Director
Andrew Grieve
Actors
Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Antony Sher, John Shrapnel, Samuel West, Peter Vaughan, Jean Badin, Jamie Bamber, Paul Copley, Jonathan Coy, Sean Gilder
Runtime
1 h 40 min
Release Date
2 April 1999
Genres
Action, Adventure, Drama
Overview
The Hornblower series is based on C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventures - the story of one young man's struggle to become a leader of men. Set against the back drop of the 18th century Anglo-French wars, the bloodiest time in British naval history.Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

Volume IV: The Wrong War or The Frogs and the Lobster

After winning his freedom from prison and rejoining the fleet, Horatio Hornblower learns that he has been promoted to lieutenant.  But news of his next mission is not as welcome, for the Indefatigable will be transporting a small force of French Royalists on a desperate plot to invade Brittany.