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Sermon on Jonah

Orson Welles gives a spell-binding performance as he delivers a sermon at the beginning of the movie Moby Dick (1956). The role of Father Mapple (back in the days when Protestant ministers would often have that title) is based on Father Edward Thompson Taylor, the great Methodist missionary among seamen who was in charge of the Seamen’s Bethel in Boston in the Nineteenth Century.

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Mack Hall
Mack Hall
Thursday, January 28, AD 2010 9:48pm

I still cheered for the whale.

Mack Hall
Mack Hall
Thursday, January 28, AD 2010 9:48pm

But then, I enjoyed TITANIC and BRAVEHEART as light-hearted comedies with happy endings.

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