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.

Before the celebrations conclude, BCHS has a set of final events that honor the novel and its discovery — a screening of the 1962 British film, "Billy Budd," and two opportunities to record a piece of ...

But it is the opera “Billy Budd” and the 1962 film that sealed its place in gay history at a time when there was little such popular culture to hold onto. Consider the film: Noël Coward once ...

Billy Budd was adapted as a play in 1947 and as an opera in 1951, both very successful. The 1962 film version starred Peter Ustinov as Captain Vere, Robert Ryan as Claggart and Terrence Stamp as ...

It’s a movie as minimal and taciturn, yet inwardly turbulent, as its villain or anti-hero, Sgt. Galoup. In “Billy Budd” — which was made into a fine but now sadly neglected 1962 film by ...

Today theatre critic Diana Simmonds on the 1962 film Billy Budd, an adaptation of the Hermann Melville short novel. It was adapted by Peter Ustinov from a stage play version, and Ustinov also ...

and will culminate on November 13 with a screening of the 1962 film "Billy Budd" directed by Peter Ustinov and starring Terence Stamp as Billy Budd. Meanwhile, limited copies of a centennial ...

Billy Budd is the allegorical tale of the clash of an incredibly good-hearted young foretopman and an inhumanly sadistic master-at-arms aboard a British fighting vessel in 1797, and the issue of ...