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.

When a new seaman, Billy Budd (Terence Stamp), is pressed into service from a passing merchantman, his innocent, happy-go-lucky attitude quickly endears him to his messmates as well as the ship's ...

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 ...

Billy Budd was the last piece of prose produced ... Peter Ustinov filmed it in 1962, with Terence Stamp making his movie debut as a bleached-blond Billy; and Morrissey recycled the title for ...

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 ...