Was it Stubbs who said, “If God had wanted to be a fish, He’d be a whale, son, He’d be a whale!!”
And didn’t Charlton Heston portray the preacher in the whalers’ chapel who climbed a rope ladder into the pulpit shaped like a bowsprit?
No, the preacher Reverend Mapple was played by Orson Welles.
If we’re talking about the version with Richard Basehart as Ishmael, the preacher was played by Orson Welles.
No, that was Orson Welles.