Bizarrely, Orson Welles played Captain Ahab, Starbuck & Ishmael in a 1971 experimental film version of this
The play was 
staged June ... Welles filmed approximately 75 minutes of the production, with the 
original cast, at the ... Orson Welles, An Actor Manager/Father Mapple/Ahab ... 
film project in 1971, wherein Welles filmed 22 minutes of various scenes from the 
play,... [DOC] [TLE] Movie Review - - Screen: John Huston and Melville's White Whale ... [PAR] Now the intent of Captain Ahab, master of the whale ship and crew that go on a ... 
Orson Welles is good as Father Mapple, but his sermon is nigh superfluous.