Billy Budd (1966)
A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Billy Budd be hanged for murder?
- Date of release
- 1966-12-11
- Runtime
- 2h 38m
- Genres
- Music
- Director
- Basil Coleman
Casting
- 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
- Dennis Wicks
- Robert Tear
- Robert Bowman
- Delme Bryn Jones
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