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Movies I enjoyed....."Hornblower".....about the British Navy in Sailing Ships!
Jul 8, 2018 16:54:59   #
silverhawk Loc: Born a West Virginian, Living in Virginia
 
Movies I enjoyed.....Hornblower" ...British Navy Sailing Ships

Hornblower S01 E01 The Even Chance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njHimjJ57OQ
Hornblower S01 E02 The Examination For Lieutenant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW-0hQRH0qY
Hornblower S01 E03 The Duchess And The Devil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO8thYyJJIU
Hornblower S01 E04 The Frogs And The Lobsters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYhly8c1GME

Hornblower S02 E01 Mutiny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrfmK6mEMaI
Hornblower S02 E02 Retribution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdqqQfykR6U

Hornblower S03 E01 Loyalty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnhoGRjSOGk&t=244s
Hornblower S03 E02 Duty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5STvCVCBo

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Jul 8, 2018 17:22:56   #
Ghery Loc: Olympia, WA
 
Probably based on C.S. Lewis's series of books on Hornblower. Excellent fiction and well worth the time to read. For a WWII read, his book "The Good Shepherd" is a great read on life on a destroyer in the north Atlantic fighting the U boats. Great author.

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Jul 8, 2018 18:21:34   #
silverhawk Loc: Born a West Virginian, Living in Virginia
 
Ghery wrote:
Probably based on C.S. Lewis's series of books on Hornblower.
Excellent fiction and well worth the time to read. For a WWII read,
his book "The Good Shepherd" is a great read on life on a destroyer in the
north Atlantic fighting the U boats. Great author.


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I found this that sounds like the book you referred to..


https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/139237.The_Good_Shepherd
The Good Shepherd
by C.S. Forester

C.S. Forester's name on a novel gives promise of excellent entertainment,
but always something more--the development of character, the flow of history,
and the stress of events. THE GOOD SHEPHERD is in this genre.
A convoy is ploughing through icy, submarine-infested North Atlantic seas
during the most critical days of WW II.
In charge is Commander George Krause, an untested veteran of the U.S. navy.
He faces 48 hours of desperate peril.


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Official Website of C. S. Lewis
http://www.cslewis.com/us/

All of his Books:
http://www.cslewis.com/us/books/............................

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Jul 8, 2018 21:01:20   #
Ghery Loc: Olympia, WA
 
Forester, not Lewis. My mistake. But, your statement that his name on a book promises an excellent read is absolutely correct. Everything of his that I have read has been excellent.

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Jul 9, 2018 07:42:48   #
beerhunter13 Loc: Southern Ontario, Canada
 
The author Patrick O'Brian has a similar character, John/Jack Aubrey, also in the Napoleonic Wars, that covers 21 books. The first 3 novels formed the basis for the film Master and Commander which starred Russel Crowe. As a former Tall Ship officer, I really loved the detail that these books have. Being lengthier than the Hornblower series, the author delves into the lives of his characters and through out the novels runs a secret sub-plot that is revealed to Aubrey several books into the series and essentially directs his naval actions from that moment on.

Apart from this series, Patrick O'Brian's other books are equally enjoyable.

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Jul 9, 2018 09:47:40   #
chippy65 Loc: Cambridge
 
for a title in that genre you will not go wrong with

HMS Ullyses Spelling ? by Allistair MacClean agin spelling?

read it as a teenager............remembered for the rest of my life

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Jul 9, 2018 10:21:55   #
TJBNovember Loc: Long Island, New York
 
Another great series about the Royal Navy during the American revolution through the Napoleonic era by Douglas Reeman, under the pseudonym Alexander Kent,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bolitho_novels

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Jul 9, 2018 10:25:30   #
zaidy
 
Ghery wrote:
Forester, not Lewis. My mistake. But, your statement that his name on a book promises an excellent read is absolutely correct. Everything of his that I have read has been excellent.

Well, Cecil Scott Forester was his pen name. His real name was Cecil Lewis Troughton Smith.

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Jul 9, 2018 10:40:40   #
zaidy
 
beerhunter13 wrote:
The author Patrick O'Brian has a similar character, John/Jack Aubrey, also in the Napoleonic Wars...

Similarity derived from the fact, that both authors based their character on the same real person: British admiral Thomas Cochrane (1775-1860)

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Jul 9, 2018 11:43:53   #
Griff Loc: Warwick U.K.
 
If you have not read any of Forester's books you have a great pleasure awaiting you; but not only Hornblower. Do people remember 'The African Queen' or 'Brown on Resolution'?
I don't think he wrote a poor book.

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Jul 9, 2018 11:56:26   #
andesbill
 
When and where were these movies made? I hadn’t previously heard of them, so thank you.

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Jul 9, 2018 13:25:19   #
silverhawk Loc: Born a West Virginian, Living in Virginia
 
Griff wrote:
If you have not read any of Forester's books you
have a great pleasure awaiting you; but not only Hornblower.
Do people remember 'The African Queen' or 'Brown on Resolution'?
I don't think he wrote a poor book.




Forever England 1935 John Mills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfamPJyDpPg
Forever England is the 1935 UK re-issue of Brown on Resolution (US title - Born for Glory ),
a film adaptation of the CS Forester novel Brown on Resolution, starring John Mills.

The plot is centred on the illegitimate son of a British naval officer singlehandedly
bringing about the downfall of a German cruiser during World War I. The title role
is played by John Mills, his first lead role, and it is also notable for being the first
film to use actual Royal Navy ships.
The novel was also later adapted as Sailor of the King (also titled Single-Handed
in the US, and sometimes - though rarely - Brown on Resolution), in 1953.
The 1935 version retains the novel's original World War I setting, but in the 1953 remake,
the setting is realistically updated to the Second World War, as the Germans resumed
commerce raiding with surface warships in 1939.

Cast:
Betty Balfour - Elizabeth Brown
John Mills - Albert Brown
Barry MacKay - Lt. Somerville
Jimmy Hanley - Ginger
Howard Marion-Crawford - Max
H.G. Stoker - Captain Holt
Percy Walsh - Kapitan von Lutz
George Merritt - William Brown
Cyril Smith - William Brown, Jr.



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The African Queen - Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIgDxFgtvBs
In Africa during WW1, a gin-swilling riverboat owner/captain is persuaded
by a strait-laced missionary to use his boat to attack an enemy warship.


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