Lighthearted fare set on board an unglamorous old tub doing unglamorous duty. Meanwhile the idler Ensign Pulver, the film’s comic relief, slowly works up the gumption to push back against the skipper’s excesses. Roberts makes a pact with Morton whereby the lieutenant stops requesting a transfer and the captain permits the crew its first shore liberty in months.
His efforts at diplomacy make fascinating viewing. Roberts, tries to act as a buffer between captain and crew while seeking a transfer to combat duty on board a destroyer or cruiser. “The Bucket,” chafes at the tyranny of their skipper, Lieutenant Commander Morton. The crew of the World War II cargo ship USS Reluctant, a.k.a. The heroics are set to a stirring soundtrack made up in large part of works from composers like Luigi Boccherini and Ralph Vaughan Williams. A parable of friendship, leadership, and nautical wizardry runs in parallel with high-seas derring-do, in which Master and Commander abounds.
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The crew of Surprise, captained by “Lucky Jack” Aubrey, has to puzzle out how to overcome a faster, more heavily gunned, more stoutly built foe. The saga of a fictional British man of war, HMS Surprise, ordered to apprehend a French frigate sailing the South Atlantic on its way to raid merchant shipping in the Pacific Ocean during the Napoleonic Wars. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003). Tensions between the army and navy, among British social classes, and between the British and their French allies make up the atmosphere surrounding this riveting tale. Hornblower leads a Royal Navy contingent ashore in company with a British Army officer, Major Lord Edrington. A flotilla commanded by Hornblower’s skipper, Sir Edward Pellew of the frigate HMS Indefatigable, lands a royalist army along the French seacoast in hopes of overthrowing the little emperor and restoring the Bourbon dynasty to the throne. It tells the story of a doomed Anglo-French expedition against Napoleonic France. (Start with the very first installment, The Duel, to establish the context for the series.) Forced to choose one, though, The Wrong War is the best of the bunch.
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I begin by cheating, as A&E made a series of Hornblower films during the late 1990s and I recommend them all. Horatio Hornblower: The Wrong War (1999).
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