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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Blu-ray BD-R Details
- 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
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas & Terence Stamp | |
Performer: | Paul Rogers, John Neville, Ronald Lewis, David McCallum, Lee Montague, John Meillon, Ray McAnally, Robert Brown & Niall MacGinnis | |
Directed by | Peter Ustinov | |
Edited by | Jack Harris | |
Screenplay by | Peter Ustinov & DeWitt Bodeen | |
Composition by | Antony Hopkins | |
Art Direction by | Peter Murton | |
Produced by | Peter Ustinov | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Krasker |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
The script thoughtfully examines the dangers of placing the letter of the law over true justice.
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Creative Loafing
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.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
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.
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Esquire Magazine
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.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 3/5 --
Director Ustinov indulges his own performance, but otherwise, it's a great yarn well told.
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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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- Sales Rank: 12,775
- UPC: 888574645052
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