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Ray Bradbury's "Green Shadows, White Whale" is a semi-fictional account of his writing of the screen [...]	D
Gregory Peck disliked his performance as Captain Ahab so much that even nearly 20 years later, he re [...]	D
John Huston also dubbed the voice of the lookout who plunges into the sea.	D
In a 1967 "Films in Review" interview, Gregory Peck voiced his dissatisfaction with John Huston's di [...]	D
Gregory Peck's few attempts to play a villain were considered unsuccessful, perhaps because the publ [...]	D
The whale "Moby Dick" was an 85-foot-long, steel-reinforced, rubberized construction. Two full model [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Most [...]	D
Part of the movie was filmed in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. Almost 60 years later, part of Heart o [...]	D
Gregory Peck was later told by a Warner Brothers insider that John Huston had "conned" him into play [...]	D
Gregory Peck initially blamed the poor reviews of his performance on the script, which he felt conta [...]	D
Starbuck's Coffee franchise took its name from the character Starbuck of the Pequod crew.	D
One of the myths circulating about this film is that it was "filmed on location". While there is ple [...]	D
Orson Welles' one-scene cameo helped to fund his stage production of the very same story.	D
The ship captained by Captain Boomer (James Robertson Justice) is the 'Samuel Enderby'. Samuel Ender [...]	D
Although Ishmael is supposed to be in his twenties, Richard Basehart was actually forty when the fil [...]	D
Walter Mirisch recalls that John Huston insisted on filming aboard an actual ship at sea. Stormy con [...]	D
The character Lieutenant Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica (1978) and the following TV series, is nam [...]	D
Orson Welles suffered from stage fright while filming Father Mapple's sermon. To quell the actor's n [...]	D
John Huston said that this was the most difficult movie he ever directed.	D
Montgomery Clift was interested in the role of Ishmael.	D
Richard Basehart (Ishmael) later starred in Viaggio in fondo al mare: The Ghost of Moby Dick (1964), [...]	D
Gregory Peck reproached director John Huston to accept endless rain shooting condition too philosoph [...]	D
Roald Dahl did some reworking of the script.	D
Queequeg, who in the novel is a member of a Polynesian tribe, is played by Austrian actor Friedrich [...]	D
The Mirisch brothers produced this film through Moulin Productions, and distributed the film through [...]	D
The character of Peter Coffin, the innkeeper, played by Joseph Tomelty, was dubbed by director John [...]	D
Director John Huston commissioned the filming of a real whale hunt off Madeira and used the bloody s [...]	D
Captain Ahab forecasts the whereabouts of Moby Dick at Bikini Atoll, which he points out on a chart. [...]	D
Most of the filming took place in 1954, although the movie was not released until 1956.	D
Fredric March was considered for the role of Ahab.	D
When Ishmael is walking into the Youghal. County Cork, location of New Bedford in the opening scene, [...]	D
Gregory Peck, who did not use a double, injured his kneecap, Richard Basehart broke his ankle while [...]	D
Like the source novel, the movie starts with the line "Call me Ishmael." This is the only time the p [...]	D
The sequence in which Ishmael prevents Queequeg from committing suicide by reminding him of his prom [...]	D
John Huston often told derogatory stories about Ray Bradbury, the screenwriter, laughingly saying th [...]	D
Gregory Peck told later that John Huston was not a good director concerning the help he gave to acto [...]	D
Saint Elmo's Fire is a something seen during thunderstorms when the ground underneath the storm is e [...]	D
Fedallah, Ahab's servant from the book, was eliminated from the film. His role was merged with Queeq [...]	D
When Starbuck enters the captain's cabin and tells Ahab that he should get some sleep, Ahab replies [...]	D
John Huston shopped the film around Hollywood for three years before United Artists and Moulin Produ [...]	D
One of Morgan Freeman's favorite films.	D
John Huston decided to take up residence in Ireland after filming "Moby Dick". It would be one of se [...]	D
The town of Youghal Co. Cork in Ireland was one of the locations used for filming. A pub in the town [...]	D
Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster, John Wayne and Marlon Brando were considered for Captain A [...]	D
To create the desaturated pastel effect image of the movie, director of photography Oswald Morris us [...]	D
Orson Welles wrote his own scenes, much to director John Huston's encouragement.	D
Gregory Peck stayed with a Vicar and his wife on location in Fishguard during filming. Peck had such [...]	D
Over the years, John Huston and Gregory Peck, among others, have talked about how during filming on [...]	D
Woody Strode was strongly considered for the role of Queequeg, but could not get away from the set o [...]	D
John Huston originally wanted to cast his father Walter Huston as Captain Ahab, but by the time the [...]	D
42 years after Gregory Peck starred as Captain Ahab in this movie, he played the role of Father Mapp [...]	D
The fake white whale used in the film kept sinking, breaking, etc., which meant that it had to be co [...]	D
John Huston once considered casting Orson Welles as Captain Ahab.	D
When John Huston first met Ray Bradbury to discuss writing the screenplay, Bradbury admitted, "I've [...]	D

