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  1. Moby Dick is a 1930 American pre-Code film from Warner Bros., 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.

  2. Moby Dick: Directed by Lloyd Bacon. With John Barrymore, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Noble Johnson. In this extremely loose adaptation of Melville's classic novel, Ahab is revealed initially not as a bitter and vengeful madman, but as a bit of a lovable scamp.

    • (641)
    • Adventure, Drama
    • Lloyd Bacon
    • 1930-09-20
  3. Because Esther favors his brother, Derek pushes Ahab overboard on a whaling trip; Ahab's leg is chewed off by Moby Dick, a white whale; and he returns to Esther a broken and embittered man. Ahab, believing that Esther no longer loves him, becomes captain of a whaler and obsessively sets out to kill Moby Dick.

    • Lloyd Bacon
    • John Barrymore
  4. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › 1080898-moby_dickMoby Dick | Rotten Tomatoes

    Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.

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    • John Barrymore
    • Lloyd Bacon
    • Adventure
  5. In this extremely loose adaptation of Melville's classic novel, Ahab is revealed initially not as a bitter and vengeful madman, but as a bit of a lovable scamp. Ashore in New Bedford, he meets and falls for Faith Mapple, daughter of the local minister and beloved of Ahab's brother Derek.

  6. Directed by Lloyd Bacon. Thar she blows! Herman Melville’s mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.

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  8. Returning to the sea, Ahab spends the next seven years searching for the great white whale Moby Dick, obsessed with getting revenge on the creature that took his leg and ruined his life. In addition to rewriting the famous first lines of the novel, in this version of Moby Dick, Ishmael doesn't even appear.