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The Duchess and the Devil is the third episode of the British television series Hornblower. [1] The episode first aired on 24 February 1999 on ITV. [2] The television story is loosely based on the chapter "Hornblower, the Duchess, and the Devil" in C. S. Forester's 1950 novel Mr. Midshipman Hornblower.
The eight films cover the events of just three of the ten novels (Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower, and Hornblower and the Hotspur), and various alterations and additions are made to the source material (e.g., the recurring characters of Lt. Archie Kennedy, Matthews and Styles). The Even Chance (U.S. title: The Duel) (7 October ...
Anyone who went ashore must be quarantined for three weeks before being allowed to rejoin the fleet, so Hornblower is appointed captain of Caroline, a transport schooner carrying food and cattle, which is crewed by sailors who are also under quarantine. Hornblower catches Bunting trying to escape in the ship's longboat, and briefly imprisons him.
Hornblower arrives just in time to speak with Clayton before he dies. Hornblower is transferred to the frigate HMS Indefatigable (known by her crew as Indy), under the command of Captain Pellew. Midshipmen Kennedy, Hether, and Cleveland go with him; Pellew's fury over the duel leads him to appoint Hornblower as commander of Simpson's former ...
Ioan Gruffudd (Welsh: [ˈjɔan ˈɡrɪfɪð] ⓘ; / ˈ j oʊ ɑː n ˈ ɡ r ɪ f ɪ θ /; born 6 October 1973) is a Welsh actor.He is known for his roles in film and television series in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia.
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.
Ian McNeice (born 2 October 1950) is an English film and television actor. On television, he has played government agent Harcourt in the 1985 television series Edge of Darkness, Bert Large in the comedy-drama Doc Martin, the Newsreader in historical drama Rome (2005–2007) and Winston Churchill in Doctor Who (2010–2011).
Hornblower & Marshall, a U.S. architectural firm; Hornblower and Page, a former finance firm, predecessor to Hornblower and Weeks that was founded by Henry Hornblower; Hornblower & Weeks, a former investment banking firm founded in 1888; Loeb, Rhoades, Hornblower & Co., a former Wall Street brokerage firm; The Hornblower Brothers, a British band