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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.
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.
The Even Chance is the first of eight Hornblower television adaptations relating the exploits of Horatio Hornblower, the protagonist in a series of novels and short stories by C.S. Forester. The Even Chance is the name given to the film in the United Kingdom , while in the United States it is known by the alternative title The Duel .
Captain Horatio Hornblower, starring Gregory Peck – Cattle Drive, starring Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell and Chill Wills; Cause for Alarm!, starring Loretta Young and Barry Sullivan; China Corsair, starring Jon Hall; Circle of Danger, starring Ray Milland – The Clouded Yellow, starring Trevor Howard and Jean Simmons – (GB)
In June 1808, Captain Horatio Hornblower is in command of the 36-gun frigate HMS Lydia, with secret orders to sail to the Pacific coast of Nicaragua (near modern Choluteca, Choluteca) and supply a prominent landowner, Don Julian Alvarado ("descendant" of Pedro de Alvarado by a fictional marriage to a daughter of Moctezuma), with muskets and powder for a planned uprising against the Spanish ...
Horatio Hornblower, a fictional officer of the British Royal Navy created by C. S. Forester; Hornblower, a series of television programmes based on Forester's novels. Captain Horatio Hornblower, a 1951 movie starring Gregory Peck & Virginia Mayo. Hornblower, the pre-Crisis superhero name of Mal Duncan, a DC Comics character
2. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). Grant names this Frank Capra-directed surreal comedy as one of her favorites.Based on the long-running play (and a bit of a precursor to The Munsters and The Addams ...
In a six months flashback, Hornblower is third lieutenant aboard HMS Renown, under the command of the famous Captain James Sawyer, a hero from the Battle of the Nile and one of Admiral Nelson's band of brothers. The other officers are First Lieutenant Buckland, the newly arrived Second Lieutenant William Bush, and Fourth Lieutenant Archie Kennedy.