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Billy Budd
Directed by
Peter Ustinov
Approved
1962
1h 59m
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7.8
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When a kind-hearted sailor is made to join an English vessel at war in 1797, he finds himself caught between devotion to his crewmates and obedience to their hated, cruel master-at-arms.
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Cast of Billy Budd
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
Lee Montague
Squeak, Mr. Claggart's assistant
Thomas Heathcote
Alan Payne, Maintopman
Ray McAnally
William O'Daniel, Maintopman
Robert Brown
Arnold Talbot, Maintopman
John Meillon
Neil Kincaid, Maintopman
Cyril Luckham
Hallam, Captain of Marines
Niall MacGinnis
Captain Nathaniel Graveling
Billy Budd Ratings & Reviews
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Terence Stamp received his only Oscar nomination (supporting category)for playing the titular role, the naive and charismatic youth, in Peter Ustinov's version of Melville's classic.
Nick's Flick Picks
Nick Davis
Director Ustinov indulges his own performance, but otherwise, it's a great yarn well told.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
The script thoughtfully examines the dangers of placing the letter of the law over true justice.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It's a story better suited for the book than the screen.
Esquire Magazine
Dwight MacDonald
The problem with well-worn historical themes like the eighteenth-century British navy is how to clean the past of the clichés that now barnacle it... Here we have just the usual costume stuff.
Film Quarterly
Pauline Kael
A clean, honest work of intelligence and craftsmanship.
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