A question about Billy Budd (Spoiler Alert!)
I just saw it tonight. It was made way back in 1962 in glorious B&W, and starred Peter Ustinov, Robert Ryan, and a very young Terrance Stamp as Billy. It was very good, a film akin to Mutiny on the Bounty. I give it an 7.8/10.
But I have a question. At the end the British ship, the HMS Avenger, is fired upon by a French ship. The British and French were at war at the time. At the end we see a man's arm protruding from under a fallen mast, presumably dead. Was this the Captain (Peter Ustinov)? That was my interpretation.
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