Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951)

Directors

Raoul Walsh

Cast

Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Terence Morgan, Moultrie Kelsall, James Kenney

The story

In 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars, Royal Navy Captain Horatio Hornblower, in command of the 38-gun frigate HMS Lydia, is tasked with a secret mission to Central America: he is to provide arms and support to Don Julian Alvarado, who has organized a rebellion against the colonial authorities of Spain, an ally of Britain's enemy France. Alvarado turns out to be a megalomaniac calling himself "El Supremo" ("The Almighty"). Hornblower also learns that a much more powerful warship, the 60-gun Natividad, is en route to suppress the rebellion.

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