Moby Dick

Duration: 22 min
Release date: 2000-05-01
IMDB

Moby Dick is an unfinished film by Orson Welles, filmed in 1971. It is not to be confused with the incomplete (and now lost) 1955 film Welles made of his meta-play Moby Dick—Rehearsed, or with Moby Dick (1956 film), in which Welles played a supporting role. The film consists of readings by Welles from the book Moby Dick, shot against a blue background with various optical illusions to give the impression of being at sea. It was made during a break in the filming of The Other Side of the Wind. There is some ambiguity about what Welles intended to do with the footage, and how he was going to compile it. It remained unedited in his lifetime.

Drama

Moby Dick

Similar Films

  • Aed (Garden)
  • Blake: The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell
  • Smilla's Sense of Snow
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • Clear and Present Danger
  • Wuthering Heights
  • Thank You for Smoking
  • La Guerre des boutons
  • The Age of Innocence
  • The Muppet Christmas Carol
  • Shadowlands
  • No Escape
  • La Reine Margot
  • Factotum
  • Marathon Man
  • Death and the Maiden
  • The Scarlet Letter
  • Supportern
  • Tomer en Elias

NextFilm 2026