Moby Dick (1956) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick. Director: From $2.99 (SD) on Amazon Video ON DISC Famous Directors: From Sundance to Prominence From Christopher Nolan to Quentin Tarantino and every Coen brother in between, many of today's most popular directors got their start at the Sundance Film Festival . Here's a list of some of the biggest names to go from Sundance to Hollywood prominence.

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Director: Paul Stanley Moby Dick (TV Mini-Series 2011) Adventure | Drama The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick. Stars: William Hurt, Ethan Hawke, Charlie Cox A modern adaptation of the classic novel of the captain of a high tech submarine and his obsessive quest to destroy the enormousprehistoric whale that maimed him. Director: Trey Stokes In this extremely loose adaptation of Melville's classic novel, Ahab is revealed initially not as a bitter and vengeful madman, but as a bit of a lovable scamp. Ashore in New Bedford, he ... See full summary » Director: Lloyd Bacon The true story of the surviving sailors whose whaling ship was destroyed by a sperm whale. Director: Christopher Rowley Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle. Director: John Huston A mysterious explosion occurs at the Balam Bridge in Seoul on November 20th, 1994. In front of hot-blooded local news reporter Lee Bang-Woo, Yoon Hyeok appears.

Yoon Hyeok is from the same ... See full summary » Director: In-je Park A marine and a nun form an unlikely friendship. The marine is shipwrecked on a Pacific island and the nun has been left behind there; they find comfort in one another as the two wait out the war. Director: John Huston Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Director: John Huston A major heist goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel. Director: John Huston Edit Storyline This classic story by Herman Melville revolves around Captain Ahab and his obsession with a huge whale, Moby Dick. The whale caused the loss of Ahab's leg years before, leaving Ahab to stomp the boards of his ship on a peg leg. Ahab is so crazed by his desire to kill the whale, that he is prepared to sacrifice everything, including his life, the lives of his crew members, and even his ship to find and destroy his nemesis, Moby Dick. Written by E.W.

DesMarais <jlongst@aol.com> See All (49) » Taglines: In all the world---in all the seas---in all adventure, there is no might like the might of [Moby Dick] See more » Genres: 3 October 1956 (Portugal) See more » Also Known As: Herman Melville's Moby Dick See more » Filming Locations: Did You Know? Trivia Orson Welles ' one-scene cameo helped to fund his stage production of the very same story. See more » Goofs Airplane contrails visible in the background when Starbuck plans to shoot Ahab. See more » Quotes We're All Bound To Go (uncredited) (United States) – See all my reviews Very minor spoilers ahead. John Huston did a fantastic job adapting Melville's masterpiece for film. Ray Bradbury did an excellent job adapting the dialogue and exposition from the novel for the film. he took giant and important chunks of essential dialogue, without needing to take up the extraneous scientific jargon or soliliqiues that are better suited for the printed page than the screen. He remains faithful to Melville's vision, and the important symbolism is there.

It's a very difficult job, and Melville's novel is a very difficult book to adapt, but Bradbury, who apparently hadn't read the book before adapting it, did one hell of a job. The actors are great, and it's a shame they didn't win any Oscars. Gregory Peck is excellent as the sullen, vengeance-driven Captain Aheab. He made the role his own, and knew when to be passionate and when to be calm and quiet. Some parts of the novel may seem wordy to viewers, but are important in conveying Melville's meaning, such as Father Mapple's sermon on man's obedience to God. If you have a short attention span, and only like action films that are short on substance, this movie is not for you. Everyone else must do themselves a favor and watch this classic. This is an adaptation for the ages. 7 of 8 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes Moby Dick (1956) | Cinema de Merde Moby Dick (1956) Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Freidrich Von Ledebur The Setup: Good, straight-up adaptation of the novel.

Discussion: Oh dear, Moby Dick. It’s one of those novels that a lot of people read because it’s supposed to be great and do NOT enjoy. One reason is that you’re basically expecting a literary Jaws, and are stunned, then frustrated, then angry, that Moby Dick doesn’t show up until page 750 of the 800-page novel. The rest of it is all meditation on the sea and the life if the seaman, and the business of whaling, which is all well and good the second time, when you’re expecting it, but not the first, in which you’re expecting hot whale-on-ship action. Ah well. The reason I got this movie is there was a piece on it in the New York Times, where the critic was saying what an impression it made on him as a child and how it verges on surrealism, so I was pretty keen to get it. I’d also never seen a film directed by John Huston, so this would be a good intro [oh, what am I thinking? Of course I’ve seen and loved The Maltese Falcon ]. Oh and by the way, the screenplay is by Huston and Ray Bradbury!

We open with our hero saying “Call me Ishmael,” and giving the whole intro to the novel about being depressed and heading down to New Bedford, accompanied by a nice matte painting [oh, how I miss matte paintings] of the town below. He gets a room for the night, and that night meets Queequeg, played by an Austrian actor with some excellent-looking tattoos/scars. He doesn’t quite look like a south islander, but he does look and act convincingly exotic. Before you know it, they are fast friends and decide to ship together. He also catches a glimpse of Ahab, who appears to the sound of a thunderclap. The movie gets a lot of milage out of the “step-thump-step-thump” sound of his wooden leg. The next morning, Orson Welles is on hand to give the old sermon from the book, which he handles quite capably, as you might imagine, but notice how the muted color gives the whole thing the look of a faded early American painting. There was a credit for Huston contributing “color styles” to the film… maybe this is what they meant?

