Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

…Gregory Peck in the film Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951). Beginning with Horatio Hornblower: The Duel (1998), Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd played Hornblower in a series of made-for-television movies.

…of his biggest hits with Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951), a well-mounted version of the C.S. Forester novels, which starred Gregory Peck as the British naval commander who conquers all during the Napoleonic Wars. Distant Drums (1951) recycled the story structure from Objective, Burma!, transposing the struggle to 1840 during…