1962 Billy Budd Movie Subtitles

1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 2 00:00:21,047 --> 00:00:22,537 Seventeen ninety-seven... 3 00:00:22,715 --> 00:00:26,378 ... the year of the mutinies of the fleet at Spithead and at the Nore... 4 00:00:26,553 --> 00:00:29,351 ... and of the continuing war with republican France. 5 00:00:30,690 --> 00:00:34,786 August the 16th, His Majesty's frigate, Avenger, on a wartime cruise... 6 00:00:34,961 --> 00:00:39,660 ... with orders to reinforce the British squadron off the coast of Spain. 7 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:45,228 John Claggart, master-at-arms, royal navy. 8 00:00:45,405 --> 00:00:49,000 Edwin Fairfax Vere, post captain, royal navy. 9 00:00:49,175 --> 00:00:53,441 The Dansker, sailmaker. 10 00:00:54,147 --> 00:00:56,809 Philip Seymour, first lieutenant. 11 00:00:56,983 --> 00:00:59,645 Julian Ratcliffe, second lieutenant. 12 00:00:59,819 --> 00:01:02,117 Steven Wyatt, gunnery officer. 13 00:01:02,288 --> 00:01:04,813 Enoch Jenkins, maintopman. 14 00:01:04,991 --> 00:01:07,755 Squeak, assistant to Mr. Claggart. 15 00:01:07,927 --> 00:01:10,157 Alan Payne, maintopman. 16 00:01:10,330 --> 00:01:12,958 William O'Daniel, maintopman. 17 00:01:13,132 --> 00:01:15,760 Arnold Talbot, maintopman. 18 00:01:15,935 --> 00:01:18,631 Neil Kincaid, maintopman. 19 00:01:18,805 --> 00:01:22,400 Alfred Hallam, captain of marines. 20 00:01:23,977 --> 00:01:26,275 On the same day, at the same hour... 21 00:01:26,446 --> 00:01:29,313 ... the merchant ship, Rights of Man , out of Dundee... 22 00:01:29,482 --> 00:01:33,384 ... bound for the West Indies with a cargo of manufactured goods. 23 00:01:35,922 --> 00:01:38,789 Nathaniel Graveling, ship's master. 24 00:01:38,958 --> 00:01:41,119 Amos Leonard, first mate. 25 00:01:41,294 --> 00:01:44,661 Charles Mathews, merchant seaman. 26 00:01:45,798 --> 00:01:48,733 Billy Budd, merchant seaman. 27 00:03:04,544 --> 00:03:06,409 - Down a little. - Down a little, sir. 28 00:03:06,579 --> 00:03:10,675 Weren't it better to heave to, sir? She's a man-of-war. 29 00:03:11,351 --> 00:03:13,046 Not an enemy, is she? 30 00:03:13,219 --> 00:03:15,414 No, sir, she's British. 31 00:03:17,557 --> 00:03:19,252 Her name's the Rights of Man , sir. 32 00:03:19,425 --> 00:03:21,950 It's a dangerous name for a vessel in this day and age. 33 00:03:22,128 --> 00:03:24,062 - Is she heaving to? - No, sir. 34 00:03:24,964 --> 00:03:28,161 Aye. It's worse than any enemy. 35 00:03:28,334 --> 00:03:30,802 If she's British, I'll not heave to. 36 00:03:30,970 --> 00:03:33,438 If she's French, she only wants to sink us. 37 00:03:33,606 --> 00:03:37,201 Every seaman leads his life in the expectation of being sunk. 38 00:03:37,377 --> 00:03:41,711 If she's British, she'll want to take my best men from me, and I'll not stand for that. 39 00:03:41,881 --> 00:03:44,076 Hoist the topgallants. 40 00:03:44,250 --> 00:03:46,650 Hoist the topgallants! 