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Lux Radio Theatre - "Captain Horatio Hornblower" (Old Time Radio, 1952) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: During the Napoleonic Wars, Captain Horatio Hornblower takes HMS Lydia
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  Speaker 1: on a secret mission to the Caribbean, where diplomacy proves
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  Speaker 1: as demanding as the voyage itself. Gregory Peck and Virginia
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  Speaker 1: Mayo reprise their screen roles in Lux Radio Theater's adaptation
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  Speaker 1: of the 1951 Warner Brothers film drawn from the Hornblower
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  Speaker 1: novels of C.S.
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  Speaker 2: Forrester.
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  Speaker 1: Peck is Hornblower, the Royal Navy officer whose duty must
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  Speaker 1: contend with an unpredictable revolutionary ally and the arrival of
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  Speaker 1: Lady Barbara Wellesley aboard ship. From CBS, under the direction
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  Speaker 1: of William Keeley, this is Lux Radio Theatre, Episode 774,
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  Speaker 1: originally broadcast January 21st, 1952.
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  Speaker 3: And now, we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood.
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  Speaker 4: Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, bring
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  Speaker 4: you the Lux Radio Theater, starring Gregory Peck and Virginia
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  Speaker 4: Mayo in Captain Horatio Hornblower.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: William Keeley.
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  Speaker 5: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. From time immemorial, stories
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  Speaker 5: of the sea have held a fascination for everyone, particularly
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  Speaker 5: those of the great naval battles before the days of
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  Speaker 5: modern warfare. Tonight, we bring you Captain Horatio Hornblower, adapted
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  Speaker 5: from the famous tales of C.S. Forrester, and tell you
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  Speaker 5: the story of a hero in the days of Britain's
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  Speaker 5: dominance of the seas. As our stars, we present the
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  Speaker 5: handsome and talented team of Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo,
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  Speaker 5: recreating their original roles in this Warner Brothers screen adventure, which,
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  Speaker 5: by the way, can still be seen at your favorite
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  Speaker 5: neighborhood theater. And I believe there's still a rumor going
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  Speaker 5: around that a sailor has a girl in every port. Well, now,
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  Speaker 5: that's not so surprising, knowing that girls all over the
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  Speaker 5: world can purchase Lux toilet soap. Yes, you can sail
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  Speaker 5: the seven seas and find Lux girls, because women everywhere
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  Speaker 5: are devoted to Lux toilet soap for their complexion care.
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  Speaker 5: The curtain rises on Captain Horatio Hornblower, starring Gregory Peck
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  Speaker 5: in the title role and Virginia Mayo as Lady Barbara.
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  Speaker 6: ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 5: In the year 1807, a small ship of the Royal Navy,
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  Speaker 5: His Majesty's ship Lydia, set forth on the secret destination.
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  Speaker 5: With five million French and Spanish soldiers poised on the
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  Speaker 5: continent under Napoleon, nothing could save England from invasion except
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  Speaker 5: her 300 ships.
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  Speaker 7: But the Lydia was sailing far from Europe.
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  Speaker 8: We'd been at sea now for seven weary months, and
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  Speaker 8: had covered 10,000 miles. But only one man aboard knew
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  Speaker 8: our destination and what we would do when and if
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  Speaker 8: we got there. Captain Hornblower. Our stores of food and
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  Speaker 8: water were all but exhausted.
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  Speaker 9: The day came when I felt duty-bound to speak up.
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  Speaker 2: I think I know what you've come to tell me, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Bush.
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  Speaker 2: There are 39 men sick and off duty.
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  Speaker 9: Scurvy.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: And eight dead.
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  Speaker 2: Nine dead, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Bush.
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  Speaker 2: Hazlitt died a few moments ago.
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  Speaker 9: Hazlitt?
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  Speaker 8: Hazlitt?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know, sir. He was a good top man.
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  Speaker 8: Forgive me, sir, but we've got to put ashore for
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  Speaker 8: food and fresh water.
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  Speaker 2: Lydia will stay at sea until we reach our destination.
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  Speaker 9: Sir, I don't know what our mission is.
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  Speaker 8: All I know is that three more days of this
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  Speaker 8: I can't answer for the life of anyone aboard.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Bush, you may tell all hands that we'll reach
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  Speaker 2: our destination within two days.
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  Speaker 10: Captain.
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  Speaker 2: It will be identified by a fortress on a hill
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  Speaker 2: overlooking a large bay.
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  Speaker 9: I'll tell him at once.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be obliged if you'll hand me the ship's lock.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Here it is, sir. That is all, Mr. Bush. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I have sent word to the crew that our voyage
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  Speaker 2: is almost ended. I tell them this only to keep
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  Speaker 2: hope alive. I pray God my calculations are correct. It
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  Speaker 2: must come, or we shall all surely die.
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  Speaker 6: The End.
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  Speaker 8: That next day, just before dark, the miracle occurred. A
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  Speaker 8: sight that brought every man on deck, cheering like lunatics.
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  Speaker 8: Land ho!
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  Speaker 11: Off the starboard bow!
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  Speaker 9: Land ho!
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  Speaker 6: Land ho!
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  Speaker 11: Land ho!
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  Speaker 9: You were right, sir. Within two days, you said.
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  Speaker 2: Report to the helmsman, Mr. Bush. We'll bear to starboard
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  Speaker 2: and let the wind take her.
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  Speaker 8: Aye, aye, sir.
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  Speaker 12: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Gerard. Aye, aye, sir. This ship is getting slack, Mr. Gerard.
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  Speaker 2: It's taking you longer every day to clear for action.
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  Speaker 2: The hands are weak, sir.
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  Speaker 9: And?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 2: Well, restless, sir.
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  Speaker 13: Seven months without sighting men until.
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  Speaker 4: Now, sir.
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  Speaker 2: An officer who cannot control his men is not reliable. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Took you 11 minutes and 20 seconds to clear for
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  Speaker 2: action this morning. I want it done in 10.
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  Speaker 8: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Now, sir. You seem to have your mind on something else, Mr. Gerard.
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  Speaker 2: I said now. Aye, aye, sir.
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  Speaker 13: You can cut out my liver, sir, if anybody else
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  Speaker 13: in the whole bloody navy could have done it.
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  Speaker 7: Ten thousand miles and you hit it right on the nose.
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  Speaker 2: We'll know more in the morning. Meanwhile, let me remind
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  Speaker 2: you that this is still a ship of war. We'll
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  Speaker 2: drop anchor in the bay, Mr. Bush, and ride out
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  Speaker 2: the night.
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  Speaker 8: Through the mists of the following morning we saw the fortress,
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  Speaker 8: testifying to the incredible navigation of Captain Hornblur.
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  Speaker 9: We'd been sighted from the shore.
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  Speaker 8: A dozen men in a longboat were rowing.
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  Speaker 9: Out to us.
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  Speaker 2: The ship cleared for action, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Bush?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 9: Ten minutes and three seconds.
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  Speaker 2: My compliments to Mr. Gerard.
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  Speaker 9: That boat, sir?
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  Speaker 2: They are His Majesty's allies, Mr. Bush.
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  Speaker 9: Allies, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Don Julian Alvarado, a prince of this country... has been
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  Speaker 2: persuaded to revolt against Spain.
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  Speaker 9: Then our cargo of arms is for him?
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  Speaker 2: If Don Julian can conquer Central America... and his chances
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  Speaker 2: look promising... Spain will have to take ships and men
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  Speaker 2: from Napoleon to preserve these colonies. Prepare to take our
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  Speaker 2: collars aboard, Mr. Bush.
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  Speaker 9: Twenty minutes later, they stood on our deck.
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  Speaker 8: Dark, ugly men with a great show of arrogance.
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  Speaker 14: I'm Don Jose Hernandez, Admiral in the service of El Supremo.
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  Speaker 7: You're Captain Arblo?
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  Speaker 12: I am.
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  Speaker 2: You said El Supremo, senor. That means the Almighty.
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  Speaker 14: El Supremo was formerly known to men as Don Julian Alvarado.
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  Speaker 2: And where is this Supremo?
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  Speaker 7: In his fortress. You will come with me now.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be ready in a moment, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Bush. Sir.
