No Genius

There is much to admire in this film. The technicolor just as an experimental achievement deserves praise; the Elijah sequence is well handled and there are some fine faces and a fine mood at the "Pequod's departure. The whale-chases themselves arc excitingly contrived. I like the use made of Pip, the cabin-boy from Alabama, and the unusually restrained handling of Queequeg's coffin. And I welcomed the sequences where the background music was absent Moby Dick is a good film; and a sincere one, I suppose, in that Huston is being honest to himself in his present phase. It is a pity he tackled one of his greatest ambitions in the film industry's current experimental stage, and it can only be hoped that he will forget the visual excitement for a while, and turn to subjects a little less big—stories of intimate intensity. "Moby Dick", after all, has a certain Shakespearean magnitude. Remember, John huston, "the play's the thing".—I.R.

A bible-class called Dolores
Found few could achieve Heaven's glories,
So to make the few fewer Corrupted the pure
By telling indecorous stories.