Captain Horatio Hornblower

Year released: 1951

Also known as...

Cast:

Gregory Peck - Captain Horatio Hornblower

Virginia Mayo - Lady Barbara Wellesley

Robert Beatty - Lt. William Bush

Moultrie Kelsall - Lt. Crystal

Terence Morgan - 2nd Lt. Gerard

James Kenney - Midshipman Longley

James R. Justice - Seaman Quist

Denis O'Dea - RAdm. Sir Rodney Leighton

Richard Hearne - Polwheal

Michael Dolan - Surgeon Gundarson

Stanley Baker - Mr. Harrison (bosun)

Alan Tilvern - Hernandez

Alec Mango - El Supremo (Don Julian Alvarado)

Christopher Lee - Spanish captain

John Witty - Entenza

Michael Goodliffe - Col. Caillard

Eugene Deckers - French commandant

Ingeborg Wells - Hebe

Amy Veness - Mrs. McPhee

Kynaston Reeves - Adm. Lord Hood

Ronald Adam - Adm. McCartney

Basil Bartlett - Capt. Elliott (uncredited)

Robert Cawdron - French mate on Witch of Endor (uncredited)

Diane Cilento - Voice of Maria Hornblower (uncredited)

Howard Connell - Seaman on Lydia (uncredited)

Patric Doonan - Seaman (uncredited)

Richard Johnson - Macrae (uncredited)

Sam Kydd - Seaman Garvin (uncredited)

Stuart Pearless - Seaman on Lydia (uncredited)

Raymond Sherry - Seaman on Lydia (uncredited)

Jack Stewart - Seaman (uncredited)

Russell Waters - Seaman (uncredited)

Jack Watson - Capt. Sylvester (uncredited)

Byron Webster - Seaman (uncredited)

Patrick Young - Lt. Radot (uncredited)

Crew:

Director: Raoul Walsh

Based on the novel and adaptation by: C.S. Forester

Screenplay by: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts, Aeneas MacKenzie

Producers: Gerry Mitchell, Raoul Walsh

Original Music by: Robert Farnon

Director of Photography: Guy Green

Film Editor: Jack Harris

Art Director: Tom Morahan

Costume Designers: Sheila Graham, Tom Morahan

Makeup Artist: Tony Sforzini

Associate Art Director: Ken Adam (uncredited)

Sound: Harold King

Special Effects: Harry Barndollar, George Blackwell, Arthur S. Rhoades, Cliff Richardson

Matte Artist: Peter Ellenshaw (uncredited)

Stunts: Jack Cooper (uncredited), Joe Powell (uncredited)

Color Consultant: Technicolor: Joan Bridge

Technical Advisor: Commander L.T. Clark

Musical Director: Louis Levy

Captain Horatio Hornblower Trivia

• According to a website on the sculptor Henry Fehr and his son, A. H. Fehr, Gregory Peck's legs were so thin that he had to have his trousers padded for the filming!

• Virginia Mayo was not the studio's first choice for the character of Lady Barbara.  The first actress who was chosen was Margaret Leighton but she was cast aside after Warner Bros. chief, Jack Warner, saw her screen test and declared, "She's no good, we need a leading lady with big boobs so cast Mayo!'" (~From a letter to Paul Welsh from Virginia Mayo.)