Captain Horatio Hornblower
Captain Horatio Hornblower is a 1951 British naval swashbuckling war film in Technicolor from Warner Bros., produced by Gerry Mitchell, directed by Raoul Walsh, that stars Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty and Terence Morgan.
Plot
In 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, Royal Navy Captain Horatio Hornblower, in command of the 38-gun frigate HMS Lydia, is tasked with a secret mission to Central America: he is to provide arms and support to Don Julian Alvarado, who has organized a rebellion against the colonial authorities of Spain, an ally of Britain's enemy France. Alvarado turns out to be a megalomaniac calling himself "El Supremo" ("The Almighty"). Hornblower also learns that a much more powerful warship, the 60-gun Natividad, is en route to suppress the rebellion. When it anchors nearby, Hornblower and his crew board and capture it in a surprise night attack. He then reluctantly surrenders the ship to Alvarado, and they go their separate ways.
Cast
- Alan Tilvern
- Alec Mango
- Alexander Davion
- Amy Veness
- Christopher Lee
- Denis O'Dea
- Diane Cilento
- Eugene Deckers
- Gregory Peck
- Ingeborg von Kusserow
- Jack Watson
- James Kenney
- James Robertson Justice
- John Witty
- Kynaston Reeves
- Michael Goodliffe
- Moultrie Kelsall
- Richard Hearne
- Richard Johnson
- Robert Beatty
- Ronald Adam
- Stanley Baker
- Terence Morgan
- Virginia Mayo
More details
| author | Ben Roberts C. S. Forester Ivan Goff Æneas MacKenzie |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | England |
| director | Raoul Walsh |
| editor | Jack Harris |
| events | Napoleonic Wars sea piracy seamanship |
| genre | action adventure drama historical |
| keywords | 74-gun abandon ship blockade brig british prison campaign on the iberian peninsula capture central america dismast draft draught dutch engage first french empire flee fly france french french navy frigate grandiose delusions horatio hornblower kill lugger married mast megalomaniac nantes napoleon national hero netherlands paris peninsular war prisoner of war prisoners of war prize money royal navy scuttle secret mission seventy-four ship horn ship of the line spain survive their way wound yellow fever |
| musicBy | Robert Farnon |
| producer | Gerry Mitchell |
| productionCompany | Warner Bros. |
| publisher | Warner Bros. |
| theme | romantic drama war |