Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

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Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

1999

1h 40m

7.2(52 votes)

War

Adventure

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Overview

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

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16 members

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Ioan Gruffudd

Horatio Hornblower

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Robert Lindsay

Sir Edward Pellew

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Antony Sher

Colonel Moncoutant

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John Shrapnel

General Charette

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Samuel West

Major Edrington

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Peter Vaughan

Admiral Lord Hood

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Jean Badin

Faure

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Jamie Bamber

Archie Kennedy

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Paul Copley

Mathews

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Jonathan Coy

Lieutenant Bracegirdle

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Sean Gilder

Styles

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Estelle Skornik

Mariette

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Colin MacLachlan

Master Bowles

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Simon Sherlock

Oldroyd

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Ian Lindsay

Collins

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Jason Hall

Stevens

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