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Moby Dick

film by Bacon [1930]

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In Lloyd Bacon: Warner Brothers
…the standard “Am I Blue?” Moby Dick was the most enduring of Bacon’s efforts in 1930, with John Barrymore in the role of Captain Ahab. Over the next two years, Bacon helmed 11 films, ranging from the largely forgettable productions 50 Million Frenchmen and Gold Dust Gertie (both 1931), a…
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role of Barrymore

In John Barrymore
… (1920), The Beloved Rogue (1927), Moby Dick (1930), Rasputin and the Empress (1932; the only film in which Barrymore appeared with his siblings), Grand Hotel (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Counsellor-at-Law (1933), Romeo and Juliet (1936), and The Great Profile (1940), in which he lampooned his own
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