Captain Horatio Hornblower
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| Directed by | Raoul Walsh |
| Produced by | Gerry Mitchell |
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C.S. Forester (novel and adaptation) Ivan Goff Ben Roberts Aeneas MacKenzie |
| Starring |
Gregory Peck Virginia Mayo Robert Beatty Terence Morgan James Robertson Justice |
| Music by | Robert Farnon |
| Cinematography | Guy Green |
| Edited by | Jack Harris |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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117 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2.75 million (US rentals) |
Captain Horatio Hornblower (a.k.a. Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. in the UK, "R.N." standing for "Royal Navy") is a 1951 American naval swashbuckling adventure film 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 (Beat to Quarters in the United States), A Ship of the Line, and Flying Colours. Forester is credited with the screen adaptation; as a result, the film is faithful to his novels and features an occasionally introspective tone unusual for an old-fashioned swashbuckler.
In 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, British Royal Navy Captain Horatio Hornblower (Gregory Peck) commands the 38-gun frigate HMS Lydia on a lengthy secret mission to Central America. He is to provide arms and support to a megalomaniac named Don Julian Alvarado, who is calling himself "" ("The Almighty") (Alec Mango), in his rebellion against Spain, an ally of Britain's enemy France. As Hornblower observes to First Lieutenant Bush (Robert Beatty), "War breeds strange allies".
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