Hornblower Afloat
NE of the marks of a great writer is that he has the power to create characters whose vitality makes them almost independent of him. Yet in this respect a certain type of born story-teller may be equal to the masters; in the country of the mind, Sherlock Holmes is as substantial as Falstaff. In our own time, Captain Horatio Hornblower has surely earned the right to a place in this honourable company. And who better to impersonate him than Michael Redgrave, who can so well suggest both the man of action and the man of thought? This alone makes the new Hornblower series (from ZBs, Friday nights) worthwhile. Married, loaded with honours, Hornblower has five minutes of domestic bliss before the urgent message comes from the Admiralty, and we're off to force the narrows of the Kattegat, with Lady Barbara left standing misty-eyed on the quay. There are flat, heavy sounds of battle as the Danish forts open fire . . . shoals below, the leadsmen singing out ,.. a crippled ship to tow, and there goes our mizzentops’l. . . With a bit of applied ballistics, up goes the enemy’s powder-maga-zine; so it looks as if we'll stay afloat for another week, anyway.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 731, 17 July 1953, Page 10
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201Hornblower Afloat New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 731, 17 July 1953, Page 10
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