The read
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 84% of the 781 1960s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes92%
Critics rate it 14 points higher than audiences do.
81 audience votes
Key crew
- Peter UstinovDirector
- Antony HopkinsOriginal Music Composer
- Peter UstinovScreenplay
- DeWitt BodeenScreenplay
Cast
- Terence StampBilly Budd
- Robert RyanJohn Claggart, Master of Arms
- Peter UstinovEdwin Fairfax Vere, Post Captain
- Melvyn DouglasThe Dansker, Sailmaker
- Paul RogersPhilip Seymour, 1st Lieutenant
- John NevilleJulian Ratcliffe, 2nd Lieutenant
- David McCallumSteven Wyatt, Gunnery Officer
- Ronald LewisEnoch Jenkins, Maintopman
- Lee MontagueSqueak, Mr. Claggart's assistant
- Thomas HeathcoteAlan Payne, Maintopman
- Ray McAnallyWilliam O'Daniel, Maintopman
- Robert BrownArnold Talbot, Maintopman
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Themes
mutinycourt casewar shiphomicide
The Best Movies of 1962
Billy Budd is #19 of 59
