interesting to see a making-of doc that explains how they created all the effects.
Fantastic. Great acting from ahab here absolutely
better than the majority of the movies nowadays.
Better than ALL the movies nowadays!
One of the best actors/movies of my life!!
I like this one far more than the one Patrick Stewart did. Stewart is a fine actor but you can't compete with a classic like this.
They call me Ismael
IMO, the Stewart film was inferior in just about every way.
Isaac and Ishmael, easily confused
Agreed but then, that's why they copied it.
Call me Ishmael, without "they"...
@@kourtourafi Thank you 👍
I’ve liked that movie ever since I watched it as a kid. Gregory Peck as Ahab is great casting.
Fun fact: Gregory Peck reappeared in another reboot of MOBY DICK. This time Peck played the town minister and Patrick Stewart played Captain Ahab, which is interesting because Stewart recited many lines from MOBY DICK when he played Captain Picard.
Ricardo Montalban played Khan Noonien Singh who also recited many lines from MOBY DICK. In this case Admiral Kirk was the white whale and Khan was Ahab.
It's his voice. Imagine having Gregory Peck, pissed off and layin into you. Scary!
This movie scared the heck out of me as a kid. When I finally understood the concept of death. Didn't sleep well that night or several after.
Do a double feature sometime of this film and Peck's other nautical adventure, Horatio Hornblower, and you will see his versatility.
@@HerrEllsworth Now if we're talking about Gregory Peck nautical adventures, then we have to include,
HORATIO HORNBLOWER.
MOBY DICK.
ON THE BEACH.
THE WORLD IN HIS ARMS.
I like it when Peck plays a lawyer in;
CAPE FEAR.
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
色々リメイクされましたがやはりこれが最高ですね🎥☺️Ｇペックの名演も最高ですね😁
a man's gotta know his limitations
When seeking revenge, prepare to dig two graves.
Magnum force and for your eyes only?
2:58 Ricardo Montalban said it best
@@leoperidot482I have a shovel
@@deitchj003 The Hoof …
For the time this film came out it's still a classic great actors even the special effects were good for the time very good story telling love this film always. 📽📽📽🎬🎬🎬📽📽
2:30 The whale’s like “you just don’t know when to fucking quit do you?”
🤣🤣😂😂😅.....
It’s worth knowing that in the book Moby Dick took Ahab’s leg… twice
The first time made him get all of this obsession on killing the whale
The second time was during the Pequod’s second hunting day on Moby Dick, destroying his prostatic leg and taking Ahab’s allie during it’s hunt, Parse
Wow !! Insanely Great Movie ,... it's right there with jaws and the Quint scene !!
Gregory Peck is such an amazing actor! Great in this and great as Lincoln on The Blue and The Gray.
A classic movie based on a classic novel, based itself on the real life plight of The Essex. Gregory Peck delivered a phenomenal Captain Ahab. I saw it on the TV in the sixties and was blown away by it. I read the novel years later, which remains one of my favourite novels of all time. the movie still stands up, even after sixty-eight years. It was made the year before I was born.
Very good job fellows!! Tour de force for Gregory Peck. I watched the entire movie just studying his every move, facial expression and every word! One of the most powerful performances from an actor I've ever seen. Take away everything else and just his acting would be worth the watch.
The original Shadow of the Colossus.
Rented this from my public library on VHS in 5th grade (2002) and it still leaves an impression on me to this day.
This film and To Kill a Mockingbird r my fave Gregory Peck movies
Wowwwww!!!! This final scene is epic!! Gregory Peck is the man!
I first saw this on TV around 1960. It was great in black and white then and better in color now.
WHALE 100, AHAB AND CREW NOTHING!! What a magnificent performance by the great Gregory Peck!! Intensity, rage, and obsession rarely if ever matched in cinematic history. Ricardo Montalban's reprise of these same lines years later seems lifeless by comparison. Peck has always been my favorite film star in terms of what he embodies on screen. In this fabulous film, his obsession drags himself and his poor crew into the brink depths. Each man martyred for a twisted ideal. What an actor. What a film!!
