Moby Dick (1956)

Captain Ahab: By heavens man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and fate is the handspike.

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Ishmael: [in voiceover, about Starbuck] His courage was one of the great staples of the ship, like beef or flour. There, when required, and not to be foolishly wasted.

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Ishmael: [in voice-over narration] He did not feel the wind, or smell the salt air. He only stood, staring at the horizon, with the marks of some inner crucifixion and woe deep in his face.

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Starbuck's Coffee franchise took its name from the character Starbuck of the Pequod crew.
John Huston originally wanted to cast his father Walter Huston as Captain Ahab, but by the time the film was finally set to be made, his father had been dead for four years.
John Huston shopped the film around Hollywood for three years before United Artists and Moulin Productions agreed to produce it. It was a dark, depressing story, without any female parts or love interest, so Hollywood shunned the screenplay. Warners only entered the agreement for theatrical distribution on the condition that a big-name actor take the role of Ahab. Many thought Gregory Peck was miscast, and Peck actually thought that Huston himself would have been the best choice for the role.
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