Horatio Hornblower - Spain Becomes Neutral

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Come out the guard, stand by, let's turn it better.

One broadside in to it, please, Captain Bush.

Point of some target, bring stuff ready.

Eyes are ready.

Fire!

Presenting Michael Redgrave as sea as far as to his indomitable man of the sea,

Horatio Hornblore.

Even as an 18-year-old midshipman, I'd often heard the word bloodthirst in it, of course.

I'd read of the blind hatred that was said to seas on fighting men in crisis.

But, well, I don't suppose I'd really quite believe in it.

I also thought that a mild young man, I think, country-bred, not long at sea.

So it was something of a shock to me to find that I could have this feeling too,

that at least on one occasion long ago, the story of this unexpected piece of self-discovery

began quietly enough, just off the coast of Spain, less than a hundred miles from my own,

which is portable to port.

Mr. Roth, call up side boys and marine guard, all honest to a captain who's an ally.

And pass the word to Captain Peru.

You'll probably want to be at the gangway.

Mr. Hornblore, make the Spanish captain welcome to speak French.

Ask him to come below for a class of wine.

Captain Peru, sir, I've only got school friends.

I know, I know, but I can already read the stuff, some of it.

Well, I'll try, sir.

Very good.

Well, now, it's in French, here, read it Hornblore.

Yes, sir.

Well, it's mostly compliment, for dressed by his ex-excellency, the Duke of Belquitte,

to the most gallant ship captains are Edward Pallue, Knight of the Bar, and so on, and so on.

But well, sir, the real number of it seems to be that Spain

is now neutral, no longer at war with France.

And that's it, yes, must enforce her right.

It says, sir, that we have been at the anchor here 24 hours,

and that if we, and you're leaving us at the lunch,

as we know, we beat his ally, our fate for a friend,

by each street, you go on.

Yes, sir.

Six hours from now, sir, if we are still within range of the shore batteries,

they will have orders to fire on us.

For gall of it, I will not you, Hornblore.

Huh?

You tell this fellow.

No, never mind.

I must let him see he's made me angry.

Mr. Hornblore, sir.

Tell Mr. Chet to see him over the side with all the others.

Side boys, host and pipes, drummers?

Yes, sir.

Yes.

Everything will muster.

Then I'll go below and do my swearing.

Tell Mr. Echoes, I want to be under way within the hour.

Yes, sir.

Colonel impudence.

It was.

It was almost funny.

I poured out complimentary farewells for the death of my ability.

And while I was doing it, the two captains stiffly exchanged bows

of every phrase, hats across, drummers concerned.

But Captain Beliu was as good as his word, or even better.

The cable was hope short in less than an hour,

and as we slowly got underway, I stood in the waste with Mr. Wolf.

I stood in the waste with Mr. Wales, our carpenter.

Looking across at the distant white town, which would soon fade.

Two long, sharp cows had emerged from the inner bay

and were pointing towards the end of that book.

They were a sort of ship I'd never seen in my whole life.

At least outside my history books in school.

I'm Mr. Wales, what are they?

Gary and Mr. Hornblore.

Gallows, but like ancient Roman firings, is that it?

That's it.

A man by a slave.

Trade ties to the ancient world, and yet here,

beside modern cars, like ours.

Oh, this is something to see, all right.

How many does Spanish have in commission?

It's a Wales.

But no.

There are.

A dozen, I would say.

Four men to the Oral and fifty Orals.

That means 200 gallows' lanes per ship.

Oh, no, a lot to lose.

Mercy, we're getting it.

They're applying.

I thought it's good news.

Yes, I think I'll run next.

Please shut the desolute.

Hornblore, I will wait you.

The next time we hear those guns from shore,

they'll be firing the real thing.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

Lieutenant Ross was quite right in there, probably.

The tide of war was turning against England.

The nation-alformation was retiring from the contest against the tyrant bonapart.

And in the weeks that followed, it looked as if we would soon stand almost alone against the world.

I do not like the look of it, Mr. Chad.

Don't like it one little bit.

The current is quite strong, sir.

And what pain prevailing winds are out of blowing in the same direction.

And our grain slips.

Fond it all.

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That's all we need to walk this up to the mow.

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Give me that dust, Mr. Chad.

Yes, I...

I think I can barely detect it.

Take the glass, Mr. Chad.

Horizon is extremely hazy, but...

Tell me if I see no right.

And let's find very much mistaken.

It's our friends from Kediz.

Kediz, sir?

