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Captain Horatio Hornblower 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 . The film is based on three of C. S. Forester 's Horatio Hornblower novels: The Happy Return (1937), A Ship of ...
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 True Story of Horatio Hornblower. [1]
A movie adaptation of C. S. Forester's novels about a British Navy captain's adventures in the Napoleonic wars. Starring Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty and Christopher Lee, directed by Raoul Walsh.
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- Raoul Walsh
- 1951-04-10
Screen legend GREGORY PECK brings to life C.S. Forester's classic nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower. In 1807, unflappable Capt. Hornblower of the British Nav...
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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.
Captain Horatio Hornblower is a must see. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Played loose with the storylines of a few of the books and changed hey facts.
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The Hornblower Companion (1964) is a book of anecdotes and maps that provides background on the series. C. Northcote Parkinson wrote a “biography” of this fictional hero, The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower (1970). The character was perhaps most famously played by Gregory Peck in the film Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951).
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