anyone here say the 1956 film

[Gamma]

moby dick with gregory peck (i know it sounds like an adult film but...). there is a scene in there where they are singing "hill and gully rider"

[Stonigut]

Gamma loved this point you raised, had to track it down, here is what I found, can't really substantiate it any more that what you see here.

Apparently Mr. Edric was a Trini!??


The story of how Edric Connor, in the role of Daggoo, introduced the song into the film of Moby Dick is quoted from an interview with his widow Pearl Connor Mogotsi in the book Black in the British Frame by Stephen Bourne:-

'Hill and Gully Rider' is about the undulating land in Jamaica, but it was the undulating sea of Moby Dick, the ocean where they were looking for the whale, where Edric introduced the song. And it is a lyrical, lilting song, a beautiful thing that the director John Huston loved straight away. And Edric was always trying to do that, introduce Caribbean music into the films he worked on, and letting people know about our songs. So Huston allowed him to have an input, which was very good for Edric, and good for the film, also, I should think.

[Sir X]

One of my favs , Capt ahab.

[Sir X]

The song used in the film spoke of the ups and downs the trials and tribulations of men hunting , in true Jamaican workmanship the work was hard, fun and of love , because it took a special breed to hunt a whale that they new would bring them death, this they new and loved it and pursued it dilligently to the end, something Jamaican about that , hard work, fun ,love and certain death.