The complete collection of Horatio Hornblower's (Ioan Gruffudd) hi-jinks on the high seas!
An absolutely superb box set of this wonderful series!
Okay, I adore this series, and it would be very easy for me to simply repeat over and over again that I think it's great but I shall attempt to give a more useful review.
Firstly, I've the packaging, I'm a film student and own far too many DVDs, and they're slowly taking over my house, so to have this in a four disk set it superb because it takes up so much less space on my shelf.
But the content, as I've already said, I love this series, they're proper swashbuckling adventures and have the advantage of containing some of my favourite actors.
Starting, of course, with Ioan Gruffudd as Hornblower, if you have ever read the books then you will know that physically Gruffudd is perfect as Horation Hornblower, especially in the first couple as a scrawny teenager, but he manages to make the character much more likeable than his literary counterpart who I always found to be distinctly unloveable. Jamie Bamber is remarkable sweet as Archie Kennedy, a character who was given the opportunity to return later simply because he was so popular, and Paul McGann is superb as William Bush. I once head McGann described as the only man who can look sexy while shouting, whether you agree with that or not, he does shout rather well and is terrific as the slightly uptight Lieutenant. And of course, mention must be made of Robert Lindsey as Pellow, his is a yell that you can imagine truly carrying across the busy ship and his fatherly fondness of Horatio is touching.
Against, I cannot recommend this enough, if I could afford to I would buy it for all of my friends and force them to all sit and watch it!
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