Billy Budd

     

Billy Budd1962

Director: Peter Ustinov
Stars: Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers, John Neville
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 123 minutes

Perhaps no Benjamin Britten opera so forcefully explores the composer's recurring theme of the destruction of innocence as Billy Budd, adapted from the Herman Melville novella about an angelic midshipman who is fated to his demise when he clashes … more »


Master At Arms Claggert:
The sea is calm you said. Peaceful. Calm above, but below a world of gliding monsters preying on their fellows. Murderers, all of them. Only the strongest teeth survive. And who's to tell me it's any different here on board, or yonder on dry land?"

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