Billy Budd

Billy Budd

119 mins | Drama, Action | Nov. 12, 1962

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.

Billy Budd

119 mins | Drama, Action | Nov. 12, 1962

Billy Budd
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.
IMDb rating 7.8
Producers Anglo Allied
Original title Billy Budd
Directors Peter Ustinov
Writers Robert H. Chapman, Louis O. Coxe, DeWitt Bodeen, Herman Melville, Peter Ustinov

Cast

Terence Stamp

as Billy Budd

Robert Ryan

as John Claggart, Master of Arms

Peter Ustinov

as Edwin Fairfax Vere, Post Captain

Melvyn Douglas

as The Dansker, Sailmaker

Paul Rogers

as Philip Seymour, 1st Lieutenant

John Neville

as Julian Ratcliffe, 2nd Lieutenant

David McCallum

as Steven Wyatt, Gunnery Officer

Ronald Lewis

as Enoch Jenkins, Maintopman

Lee Montague

as Squeak, Mr. Claggart's assistant

Thomas Heathcote

as Alan Payne, Maintopman

Ray McAnally

as William O'Daniel, Maintopman

Robert Brown

as Arnold Talbot, Maintopman

John Meillon

as Neil Kincaid, Maintopman

Cyril Luckham

as Hallam, Captain of Marines

Niall MacGinnis

as Captain Nathaniel Graveling