“The sun never sets on his world of adventure.”
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
Raoul Walsh
Raoul Walsh
Gerry Mitchell
Æneas MacKenzie
Ivan Goff
Ben Roberts
Guy Green
Robert Farnon
Gregory Peck
Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N
Virginia Mayo
Lady Barbara Wellesley
Robert Beatty
Lt. William Bush
Moultrie Kelsall
Lt. Crystal
Terence Morgan
2nd Lt. Gerard
James Kenney
Midshipman Longley
James Robertson Justice
Seaman Quist
Denis O'Dea
RAdm. Sir Rodney Leighton
Richard Hearne
Polwheal (Hornblower's Batman)
Michael Dolan
Surgeon Gundarson
Stanley Baker
Mr. Harrison (Bosun)
Alan Tilvern
Hernandez
... and 40 more
John Chard
Beat To Quarters! It's fun, it's exciting, and it looks fabulous at times, it is however far from being a great movie. In the absence of Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck steps in to Hornblower's shoes and as much as he gives it his all (rumoured to have been one of his favourite performances), it's a sp...
CinemaSerf
This is effectively three short stories bolted together as Raoul Walsh creates quite an exciting and enjoyable seafaring story based around the Napoleonic Wars. Gregory Peck takes the lead role as the eponymous, rather stiff-necked, Royal Navy captain carrying out a mission to provision a rather unr...
Dismantling the French Garrison
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HMS Lydia Battles The Natividad
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Theatrical Trailer
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