Moby Dick (film, 1956)

Moby Dick
Moby Dick
	Gregory Peck kao kapetan Ahab u sceni filma
Režija	John Huston
Producent	pridruženi producenti:; Jack Clayton; Lee Katz; ko-producent:; Vaughn N. Dean; producent:; John Huston;
Scenario	Ray Bradbury; John Huston;
Predložak	Moby-Dick; autor:; Herman Melville;
Uloge	Gregory Peck; Richard Basehart; Leo Genn; Orson Welles;
Muzika	Philip Sainton
Fotografija	Oswald Morris
Montaža	Russell Lloyd
Studio	Moulin Productions
Distribucija	Warner Bros.
Datum(i) premijere	27. 6. 1956
Trajanje	116 min.
Zemlja	Sjedinjene Države
Jezik	engleski
Budžet	4,500,000 US$
Bruto prihod	5,2 mil. $ (SAD)

Moby Dick je američki igrani film snimljen 1956. u režiji Johna Hustona. Po žanru je kombinacija drame i pustolovnog filma, a predstavlja adaptaciju istoimenog romana Hermana Melvillea. Radnja započinje 1840-ih u Novoj Engleskoj i prikazuje kako posada kitolovca Pequod odlazi na more kako bi uhvatila velikog bijelog kita sa čime je opsjednut obogaljeni kapetan Ahab (čiji lik tumači Gregory Peck).

Moby Dick je predstavljao dotada najvjerniju adaptaciju Melvilleovog romana, ali također jedan od najskupljih i najambicioznijih projekata u tadašnjem Hollywoodu, koji se snimao u nekoliko zemalja. Huston, koji je producirao film, godinama ga je pokušavao snimiti, originalno namijenivši glavnu ulogu svom ocu Walteru, koji je, međutim umro. Zbog toga je angažiran Gregory Peck sa kojim se, međutim, nije slagao na setu. Još veći su problemi bili sa scenaristom Rayem Bradburyjem, koji je kasnije tvrdio kako se Huston tiranski odnosio prema članovima ekipe i o tome napisao 1992. godine napisao roman Green Shadows, White Whale.

Moby Dick je na kraju završio kao veliki komercijalni promašaj, a Peck i Huston su se trajno posvađali. Steven Spielberg ga je, međutim, djelomično koristio kao inspiraciju za svoj film Ralje te bez uspjeha pokušao ishoditi dozvolu da koristi njegove scene.

Uloge

Gregory Peck ... Kapetan Ahab
Richard Basehart ... Ishmael
Leo Genn ... Starbuck
James Robertson Justice ... Kapetan Boomer
Harry Andrews ... Stubb
Bernard Miles ... Manac
Noel Purcell ... Brodski tesar
Edric Connor ... Daggoo
Mervyn Johns ... Peleg
Joseph Tomelty ... Peter Coffin
Francis de Wolff ... Kapetan Gardiner
Philip Stainton ... Bildad
Royal Dano ... Elijah
Seamus Kelly ... Flask
Friedrich von Ledebur ... Queequeg
Orson Welles ... Otac Mapple
Tamba Allenby ... Pip (van špice)
Tom Clegg ... Tashtego (van špice)
Ted Howard ... Perth (van špice)
John Huston ... glas Petera Coffina i Pequodovog izviđača (van špice)

Izvori

↑ „The Top Box-Office Hits of 1956”. Variety Weekly. 2 January 1957.

Literatura

Mirisch, Walter (2008). I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin. ISBN 0-299-22640-9.

Vanjske veze

[1] „The Top Box-Office Hits of 1956”. Variety Weekly. 2 January 1957.