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  Speaker 2: Here are the keys to my dispatch box. The box
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  Speaker 2: contains the Admiralty's instructions. If I am not back by midnight,
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  Speaker 2: you will assume command.
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  Speaker 9: Not back, sir.
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  Speaker 8: But you said they were our friends.
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  Speaker 2: You have your orders, Mr. Bush. The English Captain, El Supremo.
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  Speaker 7: Sir, you are Hornblower.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Senor. King George of England charges me with messages
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  Speaker 2: of his friendship.
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  Speaker 14: I am not interested in the words of a mere king.
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  Speaker 14: Have you brought me the guns and powder for my
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  Speaker 14: conquest of the Americas?
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  Speaker 2: A thousand muskets, a million rounds of ammunition and cannon
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  Speaker 2: for your fort, senor.
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  Speaker 14: Human beings do not address me as senor. Make arrangements
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  Speaker 14: with Admiral Hernandez for landing your cargo.
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  Speaker 2: I will hand over nothing until my ship is reprovisioned.
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  Speaker 2: I have given you an order.
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  Speaker 14: Outside this fort you saw the bodies of 50 men
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  Speaker 14: hanging by their feet. They too disobeyed me.
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  Speaker 2: If I am not back aboard my ship within one hour,
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  Speaker 2: she will train her guns on this fort and reduce
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  Speaker 2: it to rubble. With you here?
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  Speaker 7: No, I think not.
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  Speaker 2: That is my order.
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  Speaker 7: Such earthly matters are beneath me. We are allies.
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  Speaker 2: What are your needs? I have a written list of
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  Speaker 2: everything I want, but not one musket until our needs
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  Speaker 2: have been filled.
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  Speaker 7: Take it, Hernandez.
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  Speaker 2: Start now.
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  Speaker 14: When you have landed my weapons, I will move first
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  Speaker 14: to San Salvador and burn it. Perhaps you will accompany us.
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  Speaker 2: No, my orders are to blockade Panama.
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  Speaker 7: It is your loss. A burning city is a magnificent sight.
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  Speaker 9: El Supremo! El Supremo!
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  Speaker 2: You dare to enter without knocking?
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  Speaker 9: The body of.
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  Speaker 2: Supremo is most important.
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  Speaker 15: Another ship has been sighted from the south, Supremo.
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  Speaker 7: The Natividad. You are in luck, Capitan. A visitor from Panama.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, an ally?
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  Speaker 14: I hardly think so. Three months ago, the Spanish viceroy
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  Speaker 14: sent a diplomat. He warned me to curb my political ambitions.
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  Speaker 14: In answer, I sent part of him back to Panama.
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  Speaker 7: His head, to be precise.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, then the Spanish already know of your plan.
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  Speaker 14: This visitor comes to destroy us. She's a ship of
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  Speaker 14: 60 guns.
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  Speaker 2: When does she arrive? Lopez. He's still a great distance away.
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  Speaker 7: Not before dawn, Supreme.
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  Speaker 2: I must take measures to prepare my ship. See that
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  Speaker 2: my provisions are sent out immediately.
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  Speaker 14: After which you will capture the Natividad and turn it
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  Speaker 14: over to me.
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  Speaker 2: You make it sound very simple, Senor. Any ship I
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  Speaker 2: capture belongs to my king.
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  Speaker 14: Your king does not wish to offend me.
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  Speaker 7: You were told to aid me.
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  Speaker 14: In my conquest of the Americas.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot surrender a British prize without authority from the Admiralty.
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  Speaker 7: With two ships, we could crush all of Central America.
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  Speaker 7: Take the Englishman back to his ship. Consider carefully, Captain Hornblower,
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  Speaker 7: my friend, my ally.
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  Speaker 8: But a ship of 60 guns?
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  Speaker 9: She finds us here at Hankins.
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  Speaker 2: We're in the lee of a great point of land, Mr.
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  Speaker 16: Bush.
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  Speaker 2: Now, here in this bay will not be sighted. Send
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  Speaker 2: your best lookout ashore. Station him at the top of
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  Speaker 2: the hill. He can keep us informed of the Spaniards' whereabouts. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: we'll take on provisions and discharge our cargo.
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  Speaker 7: If those are your orders.
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  Speaker 2: I have very little choice, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Bush.
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  Speaker 2: We are without food, and our rear is a Spanish
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  Speaker 2: man of war. Before us is a fortress with a
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  Speaker 2: hundred cannon, commanded by a madman. We'll remain where we
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  Speaker 2: are and take our chances.
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  Speaker 8: With the coming of darkness, our lookout signaled his last
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  Speaker 8: message from the shore. The Natividad had dropped anchor. She'd
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  Speaker 8: risk no battle with the fortress, not at night and
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  Speaker 8: in strange waters. A moment later, the officers of the
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  Speaker 8: Lydia were summoned to Captain Hornblow's cabin.
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  Speaker 2: Come in, gentlemen, come in. Ah, we'll have supper and
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  Speaker 2: then a game of whist, eh? Supper, sir? Yes, beef, Mr. Gerard.
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  Speaker 2: Compliments of El Supremo.
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  Speaker 9: Did you say whist, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm prepared to lose, gentlemen. I've already won a
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  Speaker 2: bigger gamble. The Natividad has decided to drop anchor. It
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  Speaker 2: was my one hope.
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  Speaker 8: You mean we're leaving, sir?
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  Speaker 17: Slipping out in the dark?
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  Speaker 2: I mean that we now have a chance to capture
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  Speaker 2: the Natividad without a battle, without firing a cannon. The
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  Speaker 2: Spaniard has no knowledge of our presence here. Now, shortly
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  Speaker 2: after midnight, when the tide's in our favor, we'll lower
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  Speaker 2: our boats and attempt to take her by surprise. Now, Mr. Palweel.
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  Speaker 15: Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 2: While their mouths are still gaping, suppose we feed them
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  Speaker 2: some dinner.
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  Speaker 8: By midnight, he was in a far more sober mood.
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  Speaker 8: Again and again, we rehearsed every step of the surprise attack.
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  Speaker 8: And then, with oars muffled, we rode through the darkness.
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  Speaker 9: The fight was brief. In a matter of minutes, the
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  Speaker 9: natividad was ours.
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  Speaker 8: All hands accounted for, sir. Six wounded, none dead.
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  Speaker 2: Very good, Mr.
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  Speaker 15: Bush.
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  Speaker 2: Tell Mr. Longley to take the wounded back to the Lydia.
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  Speaker 8: Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 2: You are captain of this ship, senor?
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  Speaker 8: I am.
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  Speaker 2: You may retain your sword.
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  Speaker 4: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Gerard, you will remove this gentleman and his officers to
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  Speaker 2: the Lydia and put them in iron. But we have surrendered, senor.
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  Speaker 2: There are articles of war. Tomorrow morning, Don Julian Alvarado
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  Speaker 2: will be coming aboard this ship. If he so much
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  Speaker 2: as sees an officer, he'll have you all killed. Those
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  Speaker 2: are his articles of war. Stand by, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Bush.
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  Speaker 2: I want a look at this ship. She's a beauty, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Worth at least 120,000 guineas. It gives every man in
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  Speaker 8: the crew 50 guineas prize money.
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  Speaker 2: A tibetan is not a prize ship.
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  Speaker 9: I beg your pardon, sir.
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  Speaker 2: She's to be used by our ally, Don Julian.
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  Speaker 9: You're giving her away?
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  Speaker 8: But, sir, your own share had come to at least 10,000.
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  Speaker 2: I ask for no figures.
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  Speaker 8: But, sir, you said yourself that Don Julian's mad.
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  Speaker 2: I alone will have to answer to the Admiralty for
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  Speaker 2: this decision. Now get your party together and we'll go below.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, senor. Welcome aboard. We've been expecting you.
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  Speaker 7: You greet me with 11 guns.
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  Speaker 14: The correct salute for El Supremo, Capitano, is 23 guns.
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  Speaker 2: The king himself receives only 21.
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  Speaker 14: That is why I always have 23.
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  Speaker 7: But last night you killed many.
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  Speaker 2: No, I didn't want to deprive you of your crew, Supremo.