Ishmael and Queequeg sign to Ahab’s ship, then receive a dire warning by Royal Dano, character actor who has also graced such cinematic treasures as Messiah of Evil and the old Stacy Keach The Killer Inside Me . He delivers a prophetic warning about sailing with Ahab. Then before you know it, we’re into a somber sequence in which the women of the town come out to stand grimly in hoods and scarves to stare balefully at the departing seamen. It’s effective! The ship leaves, and it’s a few days before the men actually see Ahab, but when Peck appears, he does look truly crazy. They’ve found a way to make it look like his eyes go in two directions, and he has a billion-mile stare that makes it seem that something is truly wrong. He tells the men that their main purpose is to find and kill Moby Dick, and gets the men riled up over it. This film successfully portrays the seamen as simple-minded folk in a way that comes off as realistic, not insulting.

After they bring in one whale—accomplished with models that are surprisingly effective—second-in-command Starbuck is clear that he thinks Ahab is crazy to go after just one whale in the ocean. Ahab tells him that’s the deal, get used to it, and notice how Peck doesn’t blink for this entire scene. SPOILERS > > > We pass a certain point in the film in which things turn for the ominous. First, a man falls into the water and seemingly just disappears. Then Queequeg rolls the bones, and comes up with a very dire message. He orders a specially-made coffin from the carpenter, and settles down into a catatonic trance. Then—Moby Dick appears! I think this is somewhat earlier than in the novel, but it’s a necessary fix. There are nice touches in which things take a turn for the surreal, such as a shot of the men watching Moby Dick, nothing but blankness behind them. There is also a touch that a cloud of seagulls always hovers above Moby Dick, and thus around him the soundtrack becomes an eerie thrush of bird’s wings flapping.

After an unsuccessful attempt at Moby Dick, the wind dies away for days, leaving the men stranded, until they have to take the step of towing the ship with their rowboats. They soon encounter another ship damaged by Moby Dick, and the captain’s son dead in the battle, but Ahab refuses to help, pretty much dooming the other men, because he has to go pursue the white whale. He tells the captain “God help you,” and the captain replies “God forgive you, Ahab.” Things go seriously south from here. Ahab offers his whole share to the man who kills Moby Dick, and urges the men to temper their harpoons in their own blood. The men fall for it, and Starbuck laments how “Madmen beget madmen.” Starbuck makes to shoot Ahab from behind, but can’t. He should have, because guess who shows up then? You got it, ol’ white head. The boats go out, Moby Dick smashes one, bites another in two, and soon enough Ahab has jumped onto Moby Dick with a harpoon, and become entangled in lines, his corpse strapped to the whale’s body.

His arm moves in a way that seems to call to the men, who observe “Ahab’s dead, but he beckons.” Now Starbuck gets suddenly obsessed to get Moby Dick, in an effective twist. But before you know it Moby Dick has destroyed the whole lot, with special effects that are bad and yet somehow good, and the ship goes down in a whirlpool, leaving the final image of Queequeg’s floating coffin. < < < SPOILERS END It was quite good. This is a straight-up, quite solid adaptation that just gets the book up there on screen, without any special interpretation or artistic panache, just putting what is on the page on the screen, themes and subtexts intact. And there’s definitely something to be said for that. Sure, it leaves off all the pages of meditation on whaling and its symbolic weight, although it does retain hints of it with sections devoted to the bloody processing of the body and such. It’s probably as effective and faithful a version of the book that can be made.

Huston and Bradbury also retain the spirit of the novel with touches that allude to the vast cosmic resonance of the story, such as the sudden change of tone when the women appear at dockside or the otherworldly sound of the birds’ flapping wings when Moby Dick is present. So yeah, a quite respectable adaptation that plays it straight and contains no frills, just an extremely solid and assured vision of what the novel is about, and a quite accomplished realization of that vision. Good, solid American craftsmanship. Should you watch it: Moby Dick Reviews & Ratings - IMDb IMDb 14 out of 14 people found the following review useful: some original turns from United States 24 September 2003 Although this film does suffer from Warner Bros. attempt to sex up the story from Melville's meditative original, it has some interesting original qualities all its own. First, it looks great. The rich details of the port, seedy taverns and docks lent a realism which was a delight to behold in itself. Second, Ahab is merely a harpoonist first class(or whatever they were called) at the beginning of the story, rather than captain.

I wasn't sure where he got the funds to buy the old whaling vessel, but he transforms himself into the Ahab of the book--an interesting character arc of its own. I would never have envisioned Ahab as the care-free rascal engaging in crow's nest acrobatics as he does in this movie, but it serves as a contrast to the bitter, obsessed tyrant he becomes later on. His final triumph over Moby Dick and return to his sweetheart make for typical Hollywood pablum, but what's new, even after 70-odd years? In addition, much of the story is so land-locked, I was getting antsy for them to get to sea and get it on with MD. Was the above review useful to you? 15 out of 16 people found the following review useful: Entertaining Sea Story from brighton, ma 25 August 2002 Once one gets over the fact that this 1930 adaptation of Herman Melville's classic sea story has an at best tenuous relationship to the novel it's based on, it's quite enjoyable. John Barrymore makes an heroic Ahab, and Joan Bennett is fetching as his love interest (yes, I know).

Warner Brothers went all out with this one, and as Barrymore was still a top leading man at the time, did a beautiful job with at least the visual aspects of the story, and the film is at times breathtaking to behold. Alas, they threw away most of the plot! Such were the ways of Hollywood. Noble Johnson makes for the best Queequeg I've ever seen, though. Was the above review useful to you? 14 out of 15 people found the following review useful: Hollywood Whale 24 September 2003 *** This review may contain spoilers *** ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** A relentlessly mugging John Barrymore plays Young Ahab Ceely (!) as poor Herman Melville spins without cessation in his lonely grave. The movie begins with Ahab as a mere sprite, dancing about the rigging and bragging about multiple girlfriends in every port ("I don't care if they're white, black or green"). Upon arriving back home in New Bedford he is immediately smitten by his brother's (!!) girl, Joan Bennett, the daughter of Father Mapple (!!!).

