Movie profile

Billy Budd

0.0/ 1019662h 38m

Music

A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Billy Budd be hanged for murder?

Directed by Basil Coleman

The cast

Faces behind the story

Peter Pears

Captain Vere

Peter Glossop

Billy Budd

Michael Langdon

John Claggart

John Shirley-Quirk

Mr. Redburn

Bryan Drake

David Kelly

Kenneth MacDonald

Red Whiskers

David Bowman