Cover image for Billy Budd [DVD video]
Title:
Billy Budd [DVD video]
Added Author:
Ustinov, Peter, actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer.

Ryan, Robert, 1909-1973, actor.

Douglas, Melvyn, actor.

Stamp, Terence, actor.

Coxe, Louis O., 1918-1993. Billy Budd.

Motion picutre adaptation of (work): Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. Billy Budd.
Publication Date:
2007
Publication Information:
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2007]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 123 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9781419843105
Abstract:
An innocent, naive British Naval seaman is accused of and tried for murdering the sadistic master-at-arms.
General Note:
Title from container.

DVD-R; may not be compatible with older DVD players

Originally released as a motion picture in 1962.

Based upon the play Billy Budd / by Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman, from the novel Billy Budd, Foretopman / by Herman Melville.

Special features: Commentary by Terence Stamp and filmmaker Steven Soderbergh; theatrical trailer.
Performers:
Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Terence Stamp.
Technical Details:
DVD, region 1, letterbox widescreen presentation, enhanced for widescreen TVs; Dolby Digital mono.
Subject Term:
Sailors -- Great Britain -- Drama.

Murder -- Drama.

Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- Drama.

Good and evil -- Drama.
Geographic Term:
Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 18th century -- Drama.
Genre:
Feature films.

Action and adventure films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Film adaptations.

War films.

Fiction films.
Language:
English
Additional Language:
Closed-captioned.
Added Corporate Author:
Warner Home Video (Firm), publisher.
Audience:
Rating: Not rated.
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