Moby Dick (1956 film) eyes. The head apparatus which could move like a rocking horse was employed when actors were in the water with the whale. Gregory Peck's last speech is delivered in the studio while riding the white whale's hump (a hole was drilled in the side of the whale so Peck could conceal his real leg). The "Pequod" was portrayed by, appropriately, the "Moby Dick". Built in England in 1887 as the "Ryelands", the ship came into the hands of the film industry in the 50s, and was also used in "Treasure Island". It was destroyed by fire in Morecambe, England in
Wooden Leg but they both died in their youth. After the death of the last daughter, he and his wife decided to adopt the son of his sister, John White Wolf. In a 1903 interview with Thomas B. Marquis, a former agency physician for the Cheyenne, Wooden Leg related a great deal of information about Cheyenne life prior to the reservations and the battle of Little Bighorn. His account is published in the book "". Wooden Leg died in 1940. Wooden Leg Wooden Leg (Cheyenne "Kâhamâxéveóhtáhe") (1858–1940) was a Northern Cheyenne warrior who fought against Custer at the Battle of the Little