This movie blew my mind as a child
Almost every time ,poetry is the spoken word. Visually ,this scene is poetry .....
Outstanding film. Just as I’ve always remembered it as a kid 50 years ago. And thought of it for as many years since. Ahab. Roped to, and drown by the White Whale Moby Dick!
Still strikes immense fear in me to this day.
Thls was one of my favorite books. This old film was also wonderful for it's time. The lesson in this film is that hate can kill you and those around you.
Grande Gregory Peck. Questo film lo vidi da bambino, restai affascinato..👏🏻👏🏻🐳
Good film and an outstanding novel. Regardless of your feelings you had to be one brave man to go to circle the globe, to the center of the deepest parts of the ocean, get in a row boat and hunt a 60 ton, bull Spermacetti whale.
In the novel the mysterious Arab mate was the one tied to the whale.
Un clásico del cine, me llevé una sorpresa al conocer que se había rodado en la isla de Gran Canaria, los carpinteros del muelle tuvieron bastante trabajo. Gracias un saludo 🇮🇨🇪🇸
When acting was Oscar worthy now it’s all a circus with silly stunts for more views
lol this was incredible overacting.
And cgi
Nobody acts like this in real life.
It's all computer graphics now. Actors in a green room The rest it's all graphics now days
@@manuelgallardo7694 that what this was too. You think that was a real whale?
I always felt sympathy for the whale, even as a teenager when I first read the novel.
Yup, that's like getting mad at a tiger who attacks his trainer. All it was doing was being a tiger.
Naturally, the whale was the one who was attacked and therefore had the right to strike back and did so with a vengence of his own.
I was sympathetic towards the whale ever since I saw him portrayed as "Dopey Mick" in a "Beano" comic strip.
@@stesilaus1688 There's a movie called, ORCA where the killer whale goes after the hunter who killed its mate and offspring. Can't we all get along?
I like the stories where the roles are reversed. The animal becomes the apex predator over man. Most of the time man wins out, except in PLANET OF THE APES.
@@stesilaus1688, what about the Tom & Jerry cartoon “Dicky Moe”?
Having spent a lot of time on the water and read the book, I still remember how hard this scene hit me as a young child.
You didn't read it. Why lie to strangers?
That scene at the end triggered my PTSD. My buddies girlfriend was a biggie as well, and once when she did a cannon ball off the high board All I remember is the air mattress getting sucked down in the giant hole in the water where she landed.
One of the epic films of all time
Ahab was definitely what old sailors called "bucking a head wind ". (Insane)
My English Class finished watching the movie today. Credit to everyone that made this film for the excellent climax & ending.
"From Hell's heart, I stabbeth at thee!! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!!"
Oh boy! I haven’t seen this since 1956, when my dad took us into Hartford to see it. He was a graduate student then, and drove an intercity bus part time, and took the family (6 of us) using the bus.
Astonishing performance by my favorite movie star. Gregory Peck to me embodies everything good about what Hollywood should represent. Most of all in this classic tale of nature overmatching man. The crazed torment of Ahab pours through in every word he utters. Star Trek The Wrath of Khan borrowed Ahabs line. In all respect to Ricardo Montalban, Peck is an actor of far greater depth. He should have won the Academy Award in a walk for this glorious performance. "For hates sake, I stab at thee!" And for insanitys sake as well. Peck should gave had two statues to his honor. As good or better than his Atticus Finch. Only in a strange, more twisted way.
Real sportsman. He's dead yet he beckons. 😂
In his younger days my Uncle Jimmy volunteered for the lifeboat crew at his local station. This was in Pembrokeshire. He told me a story that on the morning after a wild storm his crew was called out. Not to save someone in peril, but to search for a fibreglass whale that had broken free in the storm. The whale was found and returned to those making this film. Its attempt at escape failed, it seems.
When this came on tv . The world stopped!
Yep I remember..
I've always wondered if, at the end, Starbuck finally succumbed to Ahab's madness, or if, when he gave the last command to pursue Moby Dick, he was actually just holding fast to his previously stated belief that MD was just a beast, not a devil.
for starbuck who thinks ahab has committed blasphemy by raising his fist to god the reaction of the crew seeing ahab beckon thus making the whole hunt and the whale supernatural is too much.to him its an even worse blaphsemy to think the whale sent by god or the devil! its just a whale a monstrous big one but a whale! he holds to his strict beliefs til the end never giving in to ahabs madness.
