The Sea Beast

Millard Webb, Warner Bros., 1926, from Moby-Dick, freely. John Barrymore as Ahab, Dolores Costello as a love interest Melville did not write, George O'Hara in support. Silent, a commercial hit for the studio. Webb turning the novel into a revenge romance with a whale. Barrymore's missing leg is a performance, not yet a literary duty. The first of the Melville adaptations; it is interested in Barrymore's face more than in the book.