Horatio Hornblower - The Adventure Continues

Horatio Hornblower - The Adventure Continues HORATIO HORNBLOWER:ADVENTURE CONTINUE - DVD Movie, Brand A and E Home VideoIoan Gruffudd (Titanic) returns to action as C.S. Forester's swashbuckling naval hero Horation Hornblower in these two brand-new lavishly produced films which continue 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
Let me just say, my "to read" list is very long and Forester's Hornblower series is on there somewhere, quietly inching its way up. So, this review will be based solely on the merits of the movies. Having seen the whole series, I may be inclined to say that *Retribution* is my favorite. And this is not because the plot is the best--in fact, the first set of movies were perhaps better in this regard. But there was a strength in...