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Ratcliffe. What?

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Description: When a good-hearted sailor accidentally kills the master-at-arms, his superiors have to decide whether to hang him or set him free.

Cast:
John Claggart - Master of Arms: Robert Ryan
Edwin Fairfax Vere - Post Captain Royal Navy: Peter Ustinov
The Dansker - Sailmaker: Melvyn Douglas
Philip Seymour - First Lieutenant: Paul Rogers
Julian Radcliffe - Second Lieutenant: John Neville
Steven Wyatt - Gunnery Officer: David McCallum
Enoch Jenkins - Maintopman: Ronald Lewis
Squeak - Assistant to Mr. Claggart: Lee Montague
Alan Payne - Maintopman: Thomas Heathcote
William O'Daniel - Maintopman: Ray McAnally
Arnold Talbot - Maintopman: Robert Brown
Neil Kincaid - Maintopman: John Meillon
Alfred Hallam - Captain of Marines: Cyril Luckham
Nathaniel Graveling - Ship's Master, Rights of Man: Niall MacGinnis
Amos Leonard - First Mate, Rights of Man: Victor Brooks
Charles Mathews - Merchant Seaman, Rights of Man: Barry Keegan
Billy Budd - Merchant Seaman, Rights of Man: Terence Stamp
Dubbing: John Hewer
Ship's Cook: Bob Head
Marine: George Leech
Crewman HMS Avenger: Fred Wood
Young Rating: Ian Whittaker

Written by: Louis O. Coxe, Robert H. Chapman, Herman Melville

Director: Peter Ustinov

Production: Anglo Allied

Release date: 12 Nov 1962