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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, 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
August 24, 1951: Jim Thorpe – All-American: September 13, 1951: Captain Horatio Hornblower: September 18, 1951: A Streetcar Named Desire: Nominee of the Academy Award for Best Picture Nominee of the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama Inducted into the National Film Registry in 1999 September 22, 1951: Tomorrow Is Another Day ...
Alec Mango (16 March 1911 – 7 November 1989) was an English actor. [1] [2] Best known for portraying El Supremo in the 1951 Captain Horatio Hornblower, he also appeared in South of Algiers (1953), The Strange World of Planet X (1958), The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), Danger Man (1961), and Frankenstein Created Woman (1967). [3]
The World in His Arms is a 1952 American seafaring adventure film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth and Anthony Quinn, with John McIntire, Carl Esmond, Andrea King, Eugenie Leontovich, Hans Conried, and Sig Ruman.
A Ship of the Line is an historical seafaring novel by C. S. Forester.It follows his fictional hero Horatio Hornblower during his tour as captain of a ship of the line.By internal chronology, A Ship of the Line, which follows The Happy Return, is the seventh book in the series (counting the unfinished Hornblower and the Crisis).
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 .
The Gorbals Story (1950) - Peter Reilly; Morning Departure (1950) - Leading Seaman Kelly; Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) - Seaman (uncredited) The Dark Light (1951) - Matt