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Blood/holes in Moby Dick change when Ahab stabs him.	D
When Starbuck removes a pistol from the wall, he pulls the hammer back slightly, then replaces it an [...]	D
When the white whale rams the ship, the main mast breaks and comes down, crow's-nest and all, hittin [...]	D
When the date is stated as 9 April 1842, the moon is seen as just past full. In reality, is was only [...]	D
During the storm Stubb is without his Scottish cap. When the St. Elmo's fire is seen, he is suddenly [...]	D
Just before Ishmael and Queequeg meet Elijah, they walk past a moored ship which has a Plimsoll mark [...]	D
During the final battle between the whalers and Moby Dick, the weather goes from grey and foggy to b [...]	D
When Pip is lost at sea and is supposed to be bobbing around in the waves, he is obviously standing [...]	D
Early at sea (on the Cape Verde grounds) the first whale is spotted and then harpooned by harpooners [...]	D
The way the ship was moved away from the pier was incorrect. The crew is shown hauling a line from t [...]	D
During the first time that Ahab bespeaks the crew, a shot of the crew shows Tashtego mouthing the wo [...]	D
Airplane contrails are visible in the background when Starbuck plans to shoot Ahab.	D
At the beginning of the voyage, Ahab is heard walking on deck while the entire crew is in their bunk [...]	D
Moby Dick's size changes from scene to scene. In the early scenes it looks almost bigger than the sh [...]	D
During the scene when the masts and Ahab's harpoon are covered with St. Elmo's fire, the luminous ph [...]	D
When Ishmael first arrives at the pub, he is not seen paying for the rum he ordered.	D
The Pequod enters the waters near Bikini at new moon, where Ahab believes the white whale will be. T [...]	D
In the scenes with the Quaker characters, despite Herman Melville's correct use of "thee" and "thou, [...]	D
When Captain Ahab repeatedly plunges his harpoon into Moby Dick, and pivots it back and forth freely [...]	D
Scenes shot on the deck of the ship have a background painted to look like the sky. Joints in the pa [...]	D
The flag shown at the start of the voyage appears to be a 25 star flag that was used between 1822 an [...]	D
Captain Ahab, who has seen Moby Dick once before, describes him as having a crooked jaw ("sickle-sha [...]	D

Frase

Ishmael: [seeing Moby Dick for the first time] Is [...]	D
Father Mapple: Delight is to him who coming to day [...]	D
Captain Ahab: Captain Gardner, I seek the white wh [...]	D
Ishmael: [in voiceover, about Starbuck] His courag [...]	D
Ishmael: [in voice-over narration] He did not feel [...]	D
Starbuck, first mate: To be enraged with a dumb br [...]	D
Captain Ahab: I don't give reasons. I give orders!	D
Starbuck, first mate: It's late; you should turn i [...]	D
Pip: That ain't no whale; that a great white god.	D
Captain Ahab: I'll follow him around the Horn, and [...]	D
Captain Ahab: From hell's heart I stab at thee; fo [...]	D
[last lines] Ishmael: [voiceover] The coffin. Dro [...]	D
Ishmael: Ehhhh, you can't fool us; it's the easies [...]	D
Captain Ahab: Blacksmith, I set ye a task. Take th [...]	D
Captain Ahab: Birds... the birds... He rises!	D
Starbuck, first mate: [to Stubb and Flask] It is a [...]	D
Ishmael: [in voice-over narration] Long days and n [...]	D
Ishmael: Queequeg, such behavior isn't Christian. [...]	D
[first lines] Ishmael: [voiceover] Call me Ishmae [...]	D
Starbuck, first mate: It is our task in life to ki [...]	D
Captain Ahab: By heavens man, we are turned round [...]	D

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