

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters
1999-04-02 · 100 min · ★ 7.2
Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
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- Directors
- Andrew Grieve
- Production companies
- Meridian Broadcasting
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Ioan GruffuddHoratio Hornblower
Robert LindsaySir Edward Pellew
Antony SherColonel Moncoutant
John ShrapnelGeneral Charette
Samuel WestMajor Edrington
Peter VaughanAdmiral Lord Hood
Jean BadinFaure
Jamie BamberArchie Kennedy
Paul CopleyMathews
Jonathan CoyLieutenant Bracegirdle
Sean GilderStyles
Estelle SkornikMariette
Colin MacLachlanMaster Bowles
Simon SherlockOldroyd
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