General Motors Theatre Billy Budd
26 Apr 1955 Written by Herman Melville William Shatner, Basil Rathbone, Patrick Macnee Set in the year 1783 aboard H.M.S. Indomitable, then at war with the French, an innocent young sailor is hung from the ship's mast as a result of violence and corruption among the crew. General Motors Theatre (also known as CBC Theatre, Encounter, Ford Television Theatre, and General Motors Presents) was a Canadian television anthology drama series of television plays, which ran on CBC Television under various titles from September 18, 1952, until January 1, 1961, and in the US on ABC from October 5 to November 2, 1958.[1] The series mainly consisted of one-hour episodes of romance, adventure, or mystery stories, with some social realist drama plays.
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