Billy Budd
movie
View on VideBits →An opera by Benjamin Britten, on a libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier, adapted from the story by Herman Melville. Billy Budd is a young sailor aboard a British man-o'-war, persecuted by his master-at-arms, Claggart. Accused of mutiny, Budd accidently strikes Claggart dead, leaving Captain Vere with no choice but to hang him.
Cast & crew
Phillip Guy-Bromley · Barrie Gavin · Thomas Allen · Philip Langridge · E.M. Forster · Herman Melville · Neil Howlett · Edward Byles · Eric Crozier · Richard van Allen · Clive Bayley