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Captain Horatio Hornblower (known as Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. in the UK, "R.N." standing for "Royal Navy") 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 .
- Gerry Mitchell
- Robert Farnon
- 10 April 1951
Richard Hornblower. Nationality. British. Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C. S. Forester. He later became the subject of films and radio and television programmes, and C. Northcote Parkinson elaborated a "biography" of him, The ...
- C. S. Forester
- "The Last Encounter" (1967)
- The Happy Return (1937)
A classic adventure film based on the novel by C.S. Forester, starring Gregory Peck as a British naval officer in the Napoleonic wars. Watch the trailer, see photos, read reviews and trivia, and learn about the plot and cast of this 1951 movie.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Raoul Walsh
- 1951-04-10
A list of 14 novels by C.S. Forester featuring Horatio Hornblower, a fictional British naval officer. The books are arranged in the order of the events they depict, from his early days as a midshipman to his later years as an admiral.
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YouTube Movies & TV. 181M subscribers. Subscribed. 10K. ...more. Screen legend GREGORY PECK brings to life C.S. Forester's classic nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower. In 1807, unflappable...
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A movie adaptation of C. S. Forester's novel about the 19th century naval officer who fights against Napoleon's forces. Starring Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty and James Robertson Justice.
Horatio Hornblower, fictional character, a British naval officer who is the hero of 12 books (mostly novels) by C.S. Forester that are set at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. The Hornblower novels begin with The Happy Return (1937; also published as Beat to Quarters) and conclude with the unfinished novel Hornblower and the Crisis (1967; also ...