Moby Dick – John Barrymore DVD

In this extremely loose adaptation of Melville’s classic novel, Ahab is revealed initially not as a bitter and vengeful madman, but as a bit of a lovable scamp.

Trivia

Although the film was initially recorded on Vitaphone and intended for disc accompaniment, by the time of its release, so many theatres had opted for sound-on-film, that the opening credits had to be redone, and the image had to be cropped off the left side, in order to accommodate the sound-on-film system track, which was, by then, replacing the soon to be obsolete Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, and required a slightly narrower picture image as a result.