Billy Budd [videorecording] / Allied Artists Pictures Corporation presents ; screenplay by Peter Ustinov and DeWitt Bodeen ; produced and directed by Peter Ustinov.
Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Terence Stamp. Originally released as a motion picture in 1962. Based upon the play "Billy Budd" by Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman ; from the novel "Billy Budd, Foretopman" by Herman Melville. Special features: Commentary by Terence Stamp and filmmaker Steven Soderbergh; theatrical trailer.
Summary:
An innocent, naive British Naval seaman is accused and tried of murdering the sadistic master-at-arms.
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