--- title: 'The Sea Beast (1926)' type: 'film' director: 'Millard Webb' released: '1926-01-01' runtime_minutes: 136 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-sea-beast-1926' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017354/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Sea Beast (1926) 1926 · 136 min · Drama · United States ## Synopsis The Sea Beast is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Millard Webb, starring John Barrymore, Dolores Costello and George O'Hara. The film was a major commercial success and one of the biggest pictures of 1926 becoming Warner Brothers' highest-grossing film. The Sea Beast is the first adaptation of Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick, a story about a monomaniacal hunt for a great white whale. However, the film alters the novel's plotline by establishing prequel and sequel elements that are not in the original story—such as the romancing of Esther and Ahab's safe return, respectively—and substitutes a happy ending for Melville's original tragic one. Some of the characters in the film do not appear in Melville's original novel. The film was so successful that in 1930 Warner Bros redid it in English and German, under the title Moby Dick, with Joan Bennett taking the role of Ahab's love because Dolores Costello was pregnant at the time. ## Credits - **Director:** [Millard Webb](https://cinepixo.com/people/millard-webb) - **Screenplay:** [Bess Meredyth](https://cinepixo.com/people/bess-meredyth) - **Director of Photography:** [Byron Haskin](https://cinepixo.com/people/byron-haskin) ## Cast - [Sam Baker](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-baker) - [George O'Hara](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-o-hara) - [John Barrymore](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-barrymore) as Captain Ahab - [Joyzelle Joyner](https://cinepixo.com/people/joyzelle-joyner) - [Dolores Costello](https://cinepixo.com/people/dolores-costello) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-sea-beast-1926 Film facts: Wikidata (Q3794896); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.