41 00:03:46,853 --> 00:03:48,115 Hey, Budd. 42 00:03:48,588 --> 00:03:51,421 Billy Budd, give us a song. 43 00:03:52,125 --> 00:03:56,391 They calls me Hanging Johnny 44 00:03:56,562 --> 00:04:00,726 Away, boys, away 45 00:04:00,900 --> 00:04:05,064 They says I hangs for money 46 00:04:05,238 --> 00:04:09,470 All hang, boys, hang 47 00:04:09,642 --> 00:04:13,738 At first I hanged my Sally 48 00:04:13,913 --> 00:04:17,849 Away, boys, away 49 00:04:18,017 --> 00:04:22,511 And then I hanged my family 50 00:04:23,389 --> 00:04:25,721 She's hoisting more canvas. 51 00:04:27,660 --> 00:04:30,026 - They appear to be singing, sir. - Yes. 52 00:04:30,196 --> 00:04:32,756 Are they so ignorant they cannot understand our purpose? 53 00:04:32,932 --> 00:04:37,198 Oh, I doubt that it's ignorance which motivates their actions, Mr. Ratcliffe. 54 00:04:37,637 --> 00:04:39,628 Captain Hallam. 55 00:04:40,306 --> 00:04:43,241 - Sir? - We all envy your word of command. 56 00:04:43,409 --> 00:04:45,969 Tell them to heave to, if you will, with my compliments. 57 00:04:46,145 --> 00:04:47,612 Ta. 58 00:04:47,980 --> 00:04:51,541 Away, boys, away 59 00:04:51,717 --> 00:04:53,651 Captain's compliments... 60 00:04:53,820 --> 00:04:58,223 ...will you heave to? - Captain, they're ordering us to heave to. 61 00:04:58,391 --> 00:05:01,224 There can be no mistaking their meaning now. 62 00:05:01,427 --> 00:05:05,090 That don't prevent me being a bit hard of hearing, do it? 63 00:05:05,398 --> 00:05:07,389 - Fall off. - Fall off, sir. 64 00:05:07,567 --> 00:05:09,467 I'll get the best I can out of her. 65 00:05:19,779 --> 00:05:22,771 She appears to be falling off to make a fair wind of it, sir. 66 00:05:23,449 --> 00:05:25,644 You sure she's not a Frenchman in disguise, sir? 67 00:05:25,818 --> 00:05:27,911 Nothing so adventurous, I'm afraid, Ratcliffe. 68 00:05:28,087 --> 00:05:30,351 Her refusal to heave to proves she's one of ours. 69 00:05:30,523 --> 00:05:32,889 But I will be obeyed. 70 00:05:33,059 --> 00:05:35,254 Send a shot across her bows. 71 00:05:35,428 --> 00:05:38,124 We're at war, Mr. Seymour. 72 00:05:38,297 --> 00:05:40,527 Fire the bow chaser! 73 00:05:51,010 --> 00:05:55,242 Well, I can't pretend to be blind too, can I? 74 00:05:56,382 --> 00:05:58,680 Back the main yard, Mr. Mate. 75 00:06:02,955 --> 00:06:04,684 Backing the main yard, sir? 76 00:06:04,857 --> 00:06:08,520 There's no avoiding it, man. Get up on the focs'le. 77 00:06:21,908 --> 00:06:24,274 If I spit now, I'd get him fair and square, man. 78 00:06:24,443 --> 00:06:26,434 Why do you waste it on him? He's not so bad. 79 00:06:26,612 --> 00:06:28,842 There's no difference between any of them. 80 00:06:39,825 --> 00:06:41,349 Cast off forward. 81 00:06:41,527 --> 00:06:43,552 And what do you want, then? 82 00:06:43,729 --> 00:06:45,663 Down oars. 83 00:06:46,132 --> 00:06:48,293 All together. 84 00:07:00,146 --> 00:07:02,671 All hands on deck. 85 00:07:02,848 --> 00:07:05,681 All hands right over to the focs'le. 86 00:07:08,554 --> 00:07:12,684 Budd. Billy Budd. Get up aloft again. Maybe they won't see you. 87 00:07:25,271 --> 00:07:27,671 Men lined up already, captain? 88 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:30,365 There's no doubt about your intentions. 