Some good action scenes of the whale and ships at sea and the pleasure of seeing two Laurel & Hardy villains, Walter Long and a bit of Richard Cramer, as well as Noble Johnson as Queequeg, is not enough to distract from this hokum version of Melville's novel. A young woman, Joan Bennett, falls in love with John Barrymore as Ahab, because he stares at her a lot. In 1930, it may have been necessary to show that "love conquers all," but this is really too much. We'll have to wait until John Huston's 1956 version to see this story told correctly.
Review of Moby Dick
