eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 3y1439 MOBY DICK candid 7.5x9.25 still 1956 Gregory Peck & John Huston on Herman Melville Square! Date Sold 3/14/2023Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 7 1/2" x 9 1/4" [19 x 23 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Moby Dick, the 1956 John Huston English/U.S. seafaring adventure thriller ("The Man- The Whale- The Vengeance- The Mightiest Adventure Ever Seen!"; "Never such a sight! Never such a might!"; "Captain Ahab The White Whale nearly destroyed him - and no one would rest till the White Whale was dead!"; "Ishmael Handsome, romantic - the look of a poet, the courage of a giant!"; "Starbuck He bet his fears and his faith against the fury of Captain Ahab!"; "Queequeg Cannibal-turned-harpooner - his fierce strength as strange as his mystic tattoo!"; "Father Mapple The blood-and-thunder preacher who roared his warnings to the waiting women!"; "Tashtego The silent Indian --- when hunting buffalo became too tame, he went after Moby Dick!"; "In all the world - in all the seas - in all adventure there is no might like the might of Moby Dick"; "Filmed with a spectacular new development in color by Technicolor"; "From the famed novel by Herman Melville"; "Screen Play by Ray Bradbury & John Huston") starring Gregory Peck (as Captain Ahab), Richard Basehart (as Ishmael), Leo Genn, Orson Welles (in an impressive cameo role, "as 'Father Mapple'"), Friedreich Ledebur (as Queeqeg), and Harry Andrews NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this great candid still, which measures 7 1/2" x 9 1/4" [19 x 23 cm] and has not been trimmed, shows Gregory Peck at a 3 day festival in New Bedford, Massachusetts, held just prior to the world premiere of this movie. In honor of it, New Bedford had parades, clambakes, "gams", and more, and they dedicated the library square in town as "Herman Melville Square", with Peck and Huston standing on both sides of the sign. Condition: very good to fine. Learn More about condition grades
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