Horatio Hornblower - The Adventure Continues

Ioan Gruffudd (Titanic) returns to action as C.S. Forester's swashbuckling naval hero Horatio Hornblower in this lavishly produced continuation of A&E's Emmy Award-winning series. Following his rapid rise through the ranks of the King's Navy during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, Hornblower's latest adventures chart a course for unexpected peril as he confronts deadly new adversaries -- on both land and sea. MUTINY: After being forced to deal with a brutal captain who is rapidly going insane, Hornblower is threatened with a court-martial and hanging. RETRIBUTION: With the insane captain imprisoned and an incompetent lieutenant in charge, Hornblower must lead a strike force to recapture an enemy fort.

Key details: Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No | MPAA rating: NR (Not Rated) | Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.5 x 1.25 inches; 8.8 ounces | Director: Andrew Grieve | Media Format: Box set, Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC | Run time: 3 hours and 20 minutes | Release date: April 16, 2001 | Actors: David Warner, Ioan Gruffudd, Nicholas Jones, Paul McGann, Robert Lindsay | Subtitles: : English | Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Unqualified (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)

Customer feedback: 4.6/5 average rating.

Customers say: Customers find this DVD series to be as good as the original series, with brilliant acting and great storylines.

Review snippets: The Horatio Hornblower adventure continues indeed in this two DVD package that tells the long but fascinting story of Lt. Hornblower's struggles serving under Captain Sawyer, a once great hero who is now gradually losing his mind and has paranoid / I think this is the best of the series so far. It is an excellent adaptation of the LT Hornblower book with the follow up written by Forrester (the letter of Admiral Hornblower telling the truth about what happened). The

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