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Moby Dick: Directed by John Huston. With Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice. The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
The captain of this ship begs Ahab to help search for the boat because it contained the captain's son. But Ahab, impatient to destroy Moby Dick, will not help search for the missing men. After ...
Captain Ahab: Captain Gardner, I seek the white whale, your own son's murderer. I am losing time... Goodbye, and fare thee well, I say. God help you, Captain Gardiner. Captain Gardiner: God forgive you, Captain Ahab. -- Captain Ahab. Captain Ahab: Blacksmith, I set ye a task. Take these harpoons and lances. Melt them down.
Captain Ahab > Starbuck Quote 5 Ahab seized a loaded musket from the rack (forming part of most South-Sea-men’s cabin furniture), and pointing it towards Starbuck, exclaimed: "There is one God that is Lord over the earth, and one Captain that is lord over the Pequod .
Captain Ahab Quote 9 The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung.
Moby-Dick Quotes With Page Numbers. “Call me Ishmael.”. ~Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Page 1. “Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially ...
Captain Ahab: one of the best whaling captains in Nantucket, the commander of the Pequod, and definitely a bit odd. He's got an Oldboy-style vendetta against a dang whale, after all. Late in the novel, Ahab begins to reminisce about how stark and lonely his life has been: he’s spent forty years working his way up on whaling ships, and only ...