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  Speaker 14: I shall kill the officers and then replace them with
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  Speaker 14: my own.
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  Speaker 15: Where are they?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, I.
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  Speaker 9: I, uh.
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  Speaker 2: I greatly regret that I threw them overboard earlier this morning.
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  Speaker 2: With their hands and feet tied, of course.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, that is a pity. We shall sail north from
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  Speaker 14: here tonight. You will proceed south to blockade Panama.
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  Speaker 2: As those were my orders, senor. I shall lose no
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  Speaker 2: time in fulfilling them. Assemble forces, Mr. Bush. We're returning
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  Speaker 2: to the Lydia.
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  Speaker 9: Both ships cleared the bay that night.
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  Speaker 8: Our crew was angry that they'd lost their prize money
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  Speaker 8: given away by their captain.
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  Speaker 9: To an insane killer.
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  Speaker 8: We were still grumbling about it five days later when
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  Speaker 8: we picked up a small Lager flying in Spanish colors
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  Speaker 8: and a white flag. Among those aboard were two women
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  Speaker 8: and a colonel named Intesa.
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  Speaker 18: Thank heaven we found you in time, Captain Hornblower.
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  Speaker 2: I should still like to know why you're carrying a
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  Speaker 2: white flag.
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  Speaker 18: Captain Hornblower... I welcome you as the new ally of Spain.
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  Speaker 2: A lie?
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  Speaker 18: For a month now, your country and mine have been
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  Speaker 18: brothers in arms against Napoleon. Oh, perhaps you think my
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  Speaker 18: news is too good to be true. Here then, senor,
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  Speaker 18: a letter from your own admiralty.
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  Speaker 9: A letter? Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: As you will see for yourself, senor, Napoleon kidnapped our king.
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  Speaker 7: and put his own brother on the throne of Spain.
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  Speaker 18: Our government in exile immediately concluded an alliance with Great Britain.
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  Speaker 7: I sought you out immediately.
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  Speaker 18: So easily you might have fallen afoul of our worship
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  Speaker 18: de Natividad.
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  Speaker 2: It so happened, sir, that last week we did encounter
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  Speaker 2: the Natividad.
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  Speaker 9: Madre de Dios.
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  Speaker 2: And captured her.
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  Speaker 9: Señor....
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  Speaker 7: Surely, you are joking.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. Longley?
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  Speaker 19: Aye, sir.
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  Speaker 2: You will take Colonel Intenza below. I think he'd like
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  Speaker 2: a word or two with the captain of the Natividad.
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  Speaker 20: And now may I be allowed to say something? My
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  Speaker 20: name is Wellesley, Captain. Lady Barbara Wellesley.
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  Speaker 2: Wellesley? You're not related to the Duke of Wellington.
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  Speaker 17: He's my brother.
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  Speaker 16: But.
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  Speaker 2: You, ma'am? On a Spanish lugger?
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  Speaker 20: There's yellow fever in Panama. When Colonel Intenza set out
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  Speaker 20: in search of you, he was kind enough to.
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  Speaker 17: Allow me to go with him.
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  Speaker 2: But in the name of all common sense, ma'am, why?
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  Speaker 20: Because I require passage to England for myself and my maid.
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  Speaker 2: Aboard the Lydia?
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  Speaker 20: What other British ship is in these waters, sir? Do
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  Speaker 20: you suggest we swim home?
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  Speaker 2: I suggest that your ladyship get back aboard that lugger,
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  Speaker 2: that you cross the isthmus and embark on a ship
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  Speaker 2: which has frills and fancies enough for women passengers.
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  Speaker 20: Captain Hornblower, last week a thousand people died in Panama
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  Speaker 20: of yellow fever.
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  Speaker 2: May I ask why you were there in the first place?
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  Speaker 20: Because the British packet I was sailing on was captured
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  Speaker 20: by the Spaniards. And I must say, I was treated
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  Speaker 20: by the enemy with more courtesy than I have so
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  Speaker 20: far received from the captain of his majesty's ship, Lydia.
• 16:39
  Speaker 17: Exactly.
• 16:40
  Speaker 18: Captain Hornblur, it cannot be true. You gave her to
• 16:46
  Speaker 18: the rebel, to Alvarado.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: I did exactly that, senor.
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: But you already were our ally.
• 16:52
  Speaker 18: Do you realize what you have done? We have no
• 16:54
  Speaker 18: other ship of war in the Pacific. They will burn
• 16:56
  Speaker 18: our ports, bombard our cities.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Yes, I am well aware of the situation. Your Ladyship,
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: this removes any possibility of your remaining aboard.
• 17:03
  Speaker 21: Indeed.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: I have no choice but to pursue the Natividad. We'll
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: be engaging a ship twice our size. If we're defeated,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: you'll be in the hands of a butchering maniac.
• 17:12
  Speaker 17: And if I return to Panama, I'll probably die of
• 17:14
  Speaker 17: the fever.
• 17:15
  Speaker 20: Since there's a good chance of death in either case,
• 17:18
  Speaker 20: I must insist on making the choice myself.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: But you don't seem to.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Mr. Gerard, Lady Wellesley will be moving into my cabin.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: I must ask you to return to your lugger at once, Colonel.
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: Colonel?
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Mr. Bush? Yes, sir? Get this ship underway.
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: I want every stitch of canvas she'll carry.
• 17:35
  Speaker 17: I hope I'll not be disturbing the ship's routine, Mr. Girard.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, no. Not in the least, ma'am.
• 17:42
  Speaker 17: I'm afraid your captain thinks otherwise.
• 17:44
  Speaker 13: He's got a lot on his mind, ma'am. If he
• 17:46
  Speaker 13: doesn't retake the Natividad, he's in for serious trouble.
• 17:49
  Speaker 20: Surely it isn't his fault that Spain changed sides in
• 17:52
  Speaker 20: the war?
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid the Admiralty won't stop to consider that, ma'am.
• 17:56
  Speaker 17: You're fond of the captain, aren't you?
• 17:58
  Speaker 13: Ma'am, he's... He's the best officer in the service. He's
• 18:02
  Speaker 13: a better sailor than Mr. Bush, a better gunner than Mr. Longley,
• 18:05
  Speaker 13: and when it comes to navigation, ma'am, I don't hold
• 18:08
  Speaker 13: a candle to him.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: Begging your pardon, ma'am, and that's not all. He's as
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: gentle and warm-hearted as any man who's ever.
• 18:15
  Speaker 9: Mr.
• 18:15
  Speaker 11: George!
• 18:17
  Speaker 17: Gentle and warm-hearted. I see what you mean.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: How are you?
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: Excuse me, ma'am.
• 18:23
  Speaker 21: Mr.
• 18:23
  Speaker 9: Bush!
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Let me remind everyone aboard that this is still a
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: ship of war.
• 18:27
  Speaker 11: Now, get away!
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: In a few moments, we'll return with Act Two of
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Captain Horatio Hornblower. Now, here's Libby Collins with the Luxe
• 18:51
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• 18:52
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• 18:53
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• 18:55
  Speaker 10: keep you chuckling from start to finish.
• 18:57
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• 19:00
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• 19:04
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• 19:05
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• 19:09
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• 19:13
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• 19:16
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• 19:18
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• 19:21
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• 19:24
  Speaker 10: of love in room for one more. It's such a
• 19:27
  Speaker 10: wonderful scrub-behind-the-ears sort of movie.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: With our big bath-sized looks, I trust.
• 19:33
  Speaker 17: But of course.
• 19:35
  Speaker 10: And Lux lovely Betsy Drake is absolutely endearing as the
• 19:38
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• 19:39
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• 19:41
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• 19:43
  Speaker 10: little dynamos, she really needed a beauty pickup and appreciated
• 19:48
  Speaker 10: her Lux soap beauty bath more than anything.
• 19:50
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• 19:50
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• 19:52
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• 19:54
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• 20:02
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• 20:03
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• 20:07
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• 20:10
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• 20:15
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• 20:18
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• 20:31
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• 20:36
  Speaker 4: our producer, Mr. William Keeley.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: Act two of Captain Horatio Hornblower, starring Gregory Peck in
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: the title role and Virginia Mayo as Lady Barbara.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: ¶ ¶.
