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Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999) (TV)
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25 April 1999 (USA)
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Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France. full summary | add synopsis
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Invasion
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Guillotine
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Bridge
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Schoolteacher
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Navy
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Won Primetime Emmy.
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2 nominations
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Fascinating detail brings the 18th century to life - you won't be able to look away.
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Cast
(Credited cast) | Ioan Gruffudd | ... | Horatio Hornblower |
 | Robert Lindsay | ... | Capt. Sir Edward Pellew |
| Antony Sher | ... | Colonel Moncoutant |
| John Shrapnel | ... | General Charette |
 | Samuel West | ... | Major Edrington |
| Peter Vaughan | ... | Admiral Lord Hood |
| Jean Badin | ... | Fauré |
 | Jamie Bamber | ... | Acting Lt. Archie Kennedy |
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| Paul Copley | ... | Matthews |
| Jonathan Coy | ... | Lt. Bracegirdle |
 | Sean Gilder | ... | Styles |
| Ian Lindsay | ... | Collins |
| Colin MacLachlan | ... | Master Bowles |
| Simon Sherlock | ... | Oldroyd |
| Estelle Skornik | ... | Mariette |
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Horatio Hornblower: The Wrong War (USA)
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Brazil:100 min
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Anachronisms: The story is based on the Quiberion Expedition of 1795, albeit loosely. Captain Sir Edward Pellew quotes "As idle as a painted ship/Upon a painted ocean" from S T Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. This poem was not published until 1798 (in Lyrical Ballards).
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Quotes:
Major Edrington:
[Watching as Hornblower struggles to mount a horse] Now I see why you chose the Navy.
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Followed by Hornblower: Retribution (2001) (TV)
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The Girl I Left Behind Me
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The "Horatio Hornblower" series has been a wonderful surprise. It is beautifully filmed, with enough period detail to make it seem real, while things are carefully explained to us so that it is not too obscure. We learn along with the new young officer Horatio. By the time of this, the fourth movie, he has developed confidence and values of his own, and they are sorely tested as he, a sailor, ends up in a French village contested by the Republicans and the Royalists. The performances are wonderful. I hope that there are more "Horatio's" in the works.