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p r u Filmovi koje je režirao John Huston
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1950-e	The Asphalt Jungle (1950) The Red Badge of Courage (1951) The African Queen (1951) Moulin Rouge (1952) Beat the Devil (1953) Moby Dick (1956) Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958) The Roots of Heaven (1958)
1960-e	The Unforgiven (1960) The Misfits (1961) Freud: The Secret Passion (1962) The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) The Night of the Iguana (1964) The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) Casino Royale (1967) Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) Sinful Davey (1969) A Walk with Love and Death (1969)
1970-e	The Kremlin Letter (1970) Fat City (1972) The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) The Mackintosh Man (1973) The Man Who Would Be King (1975) Wise Blood (1979)
1980-e	Phobia (1980) Victory (1981) Annie (1982) Under the Volcano (1984) Prizzi's Honor (1985) The Dead (1987)

p r u Djela čiji je autor Ray Bradbury
Romani	The Martian Chronicles (1950) Fahrenheit 451 (1953) Dandelion Wine (1957) Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) The Halloween Tree (1972) Death Is a Lonely Business (1985) A Graveyard for Lunatics (1990) Green Shadows, White Whale (1992) From the Dust Returned (2001) Let's All Kill Constance (2002) Farewell Summer (2006)
Novele	"The Scythe" (1943) "Frost and Fire" (1946) "The Million Year Picnic" (1946) "The Small Assassin" (1946) "I See You Never" (1947) "Fever Dream" (1948) "The Fruit at the Bottom of the Bowl" (1948) "The Long Years" (1948) "Mars Is Heaven!" (1948) "Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed" (1949) "The Exiles" (1949) "Marionettes, Inc." (1949) "The Long Rain" (1950) "The Rocket" (1950) "There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950) "The Veldt" (1950) "Ylla" (1950) "Embroidery" (1951) "The Fog Horn" (1951) "Here There Be Tygers" (1951) "The Pedestrian" (1951) "The April Witch" (1952) "A Sound of Thunder" (1952) "The Wilderness" (1952) "The Flying Machine" (1953) "The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind" (1953) "The Meadow" (1953) "The Murderer" (1953) "Sun and Shadow" (1953) "All Summer in a Day" (1954) "The Dragon" (1955) "The Aqueduct" (1979) "Banshee" (1984) "The Toynbee Convector" (1984) "Is That You, Herb?" (2004)
Zbirke	Dark Carnival (1947) The Mummies of Guanajuato (1947) The Illustrated Man (1951) The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953) The October Country (1955) A Medicine for Melancholy (1959) The Day It Rained Forever (1959) The Small Assassin (1962) R Is for Rocket (1962) The Machineries of Joy (1964) The Autumn People (1965) The Vintage Bradbury (1965) Tomorrow Midnight (1966) S Is for Space (1966) Twice 22 (1966) I Sing the Body Electric (1969) Ray Bradbury (1975) Long After Midnight (1976) The Fog Horn & Other Stories (1979) The Last Circus and the Electrocution (1980) The Stories of Ray Bradbury (1980) The Fog Horn and Other Stories (1980) Dinosaur Tales (1983) A Memory of Murder (1984) The Toynbee Convector (1988) Classic Stories 1 (1990) Classic Stories 2 (1990) The Parrot Who Met Papa (1991) Selected from Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed (1991) Quicker Than the Eye (1996) Driving Blind (1997) Ray Bradbury Collected Short Stories (2001) One More for the Road (2002) Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales (2003) Is That You, Herb? (2003) The Cat's Pajamas: Stories (2004) A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories (2005) The Dragon Who Ate His Tail (2007) Summer Morning, Summer Night (2007) A Pleasure to Burn (2010) The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury (2011)
Drame	The Flying Machine: A One-Act Play for Three Men (1953) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays (1972) Pillar of Fire and Other Plays (1975) The Martian Chronicles (1986) The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1986) Fahrenheit 451 (1986) Dandelion Wine (1988) The Veldt (1988)
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Ostalo	Zen in the Art of Writing (1990) It Came from Outer Space (knjiga) (2003)
Srodno	Spaceship Earth Bradbury Landing Bradburyjeva nagrada Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury (video-spot, 2010)