Moby Dick

22m
Drama
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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.)

Cast

Orson Welles
Captain Ahab / Starbuck / Ishmael (archive footage)

Crew

Orson Welles
Director, Editor, Theatre Play
Herman Melville
Novel
Gary Graver
Director of Photography

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