Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
Apr 02 1999
•2h 40m
•War, Adventure, TV Movie
Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
Cast
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Ioan Gruffudd
Horatio Hornblower
Robert Lindsay
Sir Edward Pellew
Antony Sher
Colonel Moncoutant
John Shrapnel
General Charette
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