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^<•4 ■ Aboard the “ Pequod," the First Mate (Leo Getifi) and Captain A hob (Gregory Peck) shout orders at the height of a storm, in " Moby Dick.” Books of the sea have always been popular. When The Sea Beast was filmed, starring John Barrymore, it was a tremendous success. Now it h«is been made again, using the title of the book from which it has been taken— Moby Dick. It was set in the nineteenth century, and is the story of a whaler, the " Pequod,” the captain of which chases a great white whale, whose name gives the book its title. The company making the film spent months in Ireland and despite the bad weather there are some really great sequences in it. Jules Verne’s " 20,000 I^eagues Under the Sea,” pub- lished in 1870, before the submarine was invented, captured the public imagination with its thrilling story of an underwater ship named " Nautilus.” It was disguised to look like a monster of the deep, with a battering ram snout, electric " eyes,” a series of metallic ridges along its spine and an enormous tail. Jules Verne These ' are the small boats from which the " Pequod ” seamen harpoon the whales in ” Moby Dick.” Leo Genn is the man standing. cleverly anticipated the diving chamber, double-hull construction, atomic p>ower, electricity, and self-contained diving suits. The first scenes of the film were made under the sea round Nassau in the Bahamas, where the sea was clear and warm. Here for eight weeks fifty-four men lived and worked, using more than twenty tons of equipment. From here they moved south to Jamaica, where they worked at Negril on the western side of the island. The giant squid which causes one of the really big thrills in the film was operated from remote controls. In an Itahan film. Human Torpedoes, the story told of Italian frogmen who by underwater warfare raided Gibraltar and Alexandria and attached lim|>et mines, blowing up our shipping during the last war. The Golden Mistress took us to the South Seas and showed us the joys of sailing and underwater swimming. James Mason, Peter Lorre and Kirk Douglas leave the “Nautilus” to go ashore in this scene from Walt Disney’s “ 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” in CinemaScope Technicolor. The “ Nautilus,” seen in the background, was built to resemble a deep sea monster, and its deck could be electrically charged when necessary. Pierre Cressoy in “ Human Torpedoes,” the English- speaking version of an Italian film which was made with the co- operation of the Italian Navy. Left: John Agar and Rosemarie Bowe in " The Golden Mistress.”