Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

1951 117 min ★ 6.9 Adventure, War, History

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.

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Cast

Gregory Peck

Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N

Virginia Mayo

Lady Barbara Wellesley

Robert Beatty

Lt. William Bush

Moultrie Kelsall

Lt. Crystal

Terence Morgan

2nd Lt. Gerard

James Kenney

Midshipman Longley

James Robertson Justice

Seaman Quist

Denis O'Dea

RAdm. Sir Rodney Leighton

Richard Hearne

Polwheal (Hornblower's Batman)

Michael Dolan

Surgeon Gundarson

Details

Director

Raoul Walsh

Screenplay

Ivan Goff

Tagline

"The sun never sets on his world of adventure."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures

Reviews

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John Chard

September 25, 2014

★ 6/10

Beat To Quarters! It's fun, it's exciting, and it looks fabulous at times, it is however far from being a great movie. In the absence of Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck steps in to Hornblower's shoes and as much as he gives it his all (rumoured to have been one of his favourite performances), it's a spot of miscasting that thankfully doesn't kill the picture dead, he's just sadly a tad too straight l...

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CinemaSerf

June 1, 2024

★ 7/10

This is effectively three short stories bolted together as Raoul Walsh creates quite an exciting and enjoyable seafaring story based around the Napoleonic Wars. Gregory Peck takes the lead role as the eponymous, rather stiff-necked, Royal Navy captain carrying out a mission to provision a rather unreliable ally with arms and munitions. When events in a Europe being terrorised by Napoleon take a se...