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Re: Hornblower movies
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2006 May 8, 10:34 -0500
The A&E movies were called "Young Hornblower," about Hornblower's life
as a junior lieutenant. They were quite good. The only other
Hornblower movie ever made was an adaptation of the very first
Hornblower novel in which Hornblower was a full captain on a challenging
mission off the coast of South America. This was the novel that
launched CS Forester to success as the Patrick O'Brian of the 1950s
(Forester then penned additional Hornblower works taking him all the way
from lieutenant to admiral). The latter movie starred Gregory Peck and
Virginia Mayo. I haven't seen it in years, but as I recollect it's a
pretty good adaptation of the novel judged by 1950s Hollywood standards
(eg, the shipboard life scenes were good, but nowhere near as good as
those in Master and Commander).
Side note: I fell in love with Hornblower in high school. Drove my
English teacher absolutely nuts -- every time we had to read a novel and
write a book report I chose one of the Hornblower novels. He finally
asked if I ever read anything "important." I looked at him sweetly and
said "no."
Lu Abel
FrankReedCT@aol.com wrote:
> Alex, you wrote:
> "You mean there is a movie?
> I just read the book (under the influence of some recent
> Nav-l discussions) and I liked it very much.
> Our library also has "Hornblower Companion", with all maps
> and technical commentaries to all Hornblower's travels and battles.
> Very exciting:-) I regrett I missed this in my youth,
> but in my youth I could only read those books which have been translated
> into Russian, and Hornblower was not."
>
> There is a series of tv movies made by A&E a few years ago which were very
> popular and favorably reviewed. There was also a feature film made in 1951.
> I've never seen any of them. For a list, details, reviews, etc. follow this
> link: http://us.imdb.com/find?q=hornblower
>
> -FER
> 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
> www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
>
>
> >
>
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From: Lu Abel
Date: 2006 May 8, 10:34 -0500
The A&E movies were called "Young Hornblower," about Hornblower's life
as a junior lieutenant. They were quite good. The only other
Hornblower movie ever made was an adaptation of the very first
Hornblower novel in which Hornblower was a full captain on a challenging
mission off the coast of South America. This was the novel that
launched CS Forester to success as the Patrick O'Brian of the 1950s
(Forester then penned additional Hornblower works taking him all the way
from lieutenant to admiral). The latter movie starred Gregory Peck and
Virginia Mayo. I haven't seen it in years, but as I recollect it's a
pretty good adaptation of the novel judged by 1950s Hollywood standards
(eg, the shipboard life scenes were good, but nowhere near as good as
those in Master and Commander).
Side note: I fell in love with Hornblower in high school. Drove my
English teacher absolutely nuts -- every time we had to read a novel and
write a book report I chose one of the Hornblower novels. He finally
asked if I ever read anything "important." I looked at him sweetly and
said "no."
Lu Abel
FrankReedCT@aol.com wrote:
> Alex, you wrote:
> "You mean there is a movie?
> I just read the book (under the influence of some recent
> Nav-l discussions) and I liked it very much.
> Our library also has "Hornblower Companion", with all maps
> and technical commentaries to all Hornblower's travels and battles.
> Very exciting:-) I regrett I missed this in my youth,
> but in my youth I could only read those books which have been translated
> into Russian, and Hornblower was not."
>
> There is a series of tv movies made by A&E a few years ago which were very
> popular and favorably reviewed. There was also a feature film made in 1951.
> I've never seen any of them. For a list, details, reviews, etc. follow this
> link: http://us.imdb.com/find?q=hornblower
>
> -FER
> 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W.
> www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
>
>
> >
>
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