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: Our course was now subtly in pursuit of the nativity.
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: Each day the glances of the crew lingered longer and
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: more openly on Lady Barbara Wellesley and her maid. And
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: each day Captain Hornblower became more irritable.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I will tell you once again, Mr. Bush, we are
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: not on a pleasure cruise. Our lives and our passengers'
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: lives depend upon this ship being properly handled. You will
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: inform her ladyship.
• 21:23
  Speaker 17: There will be no need to inform me, Mr.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Bush.
• 21:25
  Speaker 20: Captain Hornblower has a way of making himself heard even
• 21:28
  Speaker 20: above the wind.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: All I ask, ma'am, is that you use a little
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: more discretion.
• 21:33
  Speaker 17: Can two women really be so distracting, Captain?
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: May I remind you, ma'am, that my men have been
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: continually at sea for more than seven months.
• 21:43
  Speaker 21: And you, sir, how long have you been at sea? I.
• 21:47
  Speaker 16: I....
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Mr. Gerard, conduct Lady Barbara and her maid to the
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: cable tier. They will remain there until the action is over.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Port Sir Helm, keep his post to the window, shall I?
• 22:08
  Speaker 17: The cable tier, Mr.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Gerard?
• 22:10
  Speaker 17: What if I refuse?
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I should then have to carry you, ma'am. Orders, milady.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: But get me shot if you didn't.
• 22:16
  Speaker 17: I shouldn't want to do that, Mr. Julian.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Larvey, beat the quarters. Prepare for action.
• 22:20
  Speaker 18: Aye, aye, sir.
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: Beat the quarters.
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: Don Julian will be in for quite a shock, sir,
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: when he gets his 23-gun salute broadside.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid not, Mr.
• 22:32
  Speaker 9: Bush.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: They're running out their cannon. Looks as though he's heard
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: the news, too.
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: She's got twice our gun, twice our men.
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: Can't stand off and pound them.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: We can't go in and bore them.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Well, that makes our decision very simple, Mr.
• 22:42
  Speaker 9: Bush.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: We'll have to out-sail her and hit when she can't
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: hit back. That's the word, Mr. Bush. Stop at battery
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: load and stand by.
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: That's it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 18: Stop at battery load and stand by.
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: It was not our guns that sunk in the tippity
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: of the day, nor the bravery of our crew, so
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: much as the skill and the instinct of the man
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: who met us.
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: A man who knew wind.
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: And sail and water so intimately, that in his hands
• 23:11
  Speaker 8: the Lydia was almost human, dodging, fainting, healing, wheeling, and
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: all the while pouring a deadly fire into the heart
• 23:17
  Speaker 8: of the enemy, till she disappeared beneath the waves.
• 23:25
  Speaker 9: It was a great victory, sir.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: The men, I should like a word with the men.
• 23:29
  Speaker 9: Yes, sir. Hold hands, ten shop.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Hold hands, ten shop. Our mission in the Pacific is finished, gentlemen.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: Thank you for the manner in which you've all carried
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: out your duties. Your conduct today will be brought to
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: the attention of the Admiralty. You had a right to
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: hope for prize money. In that regard, I've failed you.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: You'll find us another prize, sir.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: It's a big ocean. Well, there's little left that I
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: can offer you except my gratitude and a double ration
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: of rum all round.
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: Dismissed.
• 24:04
  Speaker 15: Mr.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Gerard?
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: Sir?
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I've told you I wanted Dex cleared for action in
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: ten minutes. You did it in eight. I'm much obliged.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. Well, she's a sorry-looking ship, Mr. Gerard.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Give us a couple of weeks, sir. She'll be as
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: good as new again. Clear the wreckage as quickly as
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: you can. How many dead, Mr.
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: Bush? There'll be close to 20, sir.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: 20 dead. Well, I'll go below and see the wounded. Yes, sir.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Who's with them? McRae, sir. Bush again. And her ladyship, sir. What?
• 24:39
  Speaker 9: She insisted on helping, sir. There are so many.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: She's down there in all that mess?
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: There's no stopping her, sir.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Why, she disobeyed orders. She's a stubborn woman, Mr.
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: Bush. Yes, sir.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: For which the wounded and I give profound thanks. Good afternoon,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Lady Wellesley.
• 25:10
  Speaker 17: Good afternoon, Captain.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: I haven't had the opportunity yet to properly thank you
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: for everything you did for the men. You were very
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: busy that day.
• 25:19
  Speaker 17: You don't have to thank me.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: You're trembling. Have you a chill, Your Ladyship?
• 25:26
  Speaker 17: It's just the strain of the past week.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't wonder. What you saw was never meant
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: for woman's eyes.
• 25:32
  Speaker 17: But I did see, Captain.
• 25:34
  Speaker 20: And I know there's not another officer in the Navy
• 25:36
  Speaker 20: who could have done what you've done on this voyage.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: I'm glad you think so, Your Ladyship.
• 25:42
  Speaker 17: My maid. Please, if you would call my maid.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Your Ladyship.
• 25:47
  Speaker 17: I'm afraid I'm ill, Captain. I'm afraid I.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: Bush.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Mr. Longley. Her Ladyship. Give me a hand.
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: She's still unconscious, sir. Could the maid tell you anything?
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: The maid's hysterical. She says it's the fever. Yellow fever
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: from Panama.
• 26:10
  Speaker 9: Maybe she's right, sir. And our surgeon dead?
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Bring me the medical books from the sick bay and
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: more blankets. But don't come in. Just push them inside
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: the door. If it's yellow fever, this cabin will have
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: to be quarantined.
• 26:22
  Speaker 9: What else could it be, sir?
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but swamp fever and yellow fever have
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: the same symptoms in the beginning. When will you know? Well,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: if it's swamp fever, her temperature will break in 72 hours.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: If it's yellow fever, I.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Well, just bring me those books, Mr.
• 26:40
  Speaker 9: Bush.
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: Three days later, the men had occasion to cheer once again.
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: Lady Barbara was going to recover. And for the first
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: time in those three days, Captain Hornblower left her cabin.
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: He called for Mr.
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: Paul Wheel to bring his razor and shaver.
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: You've got a happy ship again, Captain, sir.
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: The men are that fond of our ladyship, sir.
• 27:08
  Speaker 18: To say nothing of the black mark there'd be against
• 27:10
  Speaker 18: us if anything happened to the Duke of Wellington's sister,
• 27:13
  Speaker 18: it wouldn't set so well with Mucho Pomposo either, sir.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Mucho Pomposo?
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: Oh, I beg your pardon, sir. I meant Admiral Leighton,
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: the man she's going to.
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: Marry, sir.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Marry? Who told you that, Mr.
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: Powell?
• 27:26
  Speaker 18: A ladyship's maid, sir. They're to be married as soon
• 27:29
  Speaker 18: as she gets back to England.
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: Will that be all, sir?
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's all, Powell. Thank you.
• 27:37
  Speaker 17: Please sit down, Captain.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: I just stopped by to see how you're feeling this morning.
• 27:41
  Speaker 17: Much better, thanks to my doctor.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: I did no more than read a medical book, Your Ladyship.
• 27:47
  Speaker 21: And go without sleep for 72 hours.
• 27:50
  Speaker 17: Yes, I know.
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: Mr.
• 27:51
  Speaker 17: Polwheel told me.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Mr. Polwheel might have added that that's not at all
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: unusual for a sailor, Your Ladyship.
• 27:56
  Speaker 21: I do wish you'd call me Lady Barbara instead of
• 27:58
  Speaker 21: Your Ladyship.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: If you wish, ma'am, thank you.
• 28:01
  Speaker 20: Of course, if Lady Barbara doesn't come easily to you
• 28:03
  Speaker 20: and you wish to attract my attention, you can always say.
• 28:06
  Speaker 22: You.
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: Know, you're very observant.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: No one's ever noticed that before.
• 28:14
  Speaker 20: No one, I'm sure. Except every man aboard the ship.
• 28:18
  Speaker 20: When should we reach England, Captain?
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: In the spring, Lady Barbara.
• 28:22
  Speaker 17: It will take that long.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Well, I know how anxious you must be to get
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: home again. I'll do my best, Lady Barbara.
