Moby Dick (1930 film)

Moby Dick is a 1930 American PreCode film from Warner Bros., directed by Lloyd Bacon, and starring John Barrymore and Joan Bennett. The film is a sound remake of the 1926 silent movie, The Sea Beast, which also starred Barrymore.

The film, just as The Sea Beast the previous 1926 silent version was, is an extremely free adaptation of the novel MobyDick by Herman Melville. It implements a prequel and sequel element to the story that did not exist in Melvilles novel. As an example of the changes found in the film, Captain Ahab is portrayed as a handsome romantic hero with a pretty girlfriend, but his evil brother manipulates the situation so that she will reject him. He also has both of his legs until he embarks on the voyage in which Moby Dick bites off one of them and he becomes consumed with revenge and embarks on the odyssey to kill the whale that maimed him. Ultimately, Ahab survives the ordeal, kills his stowaway brother as well as Moby Dick, and returns home to the woman who loves him.citation needed One foreign language version of the 1930 film of Moby Dick was produced. The German version was titled Dmon des Meeres and was directed by Michael Curtiz. ........

Source: Wikipedia