89 00:07:30,810 --> 00:07:33,802 Is that why you failed to obey our order? 90 00:07:33,980 --> 00:07:37,848 I never thought I'd see the day when I'd pray for a French sail on the horizon. 91 00:07:38,017 --> 00:07:40,144 A French sail? Why? 92 00:07:40,319 --> 00:07:42,879 Then the royal navy could do its duty for a change... 93 00:07:43,055 --> 00:07:45,649 ...protect our merchant ships instead of preying on them. 94 00:07:45,825 --> 00:07:48,293 You have ideas of your own, captain. 95 00:07:48,461 --> 00:07:50,429 I'm not alone in that. 96 00:08:14,186 --> 00:08:16,347 What's this man's record? 97 00:08:16,656 --> 00:08:19,784 - Good. - He looks a likely man. 98 00:08:19,959 --> 00:08:22,689 What, with the whole of the Nore and the mutiny? 99 00:08:22,862 --> 00:08:26,923 Who's the likely man now, lieutenant? Aye, there was officers killed and all. 100 00:08:28,334 --> 00:08:29,995 Where did you hear this? 101 00:08:30,169 --> 00:08:31,830 Aye, it's common knowledge. 102 00:08:32,004 --> 00:08:34,837 We're not long out of port. The mainland's buzzing with it. 103 00:08:35,007 --> 00:08:38,534 Read the newspapers. They're talking about reforms in the House of Commons. 104 00:08:38,711 --> 00:08:39,939 You know what that means. 105 00:08:40,112 --> 00:08:42,842 It means the reforms are nearly a century overdue. 106 00:08:54,260 --> 00:08:58,526 - Who is that? - Billy. Billy Budd. 107 00:08:59,732 --> 00:09:01,495 According to the rights of war... 108 00:09:01,667 --> 00:09:04,431 ...a man-of-war can impress a seaman from any other vessel. 109 00:09:04,603 --> 00:09:06,935 - Do you understand that, Billy? - Aye, captain. 110 00:09:07,106 --> 00:09:09,233 You also understand there's nothing I can do? 111 00:09:09,408 --> 00:09:10,807 Aye, captain. 112 00:09:11,077 --> 00:09:13,978 You understand too much too well. 113 00:09:14,180 --> 00:09:15,977 Are you at least sorry to be leaving? 114 00:09:16,148 --> 00:09:19,481 Aye, that I **, captain. It's a good ship, this. 115 00:09:19,952 --> 00:09:21,749 You helped make it good. 116 00:09:21,921 --> 00:09:24,583 A man-of-war, you'll find, is different. 117 00:09:25,358 --> 00:09:27,553 - Different, sir? - Aye, Billy. 118 00:09:28,728 --> 00:09:32,289 Do your work well, keep your mouth shut, except at meal times. 119 00:09:33,466 --> 00:09:35,627 It's not as it is here. 120 00:09:36,135 --> 00:09:39,662 Now, there's a good lad. Go forward and get your gear. 121 00:09:39,839 --> 00:09:41,466 Aye, captain. 122 00:09:56,822 --> 00:09:58,380 My compliments to your captain. 123 00:09:58,557 --> 00:10:01,720 Tell him I regret I do not command a faster ship. 124 00:10:04,497 --> 00:10:06,488 Cast off forward. 125 00:10:08,167 --> 00:10:10,067 Take that oar. 126 00:10:10,503 --> 00:10:12,437 Up together. 127 00:10:32,191 --> 00:10:34,455 God go with you, Billy Budd... 128 00:10:34,627 --> 00:10:37,755 ...for it's a fact that you go with God. 129 00:10:38,297 --> 00:10:40,458 Goodbye to you all. 130 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:44,558 - Goodbye to you too, old Rights of Man. - What do...