Billy Budd (1962)

1962 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom

Billy Budd (1962)
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Adventure Drama Sea Adventures Legal Drama Army 18th Century Napoleonic Wars

H.M.S. Avenger is headed into battle against the French fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, and the dark shadow of two recent mutinies in the English fleet concern Captain Vere. He relies on his cruel and often sadistic Master-at-Arms John Claggert to maintain what he believes to be tenuous order and discipline aboard the ship. When a new seaman, Billy Budd, is pressed into service from a passing merchantman, his innocent, happy-go-lucky attitude quickly endears him to both his messmates as well as the ship's officers. However, his charismatic naivete seems to bother Claggert, whose perverse depravity makes him resent Billy's good-natured purity, especially after the teenager's promotion to fore-top captain. The mean-spirited Claggert unfairly plots to put him on report and ultimately perjures himself when he accuses Billy of conspiring to mutiny.

Direction Peter Ustinov

Cast Robert Ryan · Peter Ustinov · Terence Stamp · Melvyn Douglas · Paul Rogers · John Neville · David McCallum · Ronald Lewis · Lee Montague · Ray McAnally · Robert Brown · Thomas Heathcote · John Meillon · Cyril Luckham · Niall MacGinnis · Victor Brooks · Barry Keegan

Soundtrack Antony Hopkins

Screenplay Peter Ustinov · DeWitt Bodeen · Robert Rossen · Louis O. Coxe · Robert H. Chapman · Herman Melville

Cinematography Robert Krasker

Original title Billy Budd

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