Movie
Captain Horatio Hornblower
Action/adventure film with a runtime of 116 minutes, released in 1950. Presented in English.
At a Glance
Synopsis
Raoul Walsh's Napoleonic naval adventure-romance, shot in England and France, stars Gregory Peck (in the role initially intended for Errol Flynn) and is based on three novels by CS Forester. A few years after the start of the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Horatio Hornblower is dispatched by the Admiralty on a secret mission to supply a Central American rebel, 'el Supremo', with arms and thus undermine Spain's grip on its New World colonies. Along the way, Hornblower and the crew of HMS Lydia engage in a running with a much bigger Spanish warship, the ' Natividad ' ; help the Duke of Wellington's sister, Lady Barbara Wellesley, to escape an outbreak of yellow fever in the Caribbean; and, of course, take every opportunity to harry the French and disrupt their campaign in the Iberian peninsula.
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Cast
- Gregory Peck
- Virginia Mayo
- Robert Beatty
- James Robertson Justice
- Denis O'Dea
- Terence Morgan
- Richard Hearne
- James Kenney
- Moultrie Kelsall
- Michael Dolan
- Stanley Baker
- John Witty
- Christopher Lee
- Kynaston Reeves
- Ingeborg Wells
- Ronald Adam
- Michael Goodliffe
- Amy Veness
- Alec Mango
- Jack Harris
- C.S. Forester
- Guy Green
- Aeneas MacKenzie
- Ivan Goff
- Ben Roberts
