Captain Horatio Hornblower
In 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, Royal Navy Captain Horatio Hornblower is given command of the 38-gun frigate HMS Lydia and tasked with a secret mission to Central America: he is to provide arms and support to a local warlord, 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 bloodthirsty megalomaniac who calls 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 over his own personal feelings of disgust towards the man, and they go their separate ways.
MPAA Rating: | NR |
Genre: | Action, Adventure, Drama, War |
Country: | United Kingdom, United States, France |
Produced By: | Raoul Walsh, Gerry Mitchell |
Directed By: | Raoul Walsh |
Written By: | Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts, C.S. Forester, Æneas MacKenzie |
Cast: | Richard Johnson, Alec Mango, Anthony Forwood, Byron Webster, Howard Connell, Gregory Peck, Denis O'Dea, Robert Cawdron, Michael Dolan, Kynaston Reeves, Ronald Adam, Howard Lang, Michael Goodliffe, John A. Tinn, Arthur Gomez, Alan Tilvern, Sam Kydd, John Witty, Alexander Davion, Amy Veness, Derek Sydney, Eugene Deckers, Richard Hearne, Jack Watson, Basil Bartlett, Christopher Lee, Robert Beatty, Stanley Baker, Jack Stewart, Virginia Mayo, Diane Cilento, Patric Doonan, Patrick Young, Julio Monterde, Russell Waters, Anthony Marlowe, Terence Morgan, Moultrie Kelsall, James Robertson Justice, James Kenney, Jim O'Brady, Ingeborg Von Kusserow, André Belhomme, Michael Mellinger |
In Theaters: | Apr 10, 1951 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 57 minutes |
Production: | Warner Bros. |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |