Billy Budd
Summary:
Herman Melville's short novel -Billy Budd is adapted for the screen, distinguished by Robert Krasker's expressive black-and-white cinematography and Peter Ustinov's crisp direction. Terence Stamp is Billy Budd, a seaman forced to serve in the British Navy during the war between England and France in 1797. Billy looks upon all men as inherently good and, although his c... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Robert Ryan - (Master-at-Arms Claggart)
Peter Ustinov - (Capt. Edward Fairfax Vere)
Melvyn Douglas - (The Dansker)
Terence Stamp - (Billy Budd)
John Neville - (Lt. John Ratcliffe)
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Review:
Herman Melville was one of America's fiercest, most abstruse writers, and the unfinished novella -Billy Budd contains many of the author's hallmarks. Like his most famous work, -Moby Dick, Budd is an allegory of powerful proportions, based on an actual naval event, and has invited widely disparate interpretations. The fall from Eden... Continue >>
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