Accompanied by his faithful companion Queequeg (No "Call me Ishmael" in this flick) he gets roaring drunk in the Old Spouter and proceeds to church to flirt with Faith, whom he of course wins over. Then it's off to sea for 3 years, where a huge floating baked potato bites his leg off. (No "awful whiteness" for this whale!) Fearing that Faith will reject him because of his wooden leg, he uses his brother ("Derek") as an intermediary; surprise, he lies to Ahab about her intentions (which were honorable, of course) and Ahab runs off to sea for another 3, 7 or 10 years (the chronology got a little mixed here). Somehow, as an itinerant seaman, he raises enough cash to purchase a ship, the "Shanghai Lady" (which does not get renamed "Pequod" or anything else). Upon mistakenly landing at New Bedford (easy to get confused out there, I guess) the crew jumps ship (one of the better scenes in the movie) and Ahab snarls at Starbuck to Shanghai a new crew from the taverns and brothels.

Poor Starbuck wants only to open a coffee shop, but instead resolutely scours the back alleys. (They did do a great job in casting the most dissolute and desperate looking characters I have ever seen in any movie.) In the middle of a storm the crew tries to mutiny, but Starbuck is able to settle it singlehandedly. However, Derek has also been Shanghied, and slips past Starbuck to confront Ahab, who is manfully manning the wheel. Ahab is a bit confused to see Derek out in the middle of the ocean, and asks him if he was in the tavern or the brothel. When Derek (who all movie long has insisted he's no sailor) tries to grab the wheel, Queequeg picks him up and tosses him against the gunwale, breaking his back. Ahab tells Queequeg to stick him in Ahab's cabin, and that's the last we hear of Derek. The storm breaks, and the crew demands that Ahab cease his doomed chase of the big fish. Ahab meekly agrees, but then we hear "Thar She Blows" from the crow's nest!

And guess what, it's the floating baked potato! It's off to the chase, and even tho Moby Potato smashes Ahab's boat, he's able to use the harpoon line to pull himself aboard the whale! He repeatedly stabs the rubbery substance, while the whale obligingly swims straight and steady, and the camera zooms in on copious whale blood spurting into Ahab's face. And in the next scene the crew is carving up the dead old fish, able now to return in triumph to New Bedford! Rosy fadeout and happy endings! Hooray for Hollywood! Was the above review useful to you? 16 out of 20 people found the following review useful: A Whale Of A Tale from Forest Ranch, CA 15 November 2004 A crazed sea captain searches the Seven Seas for MOBY DICK, the great white whale which maimed him. To enjoy this film on its own merits it would be well for the viewer to remind himself that great literature does not always become great cinema. The two art forms are very dissimilar, each making different demands upon its audience.

Sometimes, as in this instance, there is only a hint of the original story when it reaches the screen. Do not look for Ishmael or the Pequod here; you will not find them. Don't expect any titanic & transcendental clash between man and brute beast at the climax. Indeed, the conclusion of the film is so radically different from the novel as to be almost startling. What will you find is a good-looking movie with very fine production values, featuring an enormously enjoyable performance by John Barrymore as Captain Ahab. Barrymore overacts outrageously, as is to be expected with a role of this sort, chewing the scenery and rolling his extraordinary eyes. In short, he is tremendous fun, even during the unexpected scenes depicting Ahab in love. His brief foray into church, followed by an adoring stray dog, is hilarious, not a descriptive term one usually associates with Melville's character. In short, the entire film is a star vehicle for Barrymore and he remains the primary reason to view it. Joan Bennett, as Ahab's love, and Lloyd Hughes, as Ahab's resentful younger brother, don't fare as well in comparison to Barrymore's scene-stealing antics.

Hughes' final moments, after being shanghaied onto Barrymore's ship, are his most effective, but Miss Bennett is not given much to do during her solemn sequences except to act patient and brave, which can be very dull. Silent film star Noble Johnson has one of his best talkie roles as the half-savage Queequeg, Ahab's only true friend. Another excellent actor from Silent days, Nigel De Brulier, shows up very briefly as a pathetic barroom preacher. Character actress Virginia Sale is quite droll in her brief role as a New Bedford spinster. The scenes actually showing Moby Dick are dramatic and frightening, even though the fate the script has in store for him would never have passed muster with Melville. Was the above review useful to you? 15 out of 20 people found the following review useful: It ain't Moby Dick but it ain't bad! Author: raskimono 23 September 2003 John Barrymore can act. His performance as Captain Ahab is the best I've ever seen.

That might not be saying much because the novel "Moby Dick" despite being as popular as it is has only been brought to the screen four times and the first two, this version being the latter of the two are based on a stage play adaptation "The Sea Beast." This movie adds a love interest to the proceedings and changes and alters the ending and character relationships. Is it blasphemy? All I can say if you do not know the plot of Moby Dick and just recognize it as most people do as a story about a man chasing a whale, you'll love this version. Heck, I know the story and I loved it. I think it is much better than the more faithful Huston-Peck version or TNT-Patrick Stewart version. First for a 1930 version, it has aged well. The special effects including the sea sequences are better than some movies made today and almost equal to the "Perfect Storm", in certain places. Moby Dick itself is a sight to behold. It has to be at list twenty times the size of the shark in Jaws. It's a wonder of prop making indeed. Barrymore, I repeat his fabulous embodying the character completely.

