[Oatka]

To me, a great, too short performance, Royal Dano as Elijah, giving his prophetic warning to Ishmael and Qeequeg (in that striking quavering tone) as they head for the whaler.

[from IMDB]:
"Ishmael: Ehhhh, you can't fool us; it's the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he's got a great secret in him.
Elijah: I have, lad, I have. At sea one day, you'll smell land where there'll be no land, and on that day Ahab will go to his grave, but he'll rise again within the hour. He will rise and beckon. Then all - all save one shall follow. (Slinking away with a smile on his face) Mornin', lads... mornin'. May the heavens bless you."

[elcid1970]

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?