EIN HANES-JOHN HUSTON KNEW MY FATHER: MOBY DICK AND OTHER FISHY TALES.

Venue: Theatr Gwaun

Date: Wednesday September 9th

Time: 6:00pm

‘There are times when fiction is truer than truth’. 

Bill Hamblett recalls how his dad’s fantasy novel, The Crazy Kill, was inspired by true events surrounding the filming of Moby Dick, and led to a small boy rubbing shoulders with Hollywood royalty.

The man organising the giant lantern parade at Fishguard and Goodwick’s Ar Ymyl y Tir/On Land’s Edge Moby Dick-themed festival has a unique connection with the great white whale.

Bill Hamblett, director of Cardigan’s Small World Theatre, was a near-neighbour of leading man Gregory Peck in California during the late 1950s and his father, Charles, a Hollywood screenwriter who worked on John Huston’s classic 1956 movie.

Bill has offbeat recollections on the creation of Huston’s masterpiece, as well as his own family’s colourful background including a link to John Lennon!