Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)

Directed by

Raoul Walsh

Genre

adventure film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 145 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A British naval captain commands a frigate during the Napoleonic wars. He leads daring sea battles and deals with personal challenges back on shore.

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What happens

Captain Horatio Hornblower is a 1951 British naval swashbuckling war film in Technicolor from Warner Bros. Pictures, produced by Gerry Mitchell, directed by Raoul Walsh, that stars Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty and Terence Morgan. The film is based on three of C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels: The Happy Return (also known as Beat to Quarters) (1937), A Ship of the Line (1938), and Flying Colours (1938). Forester is credited with the screen adaptation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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