This capital entry in A&E's Horatio Hornblower series recaptures the excitement of the original mini-series, which won an Emmy in 1999. The time is the early 1800s: Horatio Hornblower (Ioan Gruffud) receives his commission to serve under Captain Sawyer (David Warner) on the ship Renown, a mariner's dream come true. But war hero Sawyer suffers paranoid delusions that are scarcely masked by the laudanum administered to him by Dr. Clive (David Rintoul), his ship's physician of fifteen years. Horatio's doubts about Sawyer's fitness for service escalate after the Captain countermands Horatio's order to cut sail, and flogs an innocent young sailor named Welland (Terence Co...
Released:
2001
Rated:
NR
Length:
100 mins