Well, this was his second time playing the character. All, in all, good Hollywood entertainment. 9/10. Was the above review useful to you? 10 out of 12 people found the following review useful: Pure Coincidence from Buffalo, New York 15 August 2007 I suppose that any novel that's as much of a downer as Moby Dick would not find much favor with Depression era audiences who had enough of their own troubles. But any resemblance to the classic Herman Melville novel is a pure coincidence. In fact half of the film is a prequel to the main story as we know it, not that too much of it was kept for the film. We first meet Ahab Creely (he's got a last name and a brother) as one happy go lucky soul with two legs and intentions to marry Joan Bennett who is Father Mapple's daughter. That brother Derek, played by Lloyd Hughes, also wants to marry Bennett. John Barrymore is Ahab in an over the top performance.

Barrymore had not quite mastered the sound cinema and he gave out with all the silent era histrionics plus a stage voice that would have shaken the rafters of any movie theater this film was playing in. We see Ahab lose his leg to the great whale Moby Dick and I have to say the amputation scene was pretty gruesome. Of course this was all before the Code. Still I'm sure 1930 audiences shuddered. After that the story of Ahab's hunt for the whale that he thinks made him unsightly in Joan Bennett's eyes. That is not exactly Melville's motivation, in fact there are no women characters in Moby Dick as he wrote it. One of the things Melville did was invest the crew of Ahab's ship the Pequod with personalities. Other than Queequeg the cannibal harpooner the names are there, but not the personalities. Starbuck and Stubbs might as well be Smith and Jones. I'd see this version of Moby Dick strictly for curiosity and nothing else. Was the above review useful to you?

9 out of 11 people found the following review useful: A bit of little Melville, a little bit of whale, but lots of Barrymore. from Vancouver, Canada 16 May 2005 This is a remake of the 1926 film THE SEA BEAST. John Barrymore stars in both of them. The movie is actually based on a stage play which explains a great deal about why the plot was changed so, dare I say it?, dramatically. Herman Melville contributed the title and a studio scriptwriter added everything else. 48 year old Barrymore plays 20-something Ahab Seeley, a happy go lucky sailor who is also a hard drinking woman chaser. We first see him doing acrobatic stunts from the crows nest of a ship (John is doubled by action film star Richard Talmadge). Ahab also has a brother named Derek (Lloyd Hughes) who stays on land and works in the local church. Plot complication 1: Ahab and Derek both fall for the same girl, the ministers daughter Faith (Joan Bennett). She rejects dull brother Derek for the more adventurous Ahab. ("But I'll always be putting out to sea." he says.

"And I'll always be waiting for you." she says. Isn't love wonderful?) Plot complication 2: On his next voyage Ahab gets his leg bitten off by (wait for it) a giant white whale named Moby Dick. At least they used something from the novel! Plot complication 3: When Faith Mapple sees Ahab with his peg leg she screams and runs off. This drives Ahab insane and he swears vengeance on the white whale. Years pass and Moby continues to elude Ahab. He buys his own boat and becomes a skipper even more hated than Captain Bligh. His crew jumps ship leaving only his brutal First Mate Stubbs (Walter Long) and Ahab's only true friend Queequeg (Noble Johnson). Stubbs visits bars and brothels to shanghai a crew and accidentally grabs Derek Seeley who apparently has been drinking his troubles away since Faith rejected him (hmmm, should I make that plot complication 4? Oh never mind). During a storm at sea Derek tries to kill his brother but loyal Queequeg breaks his back. Oh and what about Moby Dick?

Don't worry we haven't forgotten him; he finally shows up again so we can tie up all these loose ends. What happens? I won't spoil it for you; this movie runs now and then on TCM so you can "sea" for yourself (bad pun, I admit it). John Barrymore overacts but what else is new? He loved his "mad" scenes and this time he gets to be looney for half the picture. After he goes insane his character begins to resemble Mr. Hyde, whom he played 10 years earlier. He even seems to be trying to re-create the Hyde character by stomping around the deck in a top hat and flowing cloak. Noble Johnson is surprisingly good as Queequeg. He is constantly beating a drum to placate the sea gods and he is fiercely loyal to his captain. (When this movie was remade in 1956 German actor Friedrich Ledebur played the role and the character was expanded even more.) Lloyd Hughes is best remembered (by me anyway) for the 1925 version of THE LOST WORLD where he played reporter Ed Malone.

Joan Bennett had a long career in movies and TV and is probably best remembered now for the terror/soap opera "Dark Shadows". Watch for silent film actor Nigel de Brulier as Elijah, the mad "prophet" who predicts trouble for Ahab early in the film. I like this movie, now I wish I could see that 1926 version. Anyone know if it still exists? Was the above review useful to you? 10 out of 13 people found the following review useful: Stupid but Fun from Hicksville, NY 5 January 2001 I saw this one on TNT several years ago. It's a pre-code Hollywood version of the novel which has little or nothing to do with the book. Barrymore plays Ahab who, as the film begins, has both his legs. After a gory meeting with Moby Dick in which he has his leg bloodily chewed off, Ahab returns to New Bedford where he meets the scorn of his fiancee because of his wooden prosthesis. Vowing revenge, he returns to sea, kills Moby Dick, & (I kid you not) gets the girl.

