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Billy Budd [videorecording] / Title on container: Herman Melville's Billy Budd in CinemaScope - Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007] - 1 videodisc (ca. 123 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1962 by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. Based upon the play Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman; from the novel "Billy Budd foretopman" by Robert H. Chapman Special features: Commentary by Terence Stamp and filmmaker Steven Soderberg; theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, Robert Krasker; music, Antony Hopkins; editor, Jack Harris. Director of photography, Robert Krasker; music, Antony Hopkins; editor, Jack Harris.

Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Terence Stamp.

An innocent, naive British Naval seaman is accused and tried of murdering the sadistic master-at-arms.

Rating: Not rated.


DVD, NTSC, region 1, letterbox widescreen presentation, enhanced for widescreen TVs; Dolby Digital mono., dual layer.


Closed-captioned.

ISBN: 1419843168 (set) 9781419843167 (set)

Standard No.:

Publisher. No.: 110801 Warner Home Video 110804 Warner Home Video 110812 Warner Home Video (set)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sailors--Great Britain--Drama.
Murder--Drama.
Good and evil--Drama.
Feature films.
Action and adventure films.
Films for the hearing impaired.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Adventure--Feature.
Adaptation--Feature.

LC Class. No.: PN1995.9.A3 / B5559 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 791.43/72