Jim le harponneur

Titre original : The Sea Beast

1926
2h 16min

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John Barrymore in Jim le harponneur (1926)

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThis silent movie is based on Melville's classic Moby Dick. Ahab and his brother compete for the affections of minister's daughter Esther. But the great white whale has been eluding the harp... Tout lireThis silent movie is based on Melville's classic Moby Dick. Ahab and his brother compete for the affections of minister's daughter Esther. But the great white whale has been eluding the harpooners, bearing many scars of failed attacks. Can our hero Ahab succeed where others have ... Tout lireThis silent movie is based on Melville's classic Moby Dick. Ahab and his brother compete for the affections of minister's daughter Esther. But the great white whale has been eluding the harpooners, bearing many scars of failed attacks. Can our hero Ahab succeed where others have perished?

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Anecdotes
A 57 foot 2-strip Technicolor sequence was included in the original release but does not seem to have survived today.

Citations
Title card: [Opening remarks] In these long-gone days of their glory, thousands of vessels and tens of thousands of men followed the whale through seas till then unknown.
Title card: It was seven months since that stout ship The Three Brothers of New Bedford, had left her home port.
Title card: From the last whale killed they took ten tons of skin - the blubber. While some made mince meat of it... Others boiled the blubber down - to a hundred barrels of precious oil.

Versions alternatives
A 57 foot 2-strip Technicolor sequence was included in the original release but is now lost.

Connexions
Featured in Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. (1993)

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Interesting, though not at all based on Melville's Moby Dick.

This film is rarely seen and not available on video. I made a personal copy on Beta tape (from a 16mm print) over 20 years ago to assist in the writing of my master's thesis on the adaptations of Moby Dick. Although it has some interesting maritime visual elements including some documentary footage of the butchering of sperm whales - it has very little to do with Melville's story or characters. Ahab is given a more heroic and romantic treatment. A love interest (Esther) and a rival half-brother provide a conflict never dreamed of by the novelist. The 1930 sound version is similar in most respects although shorter. I won't spoil the ending but you can again be sure it has nothing to do with Melville.