Top billed cast

1. 

   Gregory Peck

   Capt. Horatio Hornblower R.N

2. 

   Virginia Mayo

   Lady Barbara Wellesley

3. 

   Robert Beatty

   Lt. William Bush

4. 

   Moultrie Kelsall

   Lt. Crystal

5. 

   Terence Morgan

   2nd Lt. Gerard

6. 

   James Kenney

   Midshipman Longley

7. 

   James Robertson Justice

   Seaman Quist

8. 

   Denis O'Dea

   RAdm. Sir Rodney Leighton

9. 

   Richard Hearne

   Polwheal (Hornblower's Batman)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-06-01

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 unreliable ally with arms and munitions. When events in a Europe being terrorised by Napoleon take a series of more treacherous turns, he must now battle his way across the Atlantic and return to help protect his country from the French. Virginia Mayo provides the love interest and Robert Beatty and a ...read the rest

Recommendations

1. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World71%
2. Hornblower: Mutiny73%
3. Midway66%
4. The Pride and the Passion60%
5. Midway71%
6. The Guns of Navarone72%
7. Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters72%
8. U-57165%
9. Battleground67%
10. For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada68%
11. King Arthur63%
12. Against the Sun69%
13. The Sea Hawk72%
14. Britannic67%
15. The Last of the Mohicans73%
16. Kingdom of Heaven70%
17. Tora! Tora! Tora!71%
18. Legionnaire58%
19. Henry V70%
20. The Scarlet and the Black70%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• battle
• napoleonic wars
• sea battle