• 28:27
  Speaker 17: I'm sure you will. Thank you.
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: A few nights later, I saw them together. They were
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: standing at the rail, looking out across the sea toward England.
• 28:46
  Speaker 20: How beautiful the stars are tonight. It's as though we
• 28:50
  Speaker 20: were sailing the heavens instead of the sea.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Well, in a way we are. We steer from star
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: to star rather than from land to land.
• 28:59
  Speaker 21: You never forget you're the captain of a ship, do you?
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: No.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: A ship's captain cannot afford to forget.
• 29:05
  Speaker 20: On a night like this, I can forget everything. Who
• 29:08
  Speaker 20: I am, where I come from, where I'm going. I
• 29:13
  Speaker 20: only know that the Lydia is sailing on and on
• 29:15
  Speaker 20: into space.
• 29:17
  Speaker 21: There is no other world, and this voyage will never end.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: It will end sooner than I thought.
• 29:24
  Speaker 21: Is that what you really want?
• 29:25
  Speaker 17: A quick passage?
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: It's getting late. There'll soon be a chill in the air.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: These tropical nights are deceptive.
• 29:37
  Speaker 21: I don't want a quick passage.
• 29:39
  Speaker 17: I don't want this voyage to end. How much longer
• 29:43
  Speaker 17: are we going to pretend?
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Barbara.
• 29:46
  Speaker 20: You must know I love you. Why do you fight
• 29:49
  Speaker 20: against it? I.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I'm married, Lady Barbara. Married? Married?
• 30:02
  Speaker 21: Oh, forgive me.
• 30:05
  Speaker 17: I've made a terrible mistake. I'm deeply ashamed.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: No, wait.
• 30:10
  Speaker 17: No, no, please, let me go. Stay here and speed
• 30:14
  Speaker 17: your ship.
• 30:15
  Speaker 11: Home with me.
• 30:26
  Speaker 9: For two weeks, they avoided each other.
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: But as we sped closer and closer to England, so
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: were they drawn closer to each other.
• 30:36
  Speaker 21: Mr. Bush said that we're nearing land, and I saw
• 30:39
  Speaker 21: some seagulls.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, those seagulls sleep in England. The weather holds. We'll
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: sight Plymouth by morning.
• 30:45
  Speaker 17: Plymouth by morning.
• 30:48
  Speaker 21: Oh, my love.
• 30:50
  Speaker 16: Barbara.
• 30:51
  Speaker 21: I have no longing for the land.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Nor I.
• 30:55
  Speaker 17: I've known from the first, I think.
• 30:57
  Speaker 20: When you tried to make me leave the ship. All
• 31:01
  Speaker 20: captain and no heart, I thought. Now every mile closer
• 31:05
  Speaker 20: to England is agony for me.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: What are we to do?
• 31:09
  Speaker 9: Do?
• 31:10
  Speaker 21: We're lovers and the world is ours.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: But we're not free, Barbara. Either of us.
• 31:19
  Speaker 21: Do you really believe it can end here? In this
• 31:22
  Speaker 21: one moment?
• 31:23
  Speaker 9: It must.
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: It must.
• 31:28
  Speaker 9: I see.
• 31:28
  Speaker 15: It.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: It isn't easy for me to say. Please, try to understand.
• 31:37
  Speaker 17: Good night, Captain Hornblower.
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: Good night, Lady Barbara.
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: The next morning, we dropped anchor in Plymouth Harbour. An
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: honor was waiting our ship The first from shore to
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: board her was an admiral, Sir Rodney Layton.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Captain Hornblower at your service, sir. Lady Wesley is aboard,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: is she not? She's been informed of your arrival, sir. Well,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: you return a famous man, Captain Hornblower. Of course, it's
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: my personal belief that you were very fortunate to sink
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: the Natividad, having first given her away, and on your
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: own initiative, I believe. Seemed the best thing to do
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: at the times.
• 32:28
  Speaker 15: But really, Hornblower, giving away a 60-gun prize to a madman?
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I stand ready to answer for my actions, sir. In addition,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: you risk the life of the Duke of Wellington's sister.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: I apologize for that, sir. I, too, value Lady Barbara highly.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: We're going to be married.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Yes, so Lady Barbara has told me, sir.
• 32:44
  Speaker 15: Yes, I suppose a ship of this size is rather
• 32:47
  Speaker 15: confining and confidence is freer than under normal circumstances.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, here you are at last, my dear.
• 32:54
  Speaker 17: How good of you to come aboard.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: You've no idea how concerned I've been.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: For your welfare.
• 32:58
  Speaker 21: That was, sweet of you, but you had no reason
• 33:00
  Speaker 21: to worry.
• 33:01
  Speaker 15: I'm glad to hear that. Shall we go? Your family
• 33:04
  Speaker 15: awaits you impatiently in London.
• 33:06
  Speaker 17: Yes, of course. Goodbye, Captain Hornblower.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Lady Barbara.
• 33:13
  Speaker 21: Thank you for your... for your kindness.
• 33:17
  Speaker 15: Attention!
• 33:28
  Speaker 9: This was the end of our voyage.
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: That night, Captain Hornblower entered his home for the first
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: time in more than a year.
• 33:36
  Speaker 9: But the wife he'd come back to was gone.
• 33:39
  Speaker 21: If only you could have come back sooner, Captain, to
• 33:42
  Speaker 21: be here in time.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: What are you trying to tell me, Mrs.
• 33:46
  Speaker 9: McPhee?
• 33:47
  Speaker 21: She's dead, sir. Died in trial bed, sir, given your son.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Dead?
• 33:53
  Speaker 21: Oh, she so wanted to live, sir. At least until
• 33:56
  Speaker 21: you returned. She left this for you, sir. It was
• 34:02
  Speaker 21: on her deathbed she wrote it.
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: Thank you. Where is the child?
• 34:09
  Speaker 21: In here, sir.
• 34:10
  Speaker 17: He's sleeping, sir.
• 34:12
  Speaker 21: A good, strong lad, Captain.
• 34:19
  Speaker 9: I'd like to be alone with him, Mrs. McPhee.
• 34:21
  Speaker 21: Yes, sir, of course.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Not knowing where you are, I cannot send these last
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: words to you. But I pray you will come back
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: to read them. Do not forget me completely when I'm gone.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Though we've been married for 15 years, in all that time.
• 34:47
  Speaker 9: In all.
• 34:48
  Speaker 16: That time, we were together for only 15 months. One Christmas,
• 34:53
  Speaker 16: two birthdays. But I am not sorry for the years.
• 34:59
  Speaker 16: I know you have not loved me deeply. But I
• 35:02
  Speaker 16: have loved you more for never betraying it to me.
• 35:06
  Speaker 16: Maybe you have saved your love for our son. Come
• 35:08
  Speaker 16: to him soon. Your devoted wife, Maria.
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: Several days later, I met Captain Hornblow at the Admiralty
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: in London. It was there that I learned of his
• 35:27
  Speaker 8: wife's death. of his son, and of his well-deserved promotion.
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: He was now to command a ship of 74 guns.
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: She'd been captured from the French and renamed the Sutherland.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: We've been assigned Admiral Leighton's squadron, Mr.
• 35:41
  Speaker 16: Bush.
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: Leighton, sir.
• 35:43
  Speaker 9: Then he's back from his honeymoon.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Lord Hood believes that Napoleon has bitten off more than
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: he can chew in the Spanish peninsula. The Duke of
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Wellington has an excellent chance to defeat him if the
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Navy can maintain the blockade. Our orders are that not
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: a single French ship must sail.
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: And when do we sail, sir?
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Well, I should know that shortly. All captains are reporting
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: now to Admiral Layton. If you can meet me.
• 36:03
  Speaker 17: Captain Hornblower.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Lady Barbara.
• 36:06
  Speaker 9: I'm at the Stanley Arm, sir. It's not far off.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Bush.
• 36:10
  Speaker 17: I hoped we'd meet.
• 36:12
  Speaker 21: I wanted to tell you how sorry I was about.
• 36:14
  Speaker 17: The news you had at home.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Lady Barbara.
• 36:20
  Speaker 21: I hear you have a son.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Yes. He's a boy to be proud of.
