Billy Budd

Movie Summary: 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.

Queer Film LA Says: Herman Melville was likely gay, and his iconic novel Billy Budd about the obsession between a young sailor and a senior officer was adapted into this 1962 film, as well as the homoerotic Beau Travail.