The film is ridiculous with the story completely re-written & Barrymore as a good-natured, capering Ahab. But at this late date it does provide some silly fun & a good view of how Hollywood can (& still does) ruin great literature. I think it's worth a look--I wish I had taped it. Was the above review useful to you? 5 out of 5 people found the following review useful: A Prequel, A Sequel & an original story all wrapped up in one from East Coast, U.S.A. 12 May 2007 This film & it's silent predecessor, "The Sea Beast"(1926), both starred John Barrymore. Some have said while the films' took liberties with Melville's text, the visualizations were superb on these two films, particularly the silent version. In fact John Barrymore created the very personification of Captain Ahab and to many was more of what Melville envisioned than Gregory Peck's fine but (Lincolnesque) Ahab 26 years later.

The success of "The Sea Beast" was a huge hit for Warner Brothers in 1926 and when talkies arrived they, like other Hollywood studios ie MGM, carted out recent previous silent successes for sound remake. Douglas Fairbanks Jr once said that between "The Sea Beast" & "Moby Dick", that "The Sea Beast" was the superior movie and that he had seen it numerous times. Audiences agreed with Fairbanks Jr at the box office and this made the silent version of the Melville story, butchered though it may be, a likely candidate for an early talkie remake. Barrymore is obviously older in the talkie after having been more svelte in the silent The Sea Beast. His face is now beginning to take on it's 1930s jowlish appearance due to the effect of his continuing alcoholism. He had recently been very ill after a cruise with wife Dolores(who costarred in The Sea Beast)on their yacht.

This film offers Barrymore an opportunity to use his marvelous voice to impart the character of Ahab but denies him the opportunity to get to do some really outlandish 'mad-man' makeup as he had done in "The Sea Beast" and other silent films lke "Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde". The Moby Dick prop used in this remake is superior and way more convincing than in the silent film. But it's still not on a par with John Hustons 1956 whale prop filmed in believable muted colors. Since this is a rearranging or reinventing of what Melville intended it would be fun to speculate if he would get a chuckle out of showing Ahab as a young man with both legs intact as well as having a female love interest. Purists don't like this tampering of Melville text but 1920s audiences were either ignorant or just didn't seem to mind good storytelling through the medium of motion pictures. Thus the part of Moby Dick concerning Ahab's dallying as a young man and his love for this girl Esther is enough to fill a prequel book or movie leading up to the famous encounter with the Great White Whale.

The last part of the movie after they kill Moby Dick and Ahab lives and arrives back home to Esther is a far fetched sequel story in itself. I think Melville & everybody would disagree with the fact that Ahab lives but it would still be enough for a separate story and possibly leaving enough future story open for Ahab to perhaps hunt down and kill 'the son of Moby Dick'. In this age of Sequels & Prequels we live in , a surviving Ahab killing Moby's son is not pablum but perhaps just good fantasy story telling. Was the above review useful to you? 10 out of 15 people found the following review useful: So what if it misses the literary version... from United States 27 December 2004 ... for the general public, suffering from the depression era, a happy ending was needed and probably welcomed... the working man defeating the menace and able to find true love... A great message to those people scraping together a few cents to escape reality at the local movie house! I too was surprised at the brilliant effects for 1930...

Just think about the state of the world, everyday life in America and the cinematic art form in its pre-adolescence before and after watching this film... quite entertaining!!! And for you academic purists, try to keep one toe in the vernacular and allow the common folk some entertainment! Was the above review useful to you? Page 1 of 3: TWF Logistics April 2016 Newsletter by TWF Logistics Pty ltd (page 12) - issuu issuu Issuu on Google+ April Edition Trivia 1. Which Latin term, usually applied to legal evidence, means 'at first sight'? a) Prima Facie b) Firma Regard c) Frima Sieni d) Firma Sight 2. In which bay is Alcatraz? 3. Which actor appeared to have a wooden leg in the 1956 film Moby Dick? a) Gregory Peck b) Spencer Tracy c) Audie Murphy d) John Barrymore 4. What is Canada's national animal? a) Beaver b) Mapple Syrup c) Moose d) Canadian Goose 5. Which hills divide England from Scotland?

1) a TWF Logistics April 2016 Newsletter by TWF Logistics Pty ltd - issuu issuu TWF LOGISTICS IN THIS ISSUE The Big Conversation Singapore Saying Strong The Lease Begins Plus The Push for to Curb Illegal Wildlife Trade April 2016 Maritime Industry Joins Push to Curb Illegal Wildlife Trade 6-7 Timely Change for Cargo Reporting 8 The Lease Begins 9 - 11 Carriers Tap Alternative Route for Asia-US East Coast Backhaul Leg Box Lines Agree with Brussels to New Pricing Practices 12 Trivia Address: 1st Floor 200 Union Road, Ascot Vale Vic 3032, Australia Telephone: 1800 117 479 Fax: +61 03 8899 7209 Email: ops@twflogistics.com Website: April Edition Welcome Welcome to the April edition of the TWF Logistics Newsletter. This newsletter is designed to be an informative source about the company and the general industry including news and forthcoming events. We hope that you find this newsletter beneficial and the information provided of great value and interest. We appreciate your suggestions and input for future issues.

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Los Angeles’ strong volumes follow an equally impressive performance by adjacent Long Beach which moved 561,412 teu in February, a 36% yearon-year rise. Both have benefited not just from the recovery in cargo after last year’s disruption that forced some shippers to alternative gateways, but a surge in imports ahead of the Chinese lunar new year holidays. With factories in China taking some time to re-open, this month is expected to be quieter. “Back to back record months to start 2016 indicate consumer confidence in the US economy and strong shipper confidence in our terminal and supply chain partners to deliver on speed and efficiency,” said LA executive director Gene Seroka. LA’s container imports last month soared almost 47% to 372,744 teu compared to the previous year. Exports increased 11% to 146,488 teu in February. Total loaded imports of 519,233 teu were up 34.5% compared to the previous year. The port cautioned that the surge in February deliveries will result in softer import volumes in March. The relatively high value of the US dollar continues to slow US.

