Movie
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
Overview
Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
Details
- Release date
- 1999-04-02
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- War, Adventure, TV Movie
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Meridian Broadcasting
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Ioan Gruffudd as Horatio Hornblower
- Robert Lindsay as Sir Edward Pellew
- Antony Sher as Colonel Moncoutant
- John Shrapnel as General Charette
- Samuel West as Major Edrington
- Peter Vaughan as Admiral Lord Hood
- Jean Badin as Faure
- Jamie Bamber as Archie Kennedy
- Paul Copley as Mathews
- Jonathan Coy as Lieutenant Bracegirdle
- Sean Gilder as Styles
- Estelle Skornik as Mariette
Crew
- Andrew Grieve - Director
- Chris Ould - Screenplay
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