I don't quite follow.

The gall is man.

The Spanish gall is.

Look carefully now.

Can't you make out the rise and fall of those damnable arms?

Yes, sir.

By hidden, that's exactly what they are.

The gall is.

And sir, they're heading straight for us, or I have a blind man?

Quick now.

I want you on the court to take, Mr. Chad.

We longed the men, ridders along folks.

Cut.

Our call has to call immediately, sir.

Apparently, the gall is intentional.

Mr. Fallafon, the merchant ship, lying farthest behind in the convoy.

Three grain ships lay within half a mile of us,

and might be covered by our gunfire.

But the others could expect no such prediction.

And a pair of gall is sped toward these, looking like ghosts.

Sinister ghost, the long dead cool pizman, just as his.

A large boat has settled in the Chad Isar.

Mr. Seum is welcome out the cutter.

Mr. Mason, the long boat.

I want six pound of cutter and eight lard is of both boats.

Oh, I'm drafting eyes, of course.

Yes, sir.

They're already equipped.

Mr. Hongard, huh?

You and a check.

All personal arms.

But make sure each hand has pistol and cuffliss.

And he goes over time.

Oh, I thought they have the jolly boat.

It was going to, sir.

That's my special shot.

Oh, no.

Your jolly boat attacked one of those war galley's harbor.

A twill put in the show with a crew of six.

Don't maybe laugh.

Oh, sir.

We could just pull to one of the grain, convoy seven,

and reinforce her crew against the attack.

Well, yes.

Possibly, a captain's a loser.

What do you think of the young man's proposal?

He says he and his crew might be required by one of the convoyers.

Excellent.

Don't bring our other men.

Be quick, sir.

I know.

All right.

All right, Mr. Hongard.

Be about it, then.

Make for anyone of our ships that they need help.

I'll put your men aboard her.

I know.

But I don't waste any more time with talk of jolly boat connection.

Yes.

Thank you, sir.

Jackson, under her.

Oh, six of which is ready, Mr. Hongard.

They'll be holier for the devi-tenia.

Good.

Got pistol and gotliss.

I, sir.

And swing out the jolly boat.

You're 18 to attack them.

Do you worship their cell?

Oh, man.

Well, we...

We just might want to.

Jackson, if that is the chance, can I?

Are you willing?

And the others too.

Really?

I don't want to have a crack in them this self.

So it is all six of us.

Don't worry about it.

It's a good, good, then.

We'll...

But we'll see.

It's quite true, as Jackson said.

Every man of the six in my crew was glaring in hostility at the two war gallows.

As we pulled away from the indefatigable.

That's for myself.

Had never in my life felt the sudden, violent, personal hate that shook me now.

Along both in the cutter, both much larger than our little craft,

had a good start on us and made far-tired way.

We lagged behind them.

I found myself clutching the tiller and leaning forward in my eagerness to be equipped somehow with this...

Weird enemy.

Just you look at them galleys or blades fly.

The way they come sweeping down is something...

The rice that they dip.

There are the be time there to aboard a grain ship if you would be here.

I think you're right.

I'm going to pull the tiller over.

We'll follow the cutter.

For better or for worse.

Sir!

Well, Hunter?

I can see Mr. Sears in the cutter.

Give it all to us, sir.

She's budgeted as six pounder of the gallows.

She's under fire?

I wonder.

Much too great a range for that six pounder, popcorn and bread.

All the same.

I'm glad to see she's ready.

She's here.

Sir!

Look there.

What is it?

There's the other galleys.

Biggest life.

Diving right in between.

And two merchant ships.

But now a cutter's in there.

Very powerful, man.

Full!

We've got to get out there and help.

Full real lives!

I tell you, full!

We're gaining on the cutter, Mr. Ohmdar.

She's fired.

They haven't fired.

They're straight up the gallows, Bob.

Those are no good.

It's just spinters, see?

They still look good for the cutter, sir.

The gallows are quickening now.

And the galleys...

The galleys coming on to ram her.

It's like the creeps of the...

The...

The psalamis or something like that.

Bob!

The gallows!

The gallows!

The gallows!

The gallows!

The gallows!

The gallows!

The gallows!

The gallows!

The gallows!

The gallows!

The gallows!

Phew!

It was close.

We just missed our own cutter, sir.

And now we have passed it.

Shall we turn about, and she's going to ram the cutter?

I love it.

Why, the only thing they've achieved the cutter, right into?

And Mr. Sohne's was standing up in the stern, each, when she struck.

