Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. is a 1951 Anglo-US adventure drama war film. It features Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty, James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baker, James Kenney, Christopher Lee, and Terence Morgan. A naval adventure, based on the novels by C.S. Forester, about the heroic, 19th-century British seafarer. The story sails with his ship, the Lydia, through battles with Spain and then France won with wit rather than might.