Oct 07, 1998
100 min
Full-HD

Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998)

Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a feud with a shipmate causes complications.

Category

War Adventure TV Movie

Country

United Kingdom

Companies

Meridian Broadcasting

Ioan Gruffudd

Midshipman Horatio Hornblower

Robert Lindsay

Captain Sir Edward Pellew

Dorian Healy

Midshipman Jack Simpson

Michael Byrne

Captain Keene

Robert Bathurst

Lieutenant Eccleston

Duncan Bell

Midshipman Clayton

Paul Copley

Matthews

Sean Gilder

Styles

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