Exports, the port added. Source: Lloyds List Australia Address: 1st Floor 200 Union Road, Ascot Vale Vic 3032, Australia Telephone: 1800 117 479 Fax: +61 03 8899 7209 Email: ops@twflogistics.com Website: April Edition Maritime Industry Joins Push to Curb Illegal Wildlife Trade REPRESENTATIVES of the maritime industry signed a declaration today to help end the trade in illegal wildlife. Signatories to the Buckingham Palace Declaration agreed to develop a secure system for sharing information on suspected illegal wildlife trafficking with customs and law enforcement, and establish a team to work with customs and law enforcement to create best practice on stopping the illegal wildlife trade in key ports.

Maersk Line head of sustainability Signe Bruun Jensen told Lloyd’s List: “By signing the Buckingham Palace Declaration, Maersk is committing to take real steps to shut down the routes exploited by traffickers of the illegal wildlife trade moving their products from killing field to marketplace.” Ms Jensen said that initial efforts will be focused in the coming weeks across areas identified as illegal wildlife trade hotspots: South and East Africa, the United Arab Emirates, Southeast Asia and Greater China. “This initiative will further strengthen our ability to screen data and cargo in order to identify potential shipments of suspected illegal wildlife. In turn we will work to increase awareness of the issue amongst employees and customers in targeted markets.” The declaration was drafted by the transport taskforce of United for Wildlife, a campaign from The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry to bring together international wildlife charities with the aim of eliminating the illegal wildlife trade.

Maritime signatories among the supporters from across the transport sector include China Cosco Shipping, Cruise Lines International Association, DP World, International Maritime Organization, Maersk Group, BIMCO, Danish Shipowners’ Association, Hamburg Sьd, International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners, International Chamber of Shipping, Japanese Shipowners’ Association, Liberian Shipowners’ Council, Stena Line UK, Stolt-Nielsen, Sustainable Shipping Initiative and the UK Chamber of Shipping. Source: Lloyds List Australia Address: 1st Floor 200 Union Road, Ascot Vale Vic 3032, Australia Telephone: 1800 117 479 Fax: +61 03 8899 7209 Email: ops@twflogistics.com Website: April Edition Timely change required for Cargo Reporting (Part 1) The ABF has recently announced that it will increase its compliance on cargo reporting requirements to facilitate legitimate trade, ensure a level playing field for industry and to contribute to the protection of Australia's border. As a part of this approach, the ABF has committed to meet with selected cargo reporters and industry representatives to discuss how they can improve cargo reporting compliance.

While Freight & Trade Alliance (FTA) supports this approach, we have consistently advocated for broader reform. To meet compliance expectations we need significant enhancements to the Integrated Cargo System (ICS), or better still, a complete review of cargo reporting policy and systems design. We remain of the view the ICS should allow “consignment key data” (vessel, voyage, container no, MAWB, HAWB. HBL) to be amended which would align to the Import Declaration functionality. We believe that a major underlying reason for the ABF resisting our proposal is that it is too difficult to enhance the ICS therefore we must live with “workarounds”. Freight forwarders commonly withhold their ICS cargo report transmission until they have confirmation of import vessel and voyage data. This in turn delays the timing of the cargo report as increasingly import cargo is being transhipped via intermediary ports. An example recently brought to our attention was that a freight forwarder had an ocean bill of lading available weeks prior to the estimated time of destination at Port Botany, Sydney. The cargo report was not lodged by the freight forwarder as the cargo was being transhipped via Singapore and import vessel and exact voyage number details were unknown.

As it turns out, the first port of arrival for the import vessel was Fremantle before making its way to the Australian east coast. Statutory provisions mandate that the cargo report details be provided at least 48 hours prior to arrival of the first port (not the port of discharge). Instead of providing a cargo report well in advance of arrival, albeit with the knowledge of having to amend import vessel and voyage data once confirmed, the freight forwarder was at risk of failing to comply with legislative requirements by waiting until import vessel details were confirmed. (cont.

) Address: 1st Floor 200 Union Road, Ascot Vale Vic 3032, Australia Telephone: 1800 117 479 Fax: +61 03 8899 7209 Email: ops@twflogistics.com Website: April Edition Timely change required for Cargo Reporting (Part 2) The current solution, or should I say “workaround”, mandated by the ABF to overcome this issue is outlined in Australian Customs Cargo Advice 2007/08 whereby the cargo report should be lodged early and if an amendment is required to key identifiers, the cargo report is to be withdrawn and re-lodged. A process is established whereby the Customs Information and Support Centre (CI&SC) would, under particular circumstances, facilitate the over-ride of subsequent screening periods. This is an extremely cumbersome process. Assuming that the ABF will not enhance the ICS and that an expectation remains on timely reporting of transhipped cargo, then freight forwarders will be left with no option but to follow the process outlined in ACCA 2007/08.

This will further move industry away from providing the most accurate information available in the first instance, which will result in duplication of screening processes and will add to the CI&SC workload. So what is the solution? FTA has been consistently advocating the merits of a “pre-load” cargo reporting model. If the cargo is not reported, it does not get loaded on the ship or aircraft at the overseas port. This approach will guarantee that cargo reporting is provided within prescribed timeframes. We accept that this would be a major reform and was given consideration back in 2007 with a working group involving both industry and government representatives.

