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Billy Budd

Author: Peter UstinovDeWitt BodeenAntony HopkinsRobert KraskerLouis Osborne CoxeAll authors
Publisher: [S.l.] : Allied Artists, [2006]
Series: Allied Artists classics.
Edition/Format:   DVD video : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
"Set in 1797, Billy Budd (Terence Stamp) is a young, naïve seaman on a British Man-o-war. When the sadistic Master-at-arms John Claggart (Robert Ryan) is murdered, Billy is accused and tried. Budd's strong belief in goodness is threatened by Claggart's equally strong force of evil; the consequences are both tragic and lasting"--Container.
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Genre/Form: Film adaptations
Named Person: Herman Melville; Louis Osborne Coxe; Robert Harris Chapman
Material Type: Videorecording
Document Type: Visual material
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Ustinov; DeWitt Bodeen; Antony Hopkins; Robert Krasker; Louis Osborne Coxe; Robert Harris Chapman; Jack Harris; Robert Ryan; Melvyn Douglas; Paul Rogers; John Neville; David McCallum; Ronald Lewis; Lee Montague; Thomas Heathcote; Terence Stamp; Herman Melville; Anglo-Allied Pictures, Ltd.; Allied Artists Pictures Corporation.; Allied Artists Entertainment, Inc.
OCLC Number: 71251189
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.
Based on the play Billy Budd by Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman, from the novel Billy Budd foretopman, by Herman Melville.
Credits: Music, Antony Hopkins; director of photography, Robert Krasker; film editor, Jack Harris.
Cast: Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Terence Stamp, Paul Rogers, John Neville, David McCallum, Ronald Lewis.
Description: 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Details: DVD; Dobly stereo.
Series Title: Allied Artists classics.
Other Titles: Billy Budd
Responsibility: Allied Artists Pictures Corporation ; Anglo-Allied Pictures, Ltd. ; produced and directed by Peter Ustinov ; screenplay by Peter Ustinov, DeWitt Bodeen.
Local System Bib Number:
211722

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"Set in 1797, Billy Budd (Terence Stamp) is a young, naïve seaman on a British Man-o-war. When the sadistic Master-at-arms John Claggart (Robert Ryan) is murdered, Billy is accused and tried. Budd's strong belief in goodness is threatened by Claggart's equally strong force of evil; the consequences are both tragic and lasting"--Container.
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