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Billy Budd

1962, Movie, NR, 123 mins

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BILLY BUDD is a "what might have been" picture. The story was almost impossible to make into a movie because it's more of an operatic plot, replete with good and evil allegorically depicted. Stamp stars as Billy, an ingenuous young man sadistically treated by Ryan, master-at-arms aboard a late 18th-century fighting ship of the British navy. Ustinov, who also produced, directed, and cowrote the screenplay with Robert Rossen, is the captain of the ship, a man who stands in the... read more
Year: 1962
Rated NR

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Cast
Robert Ryan: Master-at-Arms Claggart
Peter Ustinov: Capt. Edward Fairfax Vere
Melvyn Douglas: The Dansker
Terence Stamp: Billy Budd
John Neville: Lt. John Ratcliffe
Ronald Lewis: Jenkins

 

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