Since this time many other Customs’ administrations have followed the USA pre-load model meaning that in the contemporary operating environment, implementing “do not load” requirements at overseas ports would align with other global practices Source: Lloyds List Australia Address: 1st Floor 200 Union Road, Ascot Vale Vic 3032, Australia Telephone: 1800 117 479 Fax: +61 03 8899 7209 Email: ops@twflogistics.com Website: April Edition The Lease Begins Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas launched the transaction process for the Port of Melbourne’s 50-year lease today, calling for formal expressions of interest. The government expects chose a leaseholder before the end of the year. “We’re moving to market quickly because of the strong bidder interest in the Port of Melbourne and we’re confident the lease will deliver significant, long-term economic benefit to Victorians,” Mr Pallas said. Some proceeds from the lease will be directed to the removal of 50 level train crossings around the greater Melbourne area.

Mr Pallas said the government “is getting on with the leasing of the Port of Melbourne and using the proceeds to build key infrastructure across the state and create jobs”. “The lease will make our port even better, increasing efficiencies and competitiveness,” he said. The deadline for lodging an expression of interest is Monday April 18. Source: Lloyds List Australia The Big Conversation (Part 1) BOTH Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon have joked publicly that ‘SG’, the abbreviation for their title as United Nations secretary-general, carries a second meaning around the organisation’s headquarters that more aptly describes the role of the world’s top diplomat: scapegoat. It is a joke that will not have been lost on Kitack Lim, the new SG at the helm of the International Maritime Organization. Finding consensus among 171 countries within a UN framework is on any subject, even on a good day, the stuff of minor miracles. Shouldering the blame for lack of progress when the miracles are not forthcoming is just part of the job.

The fundamental importance of the IMO in determining the legislative framework that shipping operates in is too often overlooked at industry level amid the tumultuous cyclicality of the market, but there is good reason to start paying attention to the convoluted conversations and drawn out deals being brokered on London’s Albert Embankment. In the wake of shifting power plays in the global climate change debate, a rare window of opportunity has opened up in the regulatory politics of shipping. If Mr Lim can corral a consensus on CO2 reduction from shipping this year, bridging a divided membership and deferring the looming threat of expensive and disruptive regional regulations in the process, well then miracle delivered. The rest of the IMO’s agenda will look decidedly less daunting and positive progress will in all likelihood snowball. (cont.

) Address: 1st Floor 200 Union Road, Ascot Vale Vic 3032, Australia Telephone: 1800 117 479 Fax: +61 03 8899 7209 Email: ops@twflogistics.com April Edition The Big Conversation (Part 2) If, however, the IMO is still failing to make tangible progress on climate change by 2017 then it will not just be Mr Lim who is left to play the scapegoat – the industry faces an uncertain future as a cash cow to fund market distorting climate measures while fending off attacks from environmental NGOs and regional power blocs. Mr Lim’s quiet Confucian style does not show any signs of cracking under the pressure so far. It is early days after all, and besides, he was elected to deal with precisely these issues on the back of a campaign that promised to build bridges across a fractured membership. “It is a good time for us to make progress,” he says, fresh from a trip to Brussels where he has wasted no time in setting up bilateral talks with the power brokers in EU shipping policy.

“We had a very good discussion on how to co-operate and I am confident that we can have a good dialogue there,” he said. ‘Good dialogue’ is something of a mantra for Mr Lim. He strongly believes that consensus can be found regardless of the byzantine politics that may underpin any political impasse, if only he can get the right people in a room, close the door and use the IMO as “a bridge between all these stakeholders”. To even the casual observer relations between the IMO and the EU are difficult, complex and loaded with risk. Regardless, Mr Lim doggedly refuses to let the details get in the way of what he sees as the more important areas of agreement. “Safety and protection of the environment are shared goals for both of us, nobody can deny that. Based on good, mutual understanding we can move on,” he says in his trademark tone of quiet certainty. Mr Lim has not been tested by a major IMO committee meeting yet, but he has quickly established himself as a fearsomely proactive networker, determined to personally open up clear lines of communication on all fronts. Brussels was inevitably an early destination on his charm offensive world tour, but his schedule suggests a far wider ambition.

Such overt diplomacy is of course not a new approach from the SG’s office and all of his most recent predecessors could be found, to a greater or lesser extent, employing such tactics. The feedback from his initial flurry of meetings, however, is that his approach feels different. He is a quiet man. He listens intently through the most strongly held views and tries to find a fragment of consensus to work on. Clear communication and regular dialogue are prescribed in all cases and he firmly believes that a way forward can always be found. Perhaps he takes his cue from his boss and fellow Korean, Ban Ki-Moon who was an early star-turn visitor to the IMO this year when he pushed the UN agency’s central role in translating the Paris climate agreement into tangible results. Amid all the frustrations of dealing with governments focused on narrow national agendas, Mr Ban publicly celebrates wherever possible the fact that “when there is a unity of purpose and solidarity among UN members, you can make real things happen”. Of course Mr Ban will leave his SG role at the end of the year, but the legacy of ‘real things’ finally happening in the global climate change debate will have a direct impact on Mr Lim’s tenure at the IMO. (cont.

) Address: 1st Floor 200 Union Road, Ascot Vale Vic 3032, Australia Telephone: 1800 117 479 Fax: +61 03 8899 7209 Email: ops@twflogistics.com Website: April Edition The Big Conversation (Part 3) While critics have described the Paris agreement as weak (it is) with nothing that is enforceable (there is not), the deal signals progress on a number of fronts that could have a seismic impact on shipping. The weakest interpretation is simply that the deal will start a virtuous circle for further progress. Broadly speaking such statements are true, but there is real significance in the fact that the political stance from China has changed markedly. The main sticking points previously revolved around who should pay for climate change. The calls on nations to act “in accordance with their common but differentiated responsibilities” continued to block negotiations both inside the IMO and beyond, largely because holding the world’s biggest emitter (China) and secondbiggest (America) to drastically different standards was hard to sustain.

