Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise

7.0 1985 88 min
Documentary

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 t…

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Robert D. Squier

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F. Murray Abraham Herman Melville
Robert Penn Warren Interview
John Huston Narrator
Emery Battis Lemuel Shaw
Mikel Lambert Elizabeth Melville
Larry Lewman Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nancy Lewman Sophia Hawthorne
Michael Tolaydo Evert Duyckinck

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