Billy Budd (1962)

★ 7.3/10 119 min Drama, Action United Kingdom English

Director: Peter Ustinov

Novel: Herman Melville
Screenplay by: Peter Ustinov, DeWitt Bodeen
Theatre Plays: Robert H. Chapman, Louis O. Coxe

Streaming: Not available

The men! The mutiny! The might of the greatest adventure classic of the high seas!

Description

Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.

Terence Stamp Billy Budd

Robert Ryan John Claggart, Master of Arms

Peter Ustinov Edwin Fairfax Vere, Post Captain

Melvyn Douglas The Dansker, Sailmaker

Paul Rogers Philip Seymour, 1st Lieutenant

John Neville Julian Ratcliffe, 2nd Lieutenant

David McCallum Steven Wyatt, Gunnery Officer

Ronald Lewis Enoch Jenkins, Maintopman