Overview
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.)
Fun facts
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Based on
Based on the novel Moby-Dick
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Gary Graver
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Herman MelvilleNovel
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 1, 2000
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom, France
Cast
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