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Billy Budd
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
Peter Ustinov
Casts & Crew
Terence Stamp
Robert Ryan
Peter Ustinov
Melvyn Douglas
Paul Rogers
John Neville
David McCallum
Ronald Lewis
Lee Montague
Thomas Heathcote
Ray McAnally
Robert Brown
John Meillon
Cyril Luckham
Niall MacGinnis
Also Directed by Peter Ustinov
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