From the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia to the New York City docks where he worked as a customs inspector, this outstanding documentary tracks the personal and intellectual adventures of Herman Melville, one of the greatest talents in American literary history. Narrated by John Huston, the film includes readings and commentary by F. Murray Abraham, Robert Penn Warren, Alfred Kazan, and other notable writers and critics.

Cast

F. Murray Abraham

Herman Melville

John Huston

Narrator

Robert Penn Warren

Interview

Emery Battis

Lemuel Shaw

Mikel Lambert

Elizabeth Melville

Lary Lewman

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nancy Lewman

Sophia Hawthorne

Michael Tolaydo

Evert Duyckinck