Talk:Moby Dick—Rehearsed

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Generally, plot summaries are written in the present tense, but this seems to be a summary a specific performance rather than of the work itself, so I left is in the past tense. I'm not sure if the Patrick McGoohan reference is a quote from the book or an abridgement. Either way, it could be cleaned up. JethroElfman 02:25, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree this details a specific perfomance and not a general telling of a plot. Also, without a citation, it's hard to define the McGoohan reference. --Malecasta 08:09, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Peter Sallis / Christopher Lee??
In his autobiography Fading into the Limelight (Orion, 2006), the veteran character actor Peter Sallis records that he played the part of Flask in the stage production, and in the aborted film, giving an account of the production and the problems which led to it being abandoned. The article (presumably sourced from The Films of Christopher Lee, although it isn't entirely clear) says that Lee played the part. I imagine only one of these can be correct - which one? Ghughesarch (talk) 22:07, 23 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Interesting question. It has spurred me into ordering Mr. Sallis' book. It'll be awhile until I arrives and I get a chance to read it but until then I would say this. It is a possibility that they may both be correct in a way. If you know any of the tortured filming history of some of Welles' films you will be aware that filming could stop for days/weeks/months at a time. I could easily see Sallis being a part of the cast at one point and Lee at another. Lee's info seems pretty concrete but it also seems that he was only a part of the film. Thus, another possibility is that Sallis was associated with both the film and stage but he had a different role in the film. Each of these fine actors has had so many roles over the course of their career that the mists of time might be playing with their memories of their involvement in this film. This is all guesswork of course and, since the film is lost, we may never know the final answer. I was fortunate enough to see this play performed many years ago and your question brought back memories of that occasion so thanks for that also. More to follow down the road. MarnetteD | Talk 23:56, 23 October 2010 (UTC)


 * It is odd that in both cases we have to rely on actors' memories of events - Peter Sallis is very clear on details of the filming, but then so is Christopher Lee in the online interviews I've seen on the subject. Though both were speaking long after the event, and both may, perhaps, be given to embroidering their careers (I find that slightly easier to believe of Lee than Sallis, for some reason). The Lee interviews and the Sallis book, however, do give essentially the same account - filming took place over a week or two, at the Hackney Empire, then the money ran out. Sallis continues with an anecdote about Patrick McGoohan being lured to Italy by Welles to do some further work on the film, though, the end of which (McGoohan finding Welles in front of backdrops, narrating Around the World with Orson Welles, and being amazed to find that it was all shot on a sound stage), doesn't ring true at all (not least because it clearly wasn't studio work). But Sallis doesn't mention Lee, and gets the rest of the cast right. Ghughesarch (talk) 00:13, 24 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the reply. My thoughts about extended filming time obviously don't apply. I concur with your feelings about the reliability of Sallis over Lee. I wonder what the 22 minute short film that they mention has to do with any of this. It is an interesting coincidence that Huston's film of Moby Dick was released in '56 the very next year! There is one other interesting coincidence going on. I hazard a guess that I may be the only other active editor that has this page on their watchlist. Your question might have sat here without a reply for who knows how long. So let me just say it has been pleasant to bump into you. The little bit of info that you have related from Fading into the Limelight has made me even more excited to read it. Cheers and happy editing. MarnetteD | Talk 02:33, 24 October 2010 (UTC)


 * Nice to "meet" you too. Having just looked again at Peter Sallis' book, he's not actually explicit in saying he played the same part in the film as on stage, only that the film was made with the stage cast, and that he was in the film. But I'd have expected him to mention Christopher Lee as he comes across as a consummate (but very charming) namedropper! Ghughesarch (talk) 12:01, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

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