Ahab's obsession with revenge took his life after all.
He was fine - opened coffee shops all over the world.
Very good!
@@mikekemp9877 Excellent reply.👍
Great movie, based on the tragic story of the whaler Essex. That was nice little Nantucket sleigh ride.
Magnificent!
Masterpiece.
Absolutely insane movie...Gregory Peck is mesmerising as Ahab.
Filmed off the Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork.
Love this ending. Starbuck, the previously reluctant pursuer of Moby Dick, now takes on Ahab's obsession. The final lines are classic.
I don't think that it was an obsession with Starbuck, like it was with Ahab. Starbuck views Moby Dick as only a whale and they are whaling men.
@@anthonyjulianelle6695 The dynamic also changes now that Ahab is dead. Ahab's obsession died with him, and to Starbuck, Moby Dick is now "just a whale".
Greg Peck....one of my favorite actors ...
Mine too. He always came off as a common man doing uncommon things in movies. Which is why I always detested John Wayne.
I haven't seen this in years but it gave me nightmares then after seeing this probably will again but worth cause this was a damn good movie
I like how STAR TREK is notorious for stealing quotes from MOBY DICK. Both Khan Noonien Singh and Captain Picard used quotes from the novel.
Great effects for '56.
Sometimes the lack of music intensifies a scene a lot, like in this scene for example.
Yep. Spielberg talks about using no music during the shark attacks in Jaws. The music comes before (to build suspense) and after. I think it works well here too.
Glory be, Mandolindley Road Show. The sound effects you've uploaded here are astounding and breathtaking as if we're watching live Moby Dick is tormented by Captain Ahab. Thunder and Hell, you've done a superb service for impressing me with your high stereo resonance in this beloved movie classic.
Thank you. This was a labor of love for me. My favorite film ever.
Legend: a classic beyond classics!
A stunning & brilliant film which has stood the test of time, as good now as it was when it was first made. Btw, l was on Moby Dicks side.
Me too. I bet most people would be nowadays.
Still the premier film interpretation of Melville's tale.
Great story Great actor indeed
C'est magnifique.
One my Favourite films as a boy. Classic story, brilliant film.
Great dialog Ray Bradbury.
A great book and great movie
He beckons.... Even dead, Ahab beckons.
An inmortal novel by Herman Melville, an amazing movie and maybe the best role of Mr Peck in all his career.
Visual effects are great in this old masterpiece if we take into consideration this movie is from 1956. It feels better than some of the nowadays CGI
I think we are going to need a bigger boat .. Ops , wrong film 😂😂
Best version ever. Remakes should be forbiden.
No forgotten .....
This movie was a remake of the book. Oops.
Movie blew me away as a kid. Still has the same effect all these years later. Even though the special effects were primitive for its day, the film still holds its own and Gregory Peck was the standard for Ahab.
I still can't stomach this scene after so many years. Poor Starbuck, faithful to the end. Poor Starbuck, ever the fool. 10 times an ass, 10 times a mule.
He survived to seek his fortune on land selling coffee. Such fighting resilience as never seen since.
1000 times as guilty as all those primitive minds advocate to the art of depredation and killing. A well deserved punishment.
"From hell's heart, I stab at thee!! For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee!! Oh damned whale!!!"
The direction is surprising for the time, you don't need CGI to tell a good story, this is art, totally handmade, just like Planet Krypton when it appears on the screen in Superman the movie, exciting and visceral!
Marvelous book & movie. His obsession with Moby
“To the last I grapple with thee; from Hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee”
The way he shouts "He rises!" and the violence Moby Dick bursts up from the deep... It's a man vs God moment
One pissed off whale. This movie was terrifying to me, watched with my father in the basement, on black and white. Then watched Seahunt. Loyd Bridges. Thanks from.St. Paul Minnesota.
i love how the birds like just dont care