Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

Captain Horatio Hornblower released in the United Kingdom as Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N., R.N. standing for Royal Navy is a 1951 American naval adventure film. It was directed by Raoul Walsh and stars Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, and Terence Morgan.

In 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, British Royal Navy Captain Horatio Hornblower Gregory Peck commands the 38gun frigate HMS Lydia on a lengthy secret mission to Central America. He is to provide arms and support to a megalomaniac named Don Julian Alvarado, who is calling himself El Supremo or The Almighty Alec Mango, in his rebellion against Spain, an ally of Britains enemy France. As Hornblower observes to First Lieutenant Bush Robert Beatty, War breeds strange allies.Upon his arrival, Hornblower is told that a larger, much more powerful Spanish warship, the 60gun Natividad, has been sighted. When it anchors nearby, Hornblower and his crew board and capture it in a surprise nighttime attack. He then reluctantly hands the ship over to Alvarado to appease the madman, and they go their separate ways. ........

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