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The Sea Beast is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Millard Webb, starring John Barrymore, Dolores Costello and George O'Hara. The film was a major commercial success and one of the biggest pictures of 1926 becoming Warner Brothers' highest grossing film. The Sea Beast is the first adaptation of the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, a story about a monomaniacal hunt for a great white whale. However, the film alters the novel's plotline by establishing prequel and sequel elements that are not in the original story—such as the romancing of Esther and Ahab's safe return, respectively—and substitutes a happy ending for Melville's original tragic one. Some of the characters in the film do not appear in Melville's original novel.
Original Release
01/15/1926
US Release
01/15/1926
Cast
Name | Character |
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John Barrymore | Captain Ahab Ceeley |
Dolores Costello | Esther Harper |
George O'Hara | Derek Ceeley |
Mike Donlin | Flask |
Sam Baker | Queequeeq |
George Berrell | Perth (as George Burrell) / Perth |
Sam Allen | Captain |
Frank Nelson | Stubbs |
Mathilde Comont | Mula |
James O. Barrows | Rev. Harper |
Directors
Writers
Herman Melville, Bess Meredyth, Jack Wagner, Rupert Hughes
Cast
Name | Character |
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John Barrymore | Captain Ahab Ceeley |
Dolores Costello | Esther Harper |
George O'Hara | Derek Ceeley |
Mike Donlin | Flask |
Sam Baker | Queequeeq |
George Berrell | Perth (as George Burrell) / Perth |
Sam Allen | Captain |
Frank Nelson | Stubbs |
Mathilde Comont | Mula |
James O. Barrows | Rev. Harper |
Vadim Uraneff | Pip |
Sôjin Kamiyama | Fedallah (as Sojin) / Fedallah |
Frank Hagney | Daggoo |
Joyzelle Joyner | Dancer in prologue |
Leonora Summers | Undetermined Role |