• 36:25
  Speaker 17: I'm sure he is.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Well, I.
• 36:30
  Speaker 9: I....
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: I must take my leave now. I wish you every happiness.
• 36:37
  Speaker 17: Thank you.
• 36:40
  Speaker 21: Goodbye, Horatio.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Goodbye, Barbara.
• 36:55
  Speaker 15: So it's fortunate we're all here, gentlemen. Some startling news
• 36:59
  Speaker 15: has just arrived. Under cover of a thick fog, four
• 37:02
  Speaker 15: of Napoleon's ships have broken out of our blockade at Brest.
• 37:05
  Speaker 15: We must be after them at once. Any idea what
• 37:07
  Speaker 15: course they took, sir? The only place they could go
• 37:09
  Speaker 15: is to the Mediterranean. Now, if you'll look at the map...
• 37:13
  Speaker 15: We should intercept them about here. Four against four. The
• 37:18
  Speaker 15: outcome is obvious.
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: You don't agree, Captain Hornblower?
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: May I ask you where else they would go? I
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: should bet, sir, here, to the north of Spain.
• 37:28
  Speaker 9: Nonsense.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Why should they? Napoleon's army has already been pushed deep
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: into Spain by the Duke of Wellington. Well, then, if
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: I were Napoleon, sir, I'd consider it a good idea
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: to make a thrust from the northeast and come up
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: behind the Duke.
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: Apply them by sea.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Better than hauling over the Pyrenees Mountains.
• 37:43
  Speaker 15: The French would never risk four ships on such a
• 37:45
  Speaker 15: wild gamble.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Does Napoleon care about ships, sir? I submit most urgently, sir,
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: that instead of standing out to sea, we move north
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: along the French coast. And I disagree.
• 37:55
  Speaker 23: Perhaps we could take care of both possibilities with a
• 37:58
  Speaker 23: wide deployment.
• 37:59
  Speaker 9: Three of us running out from here and one ship inshore.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Good idea, Bolton.
• 38:06
  Speaker 15: You see, gentlemen, I've no objection to a practical suggestion...
• 38:09
  Speaker 15: We've a war to win.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Well, very well then.
• 38:12
  Speaker 15: Now, who goes inshore? Which of our ships has the
• 38:14
  Speaker 15: shallowest draft? The southern one, sir.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: French built.
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: Hmm.
• 38:18
  Speaker 15: I see now what was influencing you, Hornblur. The prospect
• 38:22
  Speaker 15: of a prize or two, eh?
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Not at all, sir.
• 38:25
  Speaker 15: I'm ordering you not to risk your ship in any
• 38:28
  Speaker 15: way for any reason. If you sight the enemy, you'll
• 38:31
  Speaker 15: bring the news to me and we'll dispose of them together.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Is that clear?
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Perfectly clear, sir. I have one request, sir.
• 38:39
  Speaker 24: Well?
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: I beg permission to put out to sea at once, sir.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Good hunting, Hornblower.
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: Thank you, sir.
• 38:48
  Speaker 24: We'll be back with Act Three of Captain Horatio Hornblower
• 39:02
  Speaker 24: in a few moments.
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: But first, my guest for tonight, Miss Virginia Gibson. You know,
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: she's one of the busiest young players on the Warner
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: Brothers lot.
• 39:10
  Speaker 17: Thank you, Mr.
• 39:10
  Speaker 9: Keeley.
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: Now, uh, brush prettily, Virginia, while I tell our audience.
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: You know, Miss Gibson has that, uh, devastating combination. Red hair,
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: blue eyes, and a luxe-lovely complexion.
• 39:22
  Speaker 22: You do have me blushing and looking for a quick
• 39:25
  Speaker 22: change of subject. Like, the rumor that's all over Hollywood.
• 39:29
  Speaker 10: Hmm?
• 39:30
  Speaker 22: About the coming Academy Awards. Rumor has it that the
• 39:33
  Speaker 22: Warner Brothers presentation, A Streetcar Named Desire, will be a
• 39:37
  Speaker 22: top contender for the year's best picture.
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: Well, the New York film critics voted it the best
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: English-language picture, with awards for the director, Ilya Kazan.
• 39:45
  Speaker 22: And for Vivian Leigh, in a role opposite Marlon Brando.
• 39:49
  Speaker 17: Now, if Mr.
• 39:49
  Speaker 22: Kazan and Miss Leigh win Oscars from the Academy.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Which they're likely to.
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: For in A Streetcar Named Desire, Vivian Leigh proves once
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: more she's a great actress.
• 39:58
  Speaker 17: And a beautiful actress.
• 39:59
  Speaker 22: Oh, just a look at her complexion makes me more
• 40:02
  Speaker 22: devoted than ever to my Lux soap facials.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: It's easy to see that you're a Lux girl, Virginia.
• 40:07
  Speaker 17: That almost goes for granted in Hollywood.
• 40:09
  Speaker 22: I don't need to tell you that Lux toilet soap
• 40:11
  Speaker 22: is Hollywood's favorite beauty care.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: With good reason.
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: Screen stars know that daily Lux facials make skin softer, smoother,
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: really Lux lovely.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: And they're so easy.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: You simply cream in the rich, active lather for gentle,
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: thorough cleansing. Then rinse with warm water and splash with cold.
• 40:28
  Speaker 16: You can see.
• 40:29
  Speaker 21: Right away, John, that your skin looks really lovelier.
• 40:32
  Speaker 17: So soft and fresh.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Virginia Gibson. Why don't you try Hollywood Beauty
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: Care daily Lux soap facials? You'll see you can be
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: Lux lovely. Remember, nine out of ten screen stars use Lux.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: We pause now for station identification. This is the CBS
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: radio network.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: The curtain rises on Act Three of Captain Horatio Hornblower,
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: starring Gregory Peck in the title role and Virginia Mayo
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: as Lady Barbara.
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: We were bound now for the Spanish coast in search
• 41:44
  Speaker 8: of the four French warships and under strictest orders not
• 41:47
  Speaker 8: to engage them without Admiral Layton. We'd been at sea
• 41:51
  Speaker 8: less than 24 hours when we sighted a French brig.
• 41:55
  Speaker 9: For some amazing reason, she made no attempt to run away.
• 41:57
  Speaker 8: She must think we're French.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: We can hardly blame her, Mr. Longley, considering we're French-built.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: It's her signal flags that puzzle me.
• 42:05
  Speaker 8: Just two letters, sir.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: M and B.
• 42:08
  Speaker 9: Did not McCabe.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: She'll start running fast enough if we don't answer. We'll
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: port helm Mr. Bush and put one across her bow.
• 42:15
  Speaker 9: Aye, sir. Port your helm.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Fire when ready, Mr.
• 42:18
  Speaker 16: Girard.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Ready now, sir.
• 42:20
  Speaker 7: Steady.
• 42:22
  Speaker 17: Fire!
• 42:25
  Speaker 7: She's lowering her flag, sir.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: Take a boat and board her, Mr. Bush. Bring her
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: under our lee, and then I'd like a word with
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: her captains. Lively now, we may just be wasting time. Well,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: I'm glad you've joined us, Mr.
• 42:43
  Speaker 9: Bush.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: I'm having a little difficulty with our captain here.
• 42:46
  Speaker 9: Oh, shall I flog it out of him, sir?
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: No, I don't enjoy brutality, Mr.
• 42:50
  Speaker 15: Bush.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Just take him up on deck, chop off his head,
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: and give his body to the cook. No, no, no, Capitan. No,
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: I tell you what you ought to know. Then perhaps
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: you'll tell us what that signal means, that MV.
• 43:03
  Speaker 15: Oui, it is France Recognition Signal.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Ah, that may be very useful, Mr. Bush. Tell all
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: the prize crew to sail the brig back to England.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: Brig and cargo ought to be worth 2,000 pounds, sir.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: What is the cargo?
• 43:16
  Speaker 8: 40 tons of powder, sir, 100 casks of beef, 1,000
• 43:19
  Speaker 8: bushel of oats.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Thousand bushels of.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: You know what that means?
