Moby Dick News

IMAGES Joan Plowright and her husband, Sir Laurence Olivier, 1977.[Credits : Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis] Main English actress in full Joan Anne Plowright born October 28, 1929, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England English dramatic actress.

Bronte's gothic tale of moors madness gets the William Wyler treatment in this classic movie version starring Merle Oberon as Cathy and Laurence Olivier as Heathcliffe.

Herbert Kloiber is once again shipping out to sea with a new adaptation of a classic maritime tale.

It's rare that I look at a TV project and wish that it were a $100m theatrical production instead of a much smaller television affair.

Is Melville's Moby-Dick the ultimate American novel? In an exclusive essay, Greil Marcus argues that even today, it haunts a nation's thoughts and dreams Moby Dick; 2hrs 30mins.

William Hurt and Ethan Hawke will star in a $25.5 million TV adaptation of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" for Herbert Kloiber's Tele Munchen Group in a co-production with Robert Halmi's RHI Ent.

Twenty-five films that made it from the book shelf to the box office with credibility intact.