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Overview
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Writers:
Ivan Goff (screenplay) &
Ben Roberts (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
10 April 1951 (UK) more
Tagline:
Wherever adventure beckons, you'll find Captain Horatio Hornblower! more
Plot:
During the Napoleonic wars, a British naval captain has adventures in Central American waters. full summary | add synopsis
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Actress Virginia Mayo Dies at 84
(From WENN. 18 January 2005)
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Master and Commander more (45 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Gregory Peck | ... | Capt. Horatio Hornblower, R.N |
 | Virginia Mayo | ... | Lady Barbara Wellesley |
 | Robert Beatty | ... | Lt. William Bush |
| Moultrie Kelsall | ... | Lt. Crystal (as M. Kelsall) |
| Terence Morgan | ... | 2nd Lt. Gerard (as T. Morgan) |
| James Kenney | ... | Midshipman Longley |
| James Robertson Justice | ... | Seaman Quist (as James R. Justice) |
| Denis O'Dea | ... | RAdm. Sir Rodney Leighton |
| Richard Hearne | ... | Polwheal (Hornblower's batman) |
| Michael Dolan | ... | Surgeon Gundarson |
| Stanley Baker | ... | Mr. Harrison (bosun) |
| Alan Tilvern | ... | Hernandez |
| Alec Mango | ... | El Supremo (Don Julian Alvarado) |
 | Christopher Lee | ... | Spanish captain |
| John Witty | ... | Entenza |
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Captain Horatio Hornblower (USA)
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Runtime:
117 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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West Germany:12 (f) | Finland:K-16 | UK:U | Australia:G
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Russell Hunter screen tested for this project. more
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Continuity: In the Lydia's battle with the Natividad, the main topgallant staysail (top sail, middle mast) on the Lydia vanishes early in the battle. We can tell because the sail in front of it on the foremast is shot down. Later in the battle, the Natividad fires at the rigging, and then the main topgallant staysail is shot down. Also in the later shot the top sail on the foremast briefly reappears. Then still later, both sails reappear for a shot of the Lydia sailing, and then they disappear again as the Lydia closes in to destroy the Natividad. more
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In the year Eighteen Hundred and Seven, a small ship of the Royal Navy set sail from England for a secret destination. With five million French and Spanish soldiers poised on the Continent under Napolean, nothing could save England from invasion except her 300 ships. HMS Lydia was soon far beyond battle-charged Europe. Under the most secret of sealed orders, she sailed for southern waters, fought her way around the Horn...
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Featured in A Conversation with Gregory Peck (1999) more
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It's unfair that Raoul Walsh's name is labeled by the books as a second-level filmmaker in relation with, say, a Ford or a Hawks. He was an extraordinary crafted and prolific director, capable of incorporating standard studio material into his own personal worldview. `Captain Horatio Hornblower' is full of little moments that exceed any genre limitation. These `sparkles of Truth' may be the tracking shot along the empty room while Peck reads the letter of his deceased wife, or when Virginia Mayo kisses the youngster the way his mother used to did. So the adventure film becomes something bigger than life, just as `White Heat' used of the conventions of the gangster film to turn into metaphysics, or `Colorado Territory' departed the western into the depths of existentialism. This film is enjoyable from beginning to end, and it's a clear predecessor of Peter Weir's `Master and Commander', with which it shares a few tone, character and plot elements.