Billy Budd (Blu-ray)

The H.M.S. Avenger is headed into battle against the French fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, and the dark shadow of two recent mutinies in the English fleet concern Captain Vere.
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  • ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 2.35:1
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 3 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: July 10, 2018
  • Originally Released: 1962
  • Label: Warner Archives

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User Ratings: 467
Rating: 3/4 -- The script thoughtfully examines the dangers of placing the letter of the law over true justice. Full Review
Creative Loafing
Jul 23, 2018
Rating: B -- Terence Stamp received his only Oscar nomination (supporting category)for playing the titular role, the naive and charismatic youth, in Peter Ustinov's version of Melville's classic. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Mar 14, 2012
The problem with well-worn historical themes like the eighteenth-century British navy is how to clean the past of the clichés that now barnacle it... Here we have just the usual costume stuff. Full Review
Esquire Magazine
Jul 10, 2019
In the title role is the year's most promising newcomer: 23-year old Terence Stamp, as a benevolent lad whose innocence and simplicity contain the seeds of his own destruction. Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Oct 11, 2019
Rating: 3/5 -- Director Ustinov indulges his own performance, but otherwise, it's a great yarn well told.
Nick's Flick Picks
Aug 14, 2003

Description by OLDIES.com:

A naive young man is pressed into the service of the British Navy at the very end of the 18th century. He views first hand the cruelty and extreme brutality of the ship's sadistic master-at-arms, and accidentally kills him. He is then tried for his murder.
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Warner Archive Collection

Product Info

  • Sales Rank: 12,775
  • UPC: 888574645052
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
  • International Shipping: 1 item

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