Billy Budd

Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd is adapted for the screen in this 1962 film, which is distinguished by {|Robert Krasker|}'s expressive black-and-white cinematography and {|Peter Ustinov|}'s crisp direction. {|Terence Stamp|} is Billy Budd, a seaman forced to serve in the British Navy during the war between England and France in 1797. Billy looks upon all men as inherently good and, although his crew mates are initially skeptical about this sailor who appears too good to be true, he...