Some stories are simply so good, and so applicable to various professions and lifestyles, that you can't tell them just once. Whenever a filmmaker makes a movie about a protagonist pursuing an all-consuming obsession that unnecessarily places himself and his colleagues in danger, you figure they're taking their crack at Herman Melville's "Moby Dick." Films as different as Steven Spielberg's "Jaws," David Lean's "The Bridge on the River Kwai" and Ron Howard's tepid retelling of the actual event that inspired Melville's novel, "In the Heart of the Sea," have all investigated such madness. Appropriately, though, it's possible no one's hit the nail on the head more squarely than John Huston.

Huston was the perfect director for "Moby Dick" because, to a certain extent, he'd gone very close t

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