Could somebody please explain to me . . .

Good for you. I totally agree.

A number of critics at that time got on Peck's case for being too "wooden" in his acting roles. Seems they can't tell the difference between wooden and dignified. At any rate, his acting and various roles have always been fine with me. Every movie star makes clunkers. But even Peck's clunkers,(if any) are done with class and dignity. Watching him in perhaps his best film, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is pure joy.



"So those of us who's names appear there are damned, Sir Thomas?" "I have no window to look into another man's soul. I condemn no one."

I agree. No one could have done a better job than Gregory Peck! His performance was incredible.

Peck has always been a cerebral actor, only occasionaly breaking into violent emotion in his films. As Ahab, Peck smoulders dangerously for the bulk of the film and cuts loose only when he is riding Moby Dick. As a result the final sequence is made more potent than if Peck carried on as a raging lunatic through the movie.

You could make a case that he was too restrained, and that would be valid. I've seen the movie at least a dozen times and there are moments when I would like to have seen him "freak out" just to break the outer shell of the man.

My biggest regret is that George C. Scott was never cast in a remake of Moby Dick. Scott was able to portray inner rage and uncontrollable violence at the click of a camera. His Ahab would have been something to see.


To God There Is No Zero. I Still Exist.

I thought that the cast all-around was very good.

That fiery sermon by Orson Welles as Father Mapple was incredible! I was not expecting that when I first saw this film!