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The Sea Beast (Silent) (DVD) Dolores Costello John Barrymore

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Sea Beast (Silent)Format: DVDCondition: NewNumber Of Discs: 1Release Date: 02/04/2021Actors: Dolores Costello, John BarrymoreDirector: Millard WebbRuntime: 132Region Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)Studio: Alpha VideoCertificate: MPAA Not RatedDescription: Ahab Ceeley and his brother Derek are harpooners on a whaling vessel. While laid over in the seaport town of New Bedford, they both fall in love with Esther Harper, a minister's daughter. Derek is overcome with jealousy when he realizes she prefers his brother. He pushes Ahab overboard on their next whaling trip, causing him to lose his right leg to the great white whale they were pursuing. The flighty Esther rejects Ahab in favor of Derek after reacting to his new wooden leg with horror. Now driven mad with grief, Ahab dedicates himself to killing the white whale that destroyed his life...a whale he has dubbed Moby Dick After the success of Beau Brummel (1924), John Barrymore signed a three-picture deal with the fledgling Warner Brothers. The studio wanted Barrymore to make Don Juan next, but the actor insisted on an adaptation of Herman Melville's classic 1851 novel Moby Dick. (Barrymore would eventually make Don Juan for Warners in 1926.) Playing up Barrymore's status as a screen idol, the filmmakers turned Captain Ahab into a romantic figure, complete with a love interest. For the role of Ahab's ladylove, Barrymore chose his future wife Dolores Costello (Barrymore exhibited so much enthusiasm during their love scenes that he upset Costello's mother, who was on set.) For the second half of the film, after Ahab loses his leg to the whale, Barrymore undergoes a monstrous physical and psychological transformation not unlike his performance in Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1920). Worried that director Millard Webb had gone too far afield of the source material, Jack Warner enlisted Rupert Hughes (Howard's uncle) to reedit the film and rewrite the intertitles. After giving him a $1500 check for his services, Hughes returned it, saying he did it "as a favor to Herman Melville." The Sea Beast would prove to be one of Barrymore's most successful films, and he would remake it in the sound era (with the same alterations to the story) under the more faithful title Moby Dick in 1930. Aspect Ratio: Audio Format: Color / Black & White: Black & White Special Features: DVDs ARE REGION 1 UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Title: The Sea Beast (Silent)

No Of Discs: 1

Release Date: 02/04/2021

Release Year: 2021

EAN: 0089218839398

Region Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)

Run Time: 132

Rating: MPAA Not Rated

Actor: John Barrymore

MPN: 089218839398

Movie/TV Title: Sea Beast

Director: Millard Webb

Format: DVD

Genre: Action & Adventure

Studio: Alpha Video

Sub-Genre: Silent Films

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