"Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried."
Terence Stamp
as Billy Budd
Robert Ryan
as John Claggart, Master of Arms
Peter Ustinov
as Edwin Fairfax Vere, Post Captain
Melvyn Douglas
as The Dansker, Sailmaker
Paul Rogers
as Philip Seymour, 1st Lieutenant
John Neville
as Julian Ratcliffe, 2nd Lieutenant
David McCallum
as Steven Wyatt, Gunnery Officer
Ronald Lewis
as Enoch Jenkins, Maintopman
Lee Montague
as Squeak, Mr. Claggart's assistant
Thomas Heathcote
as Alan Payne, Maintopman
Ray McAnally
as William O'Daniel, Maintopman
Robert Brown
as Arnold Talbot, Maintopman
John Meillon
as Neil Kincaid, Maintopman
Cyril Luckham
as Hallam, Captain of Marines
Niall MacGinnis
as Captain Nathaniel Graveling
Screenplay
Antony Hopkins
Original Music Composer
Robert H. Chapman
Theatre Play
DeWitt Bodeen
Director
Louis O. Coxe
Herman Melville
Novel
Jack Harris
Editor
Producer
Robert Krasker
Director of Photography
Tom Buchanan
Boom Operator