Billy Budd (1962)

Directed by Peter Ustinov

It surprised me just now to look over our archives and find that we haven’t done anything with Herman Melville here at Word and Song, even though both Debra and I are tremendous admirers of his work — and of the man himself, too, who never budged an inch when it came to ginning up an audience for his novels and short stories. The story that was the bas…