
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans(1927)
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.



John Barrymore
Ahab

Joan Bennett
Faith

Lloyd Hughes
Derek

Noble Johnson
Queequeg

Nigel De Brulier
Elijah

Walter Long
Stubbs

May Boley
Whale Oil Rosie

Tom O'Brien
Starbuck

Virginia Sale
Old Maid

John Ince
Rev. Mapple
Moby Dick is a adventure, drama, romance film released in 1930 exploring themes of mutiny, whale, harpoon, black and white, storm, pre-code. Directed by Lloyd Bacon, it stars John Barrymore, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Hughes. Herman Melville's mad Capt. Ahab (John Barrymore) spends years hunting the white whale that got his leg.
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The titular adventurer, after defying his parents to go to sea, survives a shipwreck and becomes a castaway on a deserted island for nearly thirty years, learning to build a new life from scratch, discovering companionship with a native man he names Friday, and eventually returning to civilisation a changed man, finding wealth and new challenges.

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