Moby Dick (1956 film) Moby Dick (1956 film) Moby Dick is a 1956 film adaptation of Herman Melville's novel "Moby-Dick". It was directed by John Huston with a screenplay by Huston and Ray Bradbury. The film starred Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, and Leo Genn. The music score was written by Philip Sainton. Set in 19th-century New England, the story follows the whaling ship "Pequod" and its crew. Leading them is Captain Ahab, who was almost killed in an encounter with the "great white whale", Moby Dick, which bit off much of his left leg. Now he is out for revenge. With the crew that
The Ship Who Sang in the series, "The Ship Who Searched" (1992) by McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey, Einstein observes that in fact we have The 1960s stories feature one shell person, Helva, who becomes brainship XH-834. All but the novella "Dramatic Mission" are novelettes, short fiction in 7500 to 17,500 words. They were incorporated in "The Ship Who Sang" novel (1969) as the first five chapters with a new closing chapter or short story, "The Partnered Ship". McCaffrey wrote two more Helva novelettes: The Ship series comprises the Helva stories and six novels published in the 1990s by Baen Books. More than twenty years