Horatio Hornblower - The Complete Adventures
by Andrew Grieve
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Actor: Dorian Healy, Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Byrne, Robert Bathurst, Robert LindsayDirector: Andrew Grieve
Producer: Andrew Benson
Writer: C.S. Forester
Writer: Chris Ould
Writer: Mike Cullen
Writer: Patrick Harbinson
Writer: Russell Lewis
Writer: T.R. Bowen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 600 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
DVD Reviews of Horatio Hornblower - The Complete Adventures
DVD Review: This is what MOVIES should aspire to never mind a TV series
Summary: 5 Stars
What a great buy .... more than 10 hours of fabulous entertainment, a truly well acted, written, scripted and filmed mini series that you would be hard pressed not to just sit there and veg out for all six discs at once.
The fact that the used sets, even for a DVD set release in 2002 are selling used in Amazon at practically the same price as a new set certainly attests to the demand of this quality DVD set! WOW ... I do not know how big the release on this set was but once this set sells out it will most certainly become a classic and pretty pricey. No wonder this movie was an Emmy winner ....
The producers certainly spared little money on the sets, locations, script writers and trying to maintain historical accuracy. Unlike the movie 'Master & Commander .... give me a break please ....' the stories of Hornblower, written by CS Forester are historically correct and do NOT have French and British naval ships fighting in the Pacific Ocean for some dumb reason or another.... The sea battles are outstanding, the British naval officers are depicted in a very true to life manner as being the unquestioned supreme being on their ships. If I had only one comment though I was kind of surprised to see Horatio being taken out of ' the hole' in a Spanish prison, after some days in the hot hot sun, wearing a crisp clean shirt, almost shaved .... hey he didn't even have a bathroom in that pit ... what gives ... LOL
A couple of other things that really bother me for the critical 'DVD purists' in our midst. One, it only has an English soundtrack and only the first four DVD's have English subtitles. Dumb ones too cause I think they were made for the hearig impared rather than for subtitles since we get A LOT of 'bell tolls ... bird squaks .... men groan ..' The last two disks of the series don't even have that, and even though I do think I speak English the subtitles do help, in many scenes, to understand the English accents of the sailors. And whats with the last two DVD's not having ANY subtitles no matter how aggravating?
The second thing that bugged me is that this movie was only cut in Dolby 2.0 digital ... what in the world were the producers thinking with that one? This is a fabulous movie for soundtrack battles and a Dolby 2.0 .... shame on you! Seems to me that unionized sound/sound track editors and subtitle people people in the UK were too expensive .. a major shortcoming but not enough to knock a solid 5 star rating ...
Appart from those two foibles this is a technically exceptional DVD set .... you can't go wrong .....
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