Learning on ScreenMoby Dick Rehearsed
- Synopsis
- Version, intended for television, of Welles’ stage production of his play based on Melville’s novel. Filmed for three weeks but filming subsequently abandoned after c75 minutes had been shot. It was performed at the Duke of York’s in London in 1955 and the film starred the original stage cast. Set in a mid-19th century American repertory theatre, the play begins stealthily as the audience arrives with the cast milling around an empty stage. The cast fools around and complains about their boss and the forthcoming production of King Lear which they are rehearsing. Then, making a big dramatic entrance and smoking a cigar, the actor manager comes onstage and tells them they are going not going to rehearse King Lear after all, but another piece, Moby Dick.
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Television
- Subjects
- Drama
- Keywords
- Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Credits
- Director
- Orson Welles
- Cinematographer
- Hilton Craig
- Screenplay
- Orson Welles
- Cast
Christopher Lee Gordon Jackson Joan Plowright Kenneth Williams Orson Welles Patrick McGoohan Wensley Pithey
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