

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
The sun never sets on his world of adventure.
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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- Language
- English
- battle
- napoleonic wars
- sea battle
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR21 May 1951
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU10 Apr 1951
AustriaAT
- Theatrical121 Apr 1952
BrazilBR
- Theatricale 101 Jan 1952
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1216 Nov 1951
GreeceGR
- Theatrical1212 Apr 1952
NetherlandsNL
- PhysicalALDVD23 Jan 2008
PortugalPT
- Theatricale 1012 Apr 1952
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Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. was released on 10 April 1951.
Audience reviews
2- J6/10
John Chard
9/25/2014
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 laced to really make …
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CinemaSerf
6/1/2024
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 series of more treache…
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