BILLY BUDD

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• Release Year: 1962
• Genre: Adventure
• Plot: It's 1797, and the English frigate Avenger sails wartime seas, ready to engage the French navy in the broadside-for-broadside of combat. But there's another warfare going on, a conflict aboard the king's ship. It's the battle of good versus evil, the powerful theme of Herman Melville's seafaring Billy Budd.; Film-debuting (and 1962 Best Supporting Actor Oscar® nominee) Terence Stamp plays the title role, an archetype of goodness on the man o' war. Robert Ryan portrays the master-at-arms, efficient and cruel - especially so to young Billy. And director Peter Ustinov plays the captain caught between the inevitable clash of polar opposites. Will good triumph? Perhaps not in Melville's world. Perhaps never in a merciless time of war. ;
• Cast: Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers, John Neville, David McCallum, Ronald Lewis, Lee Montague, Thomas Heathcote, Ray McAnally, Robert Brown, John Meillon, Cyril Luckham, Niall MacGinnis, Victor Brooks, Barry Keegan, Terence Stamp, John Hewer, Bob Head, George Leech, Jack Sharp, Ian Whittaker, Fred Wood, Louis O. Coxe, Robert H. Chapman, Herman Melville, DeWitt Bodeen, Robert Rossen
• Director: Peter Ustinov
• Runtime: 2:03
• Company: Warner Bros.
• Media Format: Movie