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Hornblower Loyalty & Hornblower Duty

Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Paul McGann Rated M Score 5/6 Hornblower is given a dangerous mission to deliver an emigre French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Paul McGann Rated M Score 5/6…

Hornblower: Mutiny & Hornblower: Retribution

Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, David Warner Rated M Score Hornblower: Mutiny 5/6 & Hornblower: Retribution 5.5/6 Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but obviously mentally unstable captain and eventually must mutiny. In Hornblower Retribution Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica…

Hornblower: The Frogs and The Lobsters

Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Antony Sher Score M Rated 5.5/6 Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France. The Frogs and the Lobsters is the last of the movies that had its name changed for the US market where it is known as…

Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant

Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Denis Lawson Rated PG Score 4/6 While Lt. Hornblower studies for his promotion examination, he is distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew. For those of you keeping track The Examination for Lieutenant is another one of the movies in the series to have…

Hornblower The Even Chance

Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Dorian Healy Rated PG Score 4/6 Horatio Hornblower begins his naval career, but a deadly feud with a despicable mate is causing complications. The eight films cover the events of just three of the ten novels by C. S. Forester Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower, and Hornblower…

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N

Director Raoul Walsh Starring Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty Rated 5/6 Score G During the Napoleonic wars, a British Navy Captain has adventures in Central American waters. The film is based on three of C. S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower novels: The Happy Return (Beat to Quarters in the United States), A Ship of the…