• 43:25
  Speaker 9: Well, of horses, I'd say, sir.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: And horses mean cavalry. You, where were you bound? Come on, man,
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: or I'll guillotine you here and now. Where were you bound?
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: La Teste, Captain. The port of La Teste. There's no
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: army near La Teste. You were going to transfer your
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: cargo to four French ships, the ones that escaped from
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Brest for an attack on Wellington in Spain. Yes, sir, Captain.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Four warships. Mr. Bush crammed on all sail and set
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: a course for La Teste.
• 43:50
  Speaker 9: Are we going in alone, sir, without advising the Admiral?
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, we've no time. I'd rather be court-martialed and let
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: those ships get away again. You can send the French
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: brig to look for Leighton's squadron. Yes, sir. And tell
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: the sailmaker to make me a French flag.
• 44:02
  Speaker 8: We stood off La Teste by early morning... A heavy
• 44:08
  Speaker 8: fog hung like a curtain over the harbor. But if
• 44:11
  Speaker 8: it shot the enemy from our side, we too were protected.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: We're going in through the fog, Mr.
• 44:17
  Speaker 9: Bush.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Sun's coming out. By the time they're in range, that
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: fog will be gone.
• 44:21
  Speaker 8: Let's hope the French flag fools them, sir.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: We'll know soon enough. Keep the gun ports closed and
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: the crew out of sight. Aye, sir. Beat the quarters!
• 44:30
  Speaker 7: Beat the quarters!
• 44:37
  Speaker 8: Forty minutes later, they rose out of the mists before us.
• 44:41
  Speaker 8: Four gray ghosts side by side in the harbor.
• 44:45
  Speaker 9: Slowly, steadily, we closed in.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: There's a magnificent sight, Mr. Bush. We'll load with chain shot.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: I want those four Frenchmen dismasted.
• 44:54
  Speaker 8: I ask.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: You've hoisted the pennants, Mr. Gerard? Yes, sir.
• 44:57
  Speaker 9: MV.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: I believe we fooled them, sir. We'll close to point-blank
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: range and take them in succession. Are we ready, Mr. Butch?
• 45:03
  Speaker 9: Clear and ready, sir.
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: Then strike that French flag and send up our own, Mr.
• 45:07
  Speaker 9: Girard.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Sir. At her rigging. Fire as you bear. Port battery.
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: Fire as you bear.
• 45:20
  Speaker 8: I think that even the least of our crew felt
• 45:22
  Speaker 8: that we were destined for destruction. Yet not the least
• 45:25
  Speaker 8: of them but thrilled at the sight before us. For
• 45:27
  Speaker 8: this was something that most men under sail see only
• 45:30
  Speaker 8: in their dreams. Four enemy ships helplessly entrapped, our guns
• 45:34
  Speaker 8: pounding them to pieces.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: But our fire did not go unanswered.
• 45:38
  Speaker 8: From stem to stern we took their full fury.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Keep firing, men! Give them another broadside!
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: Carter reports the pumps are gone, sir. We can't stay
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: afloat much longer. Get back to your post, Mr. Quist.
• 45:50
  Speaker 9: Mr.
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: Bush!
• 45:51
  Speaker 12: Mr.
• 45:51
  Speaker 16: Bush!
• 45:52
  Speaker 9: Mr.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: Bush is wounded, sir.
• 45:53
  Speaker 15: His leg, and they just got a broadside battery.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: We'll fire forward, sir! Get your company together, Mr.
• 45:58
  Speaker 19: Longley.
• 45:59
  Speaker 15: Aye, aye, sir.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: Either wounded to anything that will float. Get them into
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: the water.
• 46:02
  Speaker 24: Quist!
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: Saunders, give a hand there with Mr. Bush. Flash him
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: well to a grating. Mr. Gerard!
• 46:07
  Speaker 15: Yes, sir!
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: Train one of your guns into the hole. Scoot around forward.
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Our ship's going to sink. We'll sink it. We'll do
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: some good here in their channel.
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: Standing by, sir.
• 46:18
  Speaker 11: Ready to fire.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: That's the word, abandon ship. Abandon ship. I'll wait, sir,
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: and fire the charge. You'll obey orders, Mr. Gerard, and
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: go over to the side. I still know how to
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: pull a lanyard. Very good, sir.
• 46:31
  Speaker 7: Abandon ship. All hands, abandon ship.
• 46:45
  Speaker 8: We weren't far from the shore. Most of us made it,
• 46:48
  Speaker 8: the tide bringing in the wounded. They were waiting for
• 46:51
  Speaker 8: us on the beach, French Marines and soldiers. We were
• 46:54
  Speaker 8: taken to a prison. Some hours later, Captain Hornblower joined
• 46:58
  Speaker 8: us there.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: I can now tell you for certain that two of
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: the French ships have sunk. The other two will never
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: get through the channels. By nightfall, Admiral Layton and the
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: squadron should be here. That means you'll all be free. Now,
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: where's Mr. Bush? He's out, sir, with the other wounded.
• 47:15
  Speaker 8: I'll say this for the Frenchies, sir.
• 47:17
  Speaker 12: They've done what they could for all of them.
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: Oh, Mr.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: Bush.
• 47:23
  Speaker 8: Thank God you're safe, sir.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: How's your leg? In a scratch.
• 47:25
  Speaker 8: When they come for us, I'll walk aboard.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: I've just been before their officers. You and I are
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: to be taken to Paris. We're to stand trial as pirates.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: They'll be coming for us any moment.
• 47:36
  Speaker 9: Pirates?
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Begging your pardon, sir. Yes, what is it, Quist? Mr. Bush,
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: he's not fit to travel far without care, sir.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: I'd like to look after him, sir.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: I can't allow you to do that, Quist. Why, within
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: a few hours, you'll be on your way home with
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: the rest of the men.
• 47:53
  Speaker 12: I respectfully submit, sir, you won't hardly find a way
• 47:56
  Speaker 12: of stopping me.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Quist. I'll say goodbye to you now, ma'am,
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: for myself and Mr.
• 48:04
  Speaker 9: Bush.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: It's not likely that we'll ever see you again. You
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: know the England that you fought for. You know that
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: you never need lose faith in her final victory. I
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: want to thank you for the honor that you've bestowed
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: on me by fighting at my side.
• 48:21
  Speaker 8: The coach was waiting for us outside the prison. The
• 48:33
  Speaker 8: colonel in charge and men on horses. There was a
• 48:36
  Speaker 8: great haste to get us on the way.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: Now, Bush, how do you feel?
• 48:41
  Speaker 9: Oh, it's not my leg that's worrying me, sir.
• 48:43
  Speaker 23: It's knowing that you won't even try to make a
• 48:45
  Speaker 23: break as long as I do. I'm afraid he's delirious, Quist.
• 48:49
  Speaker 23: He's talking sense, sir. There's just a colonel and the
• 48:52
  Speaker 23: four men. I'll stick with Mr.
• 48:54
  Speaker 9: Bush.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: No, it's all or none of us. Now, that's going
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: to be a long journey. Suppose we all try to
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: get some sleep.
• 49:03
  Speaker 8: Sometime later, I became aware that we'd stopped. Quist was
• 49:06
  Speaker 8: climbing back into the coach, and outside I could hear
• 49:09
  Speaker 8: the French officer shouting at his men. What was wrong, Quist?
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid I dozed off.
• 49:18
  Speaker 12: Something wrong with that starboard wheel.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Sir.
• 49:20
  Speaker 12: They didn't want to get their delicate hands dirty.
• 49:24
  Speaker 9: It was dark out, eh?
• 49:25
  Speaker 12: Aye, sir, and storming, too.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: You've been sleeping, sir. Are you all right, Bush?
• 49:30
  Speaker 9: All I needed was some rest.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: Just the same, Captain.
• 49:33
  Speaker 12: I think we'd better keep a tight hold on him
• 49:34
  Speaker 12: for a bit. That coach wheel. I made a terrible
• 49:38
  Speaker 12: job of fixing it, sir. Ought to be flogged for it.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: How, uh, how bad a job, Crist?
• 49:44
  Speaker 12: First good bump we hit, she's coming off. It'll be
• 49:47
  Speaker 12: then or never, sir.
