Poster of Moby Dick

Moby Dick

Plot: An unfinished 1971 film project in which Orson Welles performs readings from Moby Dick against a minimalist blue-screen setting, conceived as a stylized, abstract adaptation but never edited or completed. (Note: Not to be confused with Welles’s separate 1955 filmed stage project Moby Dick—Rehearsed
Release Date: Monday, May 1 2000
25 years ago
Genres: Drama
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Cast

Portrait of Orson WellesOrson Welles. Orson Welles would have been no older than 70 in Moby Dick as 'Captain Ahab / Starbuck / Ishmael (archive footage)'.
Birthday: Thu, May 06 1915 –
Died: Thu, Oct 10 1985

Crew

Portrait of Orson WellesOrson Welles. Orson Welles would have been no older than 70 in Moby Dick as 'Director, Theatre Play, Editor'
Birthday: Thu, May 06 1915 –
Died: Thu, Oct 10 1985
Portrait of Gary GraverGary Graver. Gary Graver was 61 in Moby Dick as 'Director of Photography'
Birthday: Wed, Jul 20 1938 –
Died: Thu, Nov 16 2006
Portrait of Herman MelvilleHerman Melville. Herman Melville would have been no older than 72 in Moby Dick as 'Novel'
Birthday: Sun, Aug 01 1819 –
Died: Mon, Sep 28 1891