Jul 30th   
Captain Horatio Hornblower*    
aka. Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
(GB 1950)
Warner Bros. 117m.

In Napoleonic times a young sea captain tussles with both factions of the Spanish fleet, nurses back to health and falls in love with the Duke of Wellington's sister, and then escapes French captivity to fight their fleet once again.
Grimly colourful and sometimes moving romantic semi-historical adventure, but also curiously lacking in tension or suspense. One misses the old Warner style with Errol Flynn and Michael Curtiz.

Written by: Ivan Goff, ben Roberts, Aeneas MacKenzie, C.S. Forester, based on his novels.
Producer: Gerry Mitchell.
Director: Raoul Walsh.
Starring: Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, Terence Morgan, James Robertson Justice, Moultrie Kelsall, Denis O'Dea, Kynaston Reeves, James Kenney, Alec Mango, Christopher Lee, Stanley Baker.
Photography: Guy Green.
Music: Robert Farnan.

Preceded by:
East Anglian Holiday*     
(GB 1954. BTF. 18m.; w: Paul Le Saux; p: Edgar Anstey; d: Michael Clarke; voices of Frank Duncan, Richard George; ph: Bob Paynter; m: Doreen Carwithen.)