Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Age rating
- 12
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
The bill
Ioan Gruffudd
Horatio Hornblower
Robert Lindsay
Sir Edward Pellew
Antony Sher
Colonel Moncoutant
John Shrapnel
General Charette
- Samuel West — Major Edrington
- Peter Vaughan — Admiral Lord Hood
- Jean Badin — Faure
- Jamie Bamber — Archie Kennedy
- Paul Copley — Mathews
- Jonathan Coy — Lieutenant Bracegirdle
- Sean Gilder — Styles
- Estelle Skornik — Mariette
- Colin MacLachlan — Master Bowles
- Simon Sherlock — Oldroyd
- Ian Lindsay — Collins
- Directed
- Andrew Grieve
- Written
- Chris Ould
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 52 ratings
- Studio
- Meridian Broadcasting
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1998Hornblower: The Even Chance
Where it starts.
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
1998
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
1999 · You’re here
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
