The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999)

Original title

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

Directed by

Andrew Grieve

Genre

war, adventure, tv movie

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

12

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 52 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young British naval officer is sent on a mission to support French royalist rebels in the Quiberon expedition. He must navigate conflicting loyalties and his own sympathy for the revolutionaries as the operation goes disastrously wrong.

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What happens

The Frogs and the Lobsters (also known as The Wrong War) is an episode of the television program Hornblower. It is set during the French Revolutionary Wars and very loosely based on the chapter of the same name in C.S. Forester's 1950 novel Mr. Midshipman Hornblower and on the actual ill-fated Quiberon expedition of 1795. The main title is based on the often derogatory term for the French used by the British (as well as other English speakers) and on the red coats of the British soldiers. The secondary title deals with Horatio's own duty to the Crown and the alliance with the French and his struggle with his own sympathy towards the French revolutionaries. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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