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Horatio Hornblower - The Adventure Continues
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767034425
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0767034422
Label: A&E Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
MPN: 70199
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 15, 2001
Running Time: 200 minutes
Studio: A&E Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Editorial Review:
Move over, Mr. Darcy, A&E has a new heartthrob. He's third lieutenant Horatio Hornblower (Ioan Gruffudd reprising his star-making role), C.S. Forester's swashbuckling hero of the high seas. Devotees of the original Emmy Award-winning miniseries will want to "have at" this boxed set containing two feature-length episodes in which the dashing Hornblower and crew engage in "foolhardy actions, rash judgments, and irresponsible adventures." "Mutiny" finds our young hero awaiting trial for "black bloody mutiny" against a once distinguished, but increasingly unhinged Captain Sawyer (David Warner). "It was for the good of the service," Hornblower insists to his mentor, Sir Edward Pellew (Robert Lindsay). "We were headed for disaster." Hornblower relates the events that led him to a Kingston, Jamaica, prison cell. In "Retribution," Hornblower's trial unfolds, and the events surrounding the mutiny are further revealed: Captain Sawyer is detained in a straitjacket, disgruntled crew members desert, dithering acting captain Butland assumes command, and Hornblower leads a surprise attack on a Spanish fort. Meanwhile, the judges look for a scapegoat "to take away the smell." Maritime buffs will have a merry time, with all the shipboard intrigue and skirmishes. Like the "hot shot" that disables an escaping enemy vessel, this boxed set will be "a palpable hit." --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Leadership and loyalty put to the test.
The Horatio Hornblower adventure continues indeed in this two DVD package that tells the long but fascinting story of Lt. Hornblower's struggles serving under Captain Sawyer, a once great hero who is now gradually losing his mind and has paranoid delusions. Thus the episode "Mutiny" and the episode "Retribution" tell one continuous story.
Captain Sawyer's dementia is soon spotted by all four of his leutenants. HOwever the first senior leutenant is an incompetent, indecisive, timid, ... Read More
Rating: - Couldn't stop watching!
We couldn't stop watching this continuation of Hornblower's adventures! It's every bit as good as the original series. Now that we own the DVD we can watch it again! If you saw the first series, you have to get this one!
Rating:  - Dissapointed
A longtime Hornblower fan, I could not wait for the "Adventure Continues." But when I saw it I could not wait for the adventure to finish! This series is dull and lackluster by comparison to the first four episodes (The Duel, The Fireships, The Duchess and the Devil, The Wrong War.) "The Adventure Continues" dissapointed me so that I did not even bother to see the complete "The New Adventures" series. I will have to give "The New Adventures" another try.
Rating: - Hornblower was not a defiant jerk....
As a Hornblower fan for many decades, I am very disappointed in this movie. Ioan Gruffud portrays a Hornblower who is almost a modern high school delinquent - the kind who walks in front of your car when you drive near a public HS to show he is "cool" or a "big man". Whereas this may appeal to someone who sports a "Question Authority" sticker, it is not the Hornblower I know. Overall, it seems that the movies did not do too well with one of the greatest heroes of fiction - but at least Gregory Peck's ... Read More
Rating: - I'm a fan but I'm also sorry.......................
Soy una fanatica de la serie de HH, este capitulo del Motin me encantó, el problema es realmente serio para un joven marino como HH pero, como siempre sabe salir del problema con altura. Se me hizo muy dificil entender con máxima claridad todo lo que ocurre, mi inglés es bueno, pero no tanto. Porque no los subtitulan aunque sea en inglés? No es posible hacerlo? Tambien compre Loyalty and Duty, pero aun no los he visto. Tendré el mismo problema. Una pena.
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