• 49:51
  Speaker 8: It happened a few moments later. I remember the crash
• 49:56
  Speaker 8: as the coach overturned, the screaming of the horses.
• 49:58
  Speaker 9: The shouts of the Frenchmen.
• 50:00
  Speaker 8: I must have struck my head, for to this day
• 50:02
  Speaker 8: I do not know exactly what did happen. When my
• 50:06
  Speaker 8: senses returned, we were lying in some bushes next to
• 50:08
  Speaker 8: a river.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: Twist, look. He's coming around.
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: How did I get here?
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: Begging your pardon, sir, I carried you.
• 50:19
  Speaker 9: Oh, Christ.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: Sir, how bad is it?
• 50:23
  Speaker 9: How's the leg? I've gotten all about that, sir.
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: How did we get away? Well, when the wheel snapped,
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: the horses broke their lives. That and the storm, some
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: deplorable shooting, and here we are.
• 50:35
  Speaker 9: And where might that be, sir?
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: Now, this river is probably a tributary of the Loire.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: If we continue, we should eventually reach the Port of Nantes.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: And after that, sir? Well, beyond that is the sea... Meanwhile,
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: we'll need clothes for disguise and a boat to take
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: us down the river.
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  Speaker 12: I never meant to tell you, sir, but before I
• 50:54
  Speaker 12: joined the Navy, I served a term for theft. With
• 50:57
  Speaker 12: your permission, sir, I'll do some reconnoitering.
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  Speaker 2: Well, be back before daylight, Chris.
• 51:03
  Speaker 12: I will, sir, and I'll be coming back by.
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  Speaker 6: Boat.
• 51:13
  Speaker 8: We floated down the river by night until we reached Nazca.
• 51:16
  Speaker 8: There on the busy harbor, our chance of discovery lessened considerably.
• 51:21
  Speaker 8: The wharves were crowded with ships of every description. But
• 51:24
  Speaker 8: as we rowed among the docks.
• 51:26
  Speaker 9: One ship in particular took the captain's eye.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: Look at it, Bush. That dock ahead of us. What?
• 51:32
  Speaker 9: What's the old witch have been doing?
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: She went aground on the French coast two years ago.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: She looks seaworthy enough.
• 51:38
  Speaker 8: But it'll take 20 men to handle her.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Set a course for that key, Mr. Quist.
• 51:43
  Speaker 9: I'm going ashore.
• 51:48
  Speaker 8: He returned an hour later, full of information and in
• 51:51
  Speaker 8: a great hurry to tell us.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: Now, there's no time to ask questions. Just listen closely.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: They're using the Witch of Endor to ferry supplies from
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: here to San Nazar. She's waiting to unload now. There's
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: only an anchor watch aboard, two hands and a master's mate.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: Three of them, sir, and three of us.
• 52:04
  Speaker 9: We still need men to sail to England, sir.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: On the other side of the quay, Mr. Bush, they're
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: using English prisoners for convict labor. They're building a seawall.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: But surely they're on the guards, sir. A sergeant and
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: five men. First of all, we'll walk aboard the Witch
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: of Endor.
• 52:17
  Speaker 7: And then, sir?
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: Well, assuming that the three of us can dispose of
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: the three of them, I will then employ my very
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: best French and ask that sergeant of the guards to
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: lend me his prisoners to unload the cargo. After that,
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: we'll put our faith in God and 20 English prisoners.
• 52:40
  Speaker 8: I have often wondered since what went on in the
• 52:43
  Speaker 8: minds of the lookouts on the shores of Plymouth when.
• 52:46
  Speaker 9: First they saw the Witch.
• 52:48
  Speaker 8: Of Endor butting through the English Channel, full sails aloft,
• 52:52
  Speaker 8: our signal flags cracking in the wind.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: Take your glass, Mr.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: Garvin, and look at those flags.
• 52:58
  Speaker 7: She's asking permission to come into port.
• 53:00
  Speaker 9: The Witch of Endor?
• 53:02
  Speaker 7: Captain Horatio Hornblower?
• 53:05
  Speaker 9: It's a trick of some kind.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: Get on the telegraph.
• 53:07
  Speaker 9: Signal the naval station.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: There's time for that.
• 53:09
  Speaker 15: But if your eyesight's good and I'm sober, there's a
• 53:12
  Speaker 15: dead man approaching England in a lost ship.
• 53:14
  Speaker 7: It is the witch.
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: I'd know that old girl's beakhead anywhere.
• 53:18
  Speaker 9: Here, let me at the telegraph.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, blimey.
• 53:21
  Speaker 7: Wait till those cocktats in town hear this.
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: Lord Hood, sir.
• 53:26
  Speaker 15: The message from the harbor lookout has just been confirmed, sir.
• 53:29
  Speaker 15: It's the Witch of Endor, sir. Witch of Endor?
• 53:32
  Speaker 19: Is everyone in Plymouth drunk, Woodford?
• 53:34
  Speaker 15: They've confirmed Hornblower, too, sir, in private code. All Plymouth's
• 53:39
  Speaker 15: wild with excitement, sir.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: Plymouth?
• 53:41
  Speaker 19: If it really is Hornblower, all England will go wild. Well,
• 53:44
  Speaker 19: while you're standing about, man, meet him where he lands.
• 53:47
  Speaker 9: Bring him here.
• 53:47
  Speaker 19: Hornblower Dear Hornblower, the only pleasure I seem to get
• 53:58
  Speaker 19: from life these days is when you come home from
• 54:00
  Speaker 19: one of your confounded voyages.
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: Thank you, my lord. May I call your attention to
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: the very gallant behavior of my first lieutenant, Mr. Bush,
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: and Seaman Quist. Indeed you may.
• 54:10
  Speaker 19: Gentlemen, the greatest pleasure of an admiral is to reward
• 54:13
  Speaker 19: good conduct.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 54:14
  Speaker 19: Quist, I'm promoting you here and now to Bolton's mate.
• 54:17
  Speaker 12: I'm not obliged, my lord.
• 54:18
  Speaker 19: And you, Mr. Bush, are now Captain Bush. If Leighton
• 54:22
  Speaker 19: had known you were still alive... I'm sure he would have.
• 54:26
  Speaker 7: Recommended it in his last report.
• 54:29
  Speaker 19: His last report, sir? Of course, you couldn't have known.
• 54:33
  Speaker 19: Leighton was killed at La Teste.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: Great loss.
• 54:37
  Speaker 19: We need all of our admirals if we're ever to
• 54:39
  Speaker 19: finish this confounded war.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, my lord.
• 54:43
  Speaker 7: Honbleur, you'll leave for London at once.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid I can't, sir.
• 54:46
  Speaker 9: Can't?
• 54:47
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't be surprised if there were a knighthood in
• 54:49
  Speaker 7: it for you.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: Thank you, my lord, but I'd like to see my
• 54:53
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• 54:56
  Speaker 2: Give him my coach, Mr. Woodward. Oh, thank you, my lord. Well,
• 55:08
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• 55:12
  Speaker 2: know my own son.
• 55:14
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• 55:17
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• 55:18
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• 55:23
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• 55:24
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• 55:25
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• 55:28
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• 55:45
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• 56:44
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• 56:51
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• 56:52
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• 56:54
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• 56:57
  Speaker 5: curtain call. Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayer. Greg, you've always
• 57:07
  Speaker 5: been one of the busiest men in Hollywood with your screen, stage,
• 57:10
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• 57:11
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• 57:16
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• 57:17
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• 57:22
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• 57:25
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• 57:27
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• 57:30
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• 57:33
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• 57:34
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• 57:55
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• 57:57
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  Speaker 5: Monday evening The Lux Radio Theater presents Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford.
• 59:33
  Speaker 8: And Mona Freeman in Brandon.
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: This is William Keeley saying goodnight to you from Hollywood.
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: Heard in our cast tonight were Anthony Barrett as Mr. Bush,
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: Charles Davis as Longley, Peter Owen as Quist, Dan O'Herlihy
• 59:53
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• 59:59
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  Speaker 4: night to hear Branded, starring Burt Lancaster, Mona Freeman, and
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  Speaker 1: That was Lux Radio Theater's Captain Horatio Hornblower. Good night,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: and thank you for joining us.