Billy Budd (1962)★ 7.8/10

Approved · GB · 123 min · September 20, 1962

• Adventure
• Drama
• War

Directed by: Peter Ustinov

Written by: Peter Ustinov, DeWitt Bodeen, Louis O. Coxe, Robert H. Chapman, Herman Melville

When a kind-hearted sailor is made to join an English vessel at war in 1797, he finds himself caught between devotion to his crewmates and obedience to their hated, cruel master-at-arms.