Yes.

I can't even see him, no?

It was a chilling sight.

One moment before, a lieutenant's film was looking straight at the target.

looking straight at the death which cleave towards him through the blue water.

And now, no trace of him or half his men.

A few men clung to the severed cutters stern parts.

But as the Spanish galleys starboarded or swept by us,

just clearing our sand, our own ores,

she wrote them down relentlessly and cast over their bobbing heads.

Give away forth! Give away!

Use your cultural Jackson, use it now.

We're going aboard that devil ship.

Jackson yelled an oath in reply and hurled our grappling hook on its long line.

It caught in the flooded gilt rail of the galleys quarter,

just before he swept out of our reach.

I was wild at rage and horror now.

Somehow we must avenge that cutter's crew.

Our own men have been slaughtered by this ghost out of the past.

I already loathe for our brutal slave labor

but the cutter's fatal at the last storm.

I can't hold this, sir.

You feel that pull?

Blinds cut my ends off.

Take a turn round the cleat, don't be a fool.

We've got to hold on to our Jackson.

She's passed down the cleat,

while swelled like we'd harpoon the whale, ain't it sir?

Look, like this is, they've seen us.

There's a standing running out on her blue.

He cut a knife to cut our lives.

Well then, shoot him, hunter.

Good shot under!

He fell right out of sight below the rail.

Look, man, the odds are heavy against this,

but we've got a good chance to climb aboard.

Are you for it?

We'll only step high.

I, I, I, I, I, I.

Good last.

All right, pull up in there.

You, Davis, you cross and give Jackson a hand of the line.

Hold us up in the closer to our stern.

They were as fighting mad as I.

All of us shouting at each other, shaking with fury and excitement,

no?

It was them that that word I'd read came back to me.

Flared in my mind like fire.

Blood first to this.

Well, finally, I knew what that word meant.

I was insane with it.

Them four or five swore their faces appeared above the gallows

gilded stern, and muskets pointed down into the trolley boat.

I test those eyes and fire.

Them standing haze during the other slight white quickly, sir.

Cars in sneer conscious.

Reload.

Watch out, Mr. Honglow.

So much push the muskets down through the window

and they're off to cabin up there.

You got that knife, I'm sure.

I'm heading for that broken cabin window in the stern.

Now, bring them in off for me one at a time.

Hi, I, sir.

I flung myself at the gravitational line.

My legs grazed toward it as the line sagged,

but my arms finally carried me upwards.

I swung up my feet, kicked out what remained

of the shaffered window and pulled myself through.

I came down on the cabin deck with a thud,

and peered about me in the dim cabin.

The Spaniards all day through the window lay there dead.

I was alone.

If it even jumps there, only me.

We all alone in here, sir.

Don't talk so loud.

The others coming, Jackson.

And his next.

They'll all be here, sir.

They'll zip cars in.

We can't wait for them now.

But, sir, here they commotion up above.

Look, now, speed's the important thing, Jackson.

Now, come along. Here's the cabin door.

Find the officers first, Jackson.

Got your cutler's ready?

Hi, Isaac.

Look, there's their two big guns up for it, yes.

And three or four men on the capsule.

Yes, but there'll be more on the poop just above us.

And you need it.

And we need it.

But there's more.

Look behind you.

More Spaniards from the capsule.

They got their swords out too.

More Spaniards.

They've missed a chair and some hands out.

They're coming over side.

I'm very sorry that, but, well, by the burdens, we didn't, well, we didn't follow instructions.

You see, sir, but the admiral will be pleased.

All the same, Mr. Honda.

And now that we've lost poor Mr. Sohms in that accident with a cutter,

I'd rather you shall need another watchkeeping officer.

I have it in mind to give you an order as acting lieutenant, young man.

Acting lieutenant, sir.

Sir, I just lost my head.

I think I bought it the gall in a kind of fit of, oh, I don't know, insanity, perhaps.

It might be well if more young officers lost their heads in that way than,

but, sir, I mean, I had it.

I wouldn't like to make false pretenses, sir.

And now I'm on it for enough.

All right.

I'm almost the same to that blind page, and I said, I must be honest, I am.

Never question the lucky things that hadn't you, Mr. Honda.

You'll learn more moderation in good time, unfortunately.

Thank you, sir.

I'm on it for you.

Horatio Hornblower, starring Michael Redgrave, is based on the novels by CS Farrisker.

Music composed and conducted by Sydney Torch.

Produced by Harry Allan Towers.