The new UN Framework on Climate Change agreement requires a flow of $100bn a year from developed countries to developing ones by 2020, much of it to be spent on adapting to climate change, rather than attempting to stop it, but crucially there has been a big step away from the previous hard line on differentiation. The key phrase now is the “intended nationally determined contributions” that 187 countries have vowed to make. A semantic difference perhaps, but China’s agreement to sign up to such language was a major achievement that will free them to pursue an active debate within the IMO. The challenge and opportunity for Mr Lim is to carefully steer the sequence of events from here towards a globally enforceable set of CO2 reduction measures for shipping. The first step is to agree a mandatory system of data collection to monitor the industry’s output of CO2, but even this is fraught with political landmines. An existing regional approach from Brussels could and should adapt to a global system if the IMO can deliver a functioning system in place by 2018, thereby avoiding yet further local bureaucracy for shipping and continued incursions into the IMO’s global authority.

But the wild card of the highly politicised European Parliament could yet derail the more informed and pragmatic intentions of the European Commission and the EU member states on that front. Mr Lim’s initial charm offensive into Brussels may well have opened up the channels of dialogue, but the reality of the situation is that there is an education exercise necessary there to explain to MEPs how the IMO operates. But all this pales into insignificance in comparison to the thornier issue of what happens next. Mention the phrase “Market based Measures” in front of any senior IMO figure and brows instinctively wrinkle. Even the assured quiet confidence of Mr Lim is replaced by a hurried attempt to change the subject. Market based measures in whatever form, be it an emissions trading scheme, a leveraged incentive scheme or CO2 fund, are difficult and controversial. Previous debates within the IMO hit the buffers precisely because the global climate debate failed to produce any headway. ‘MBM’ is a subject on ice within the walls of IMO. “Should a mandatory data collection system be agreed then the next step would be to collect the data and allow time for it to be analysed. The speed of progress depends on the member states themselves,” says Mr Lim pointedly.

The reality, however, is that a debate on MBM is an inevitability within the IMO context and while Mr Lim wants to move ahead, nobody is prepared to pick up such a hot brick while no clear consensus within the membership exists. Quiet diplomacy is no doubt already underway, but Mr Lim is not being allowed the luxury of a straight run at the campaign. (cont. ) Address: 1st Floor 200 Union Road, Ascot Vale Vic 3032, Australia Telephone: 1800 117 479 Fax: +61 03 8899 7209 Email: ops@twflogistics.com Website: April Edition The Big Conversation (Part 4) The European Parliament is pushing for shipping to be included in a European emissions trading scheme knowing full well that such an approach is not only unworkable but potentially highly disruptive to European shipping markets. Given the disastrous approach taken with aviation they understand only too well the inherent problems, but such negotiating tactics are a well-worn strategy when it comes to the IMO and a continued source of tension for any SG. Good dialogue is one thing, but there are key principles at stake here.

“The IMO’s key working principle is ‘no more favourable treatment’ so it is against anything which distorts markets – a level playing field with globally adopted requirements is crucial,” says Mr Lim. “I will seek to encourage all governments to engage in meaningful negotiations at IMO and will always caution against the introduction of regional measures.” If all this sounds like a recipe for another political impasse, then you are missing the point. This is genuine progress and industry insiders across the political spectrum are optimistic that the regulatory stars are aligned for an epoch shift in the debate. However weak and unenforceable the Paris agreement might be, the fact that countries are prepared to make positive statements in one UN forum means that the same political stance can now flow into the IMO. They are not going to back away from the stance when it comes to international transport. The change of heart might be a subtle one, but if Paris can be translated into the IMO, then monitoring of CO2 followed by a rapid shift of debate into MBMs is within Mr Lim’s grasp. It may take a couple of meetings of the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee this year to realise the shifting geopolitical stance from states, but a workable consensus is now at least conceivable.

For Mr Lim, that means his promise of “a voyage together” has a real chance of setting sail. Tackling CO2 is if course not the only agenda item requiring his ‘good dialogue’, but if he can find consensus there, the embarrassment of the Ballast Water Convention, the politically charged issue of how to tackle migrants at sea, not to mention the relatively speaking more mundane issues of how to balance the day job of safety and security of shipping and the prevention of marine pollution by ships, all look a lot more achievable. As Mr Lim puts it: “another interesting year lies ahead!” Source: Lloyds List Australia Address: 1st Floor 200 Union Road, Ascot Vale Vic 3032, Australia Telephone: 1800 117 479 Fax: +61 03 8899 7209 Email: ops@twflogistics.com April Edition Trivia 1. Which Latin term, usually applied to legal evidence, means 'at first sight'? a) Prima Facie b) Firma Regard c) Frima Sieni d) Firma Sight 2. In which bay is Alcatraz? 3.

Which actor appeared to have a wooden leg in the 1956 film Moby Dick? a) Gregory Peck b) Spencer Tracy c) Audie Murphy d) John Barrymore 4. What is Canada's national animal? a) Beaver b) Mapple Syrup c) Moose d) Canadian Goose 5. Which hills divide England from Scotland? 1) a

Question: Which actor appeared to have a wooden leg in the 1956 film Moby Dick?
Answer: GREGORY PECK