[Oatka]

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, that was Orson Welles.

[elcid1970]

Boy, have I been beaten up for putting the wrong actor in the whaler’s pulpit!

But I remember for a fact how easily he scaled that rope ladder to mount into the pulpit. Welles was 41 at the time and not yet obese.

That’s why I thought it might have been Charlton Heston.