It's hardly worth discussing this. Throw the original out the window and you still have this half-witted mess. I guess John Barrymore was enough to satisfy the female audience. His character of Ahab in the first half of the film was a drunken jerk with no respect for anyone. Women were portrayed as drooling pawns. He gets anything he wants. I saw nothing about him that was worth talking about. He meets Joan Bennet and she is with his brother (he had a brother?). He and Bennet agree to marry upon his return from the voyage. When he goes off to sea again, he loses his leg to Moby Dick. Ahab is nuts and out of control, but now it is worse. He buys a ship, shanghais a crew and has only eyes for the White Whale. It's all so very stupid.
