Moby Dick

Captain Ahab embarks on an obsessive quest to hunt the great white whale that cost him his leg, drawing his crew towards an increasingly perilous fate.

One of Ray Bradbury's most significant Hollywood projects, Moby Dick saw him adapt Herman Melville's sprawling novel into a screenplay for legendary director John Huston. The assignment took Bradbury to Ireland, where he worked closely with Huston during a famously intense and often difficult writing process.

Starring Gregory Peck as Ahab, the film remains one of the most celebrated literary adaptations of its era. Bradbury later chronicled the experience in Green Shadows, White Whale, turning the production itself into part of his own literary mythology.