Moby Dick

Director Franc Roddam and co-scripter Anton Diether adapted Herman Melville's 1851 classic for this four-hour TV miniseries sea adventure. Ishmael (Henry Thomas) ignores the warnings of dockside prophet Elijah (Bruce Spence) and joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod. Ismael befriends Polynesian ...more

Captain Ahab roams the seas again in this 1998 TV miniseries. Like the 1956 film version, it leaves the main theme of the novel (Ahab's relentless pursuit of the Great Unknown, symbolized by the whale) essentially intact. Patrick Stewart plays a wildly emotional Ahab in this newest version. From start to finish, Stewart's Ahab fulminates with zealotry, whether soliloquizing about the great leviathan that took his leg or exhorting his crew to hunt him down. Scars emboss his face, his eyes burn ...more