Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.
Acting
Ioan Gruffudd's barely-contained horror steals every scene.
Production
Ship-to-shore chaos built on actual period detail.
Writing
Moncoutant's aristocratic meltdown is chef's kiss.
Director
Andrew Grieve
Ioan Gruffudd
Horatio Hornblower
Robert Lindsay
Sir Edward Pellew
Antony Sher
Colonel Moncoutant
John Shrapnel
General Charette
Samuel West
Major Edrington
Peter Vaughan
Admiral Lord Hood
Jean Badin
Faure
Jamie Bamber
Archie Kennedy
Paul Copley
Mathews
Jonathan Coy
Lieutenant Bracegirdle
Sean Gilder
Styles
Estelle Skornik
Mariette
Simon Sherlock
Oldroyd
Ian Lindsay
Collins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Frogs and Lobsters' nickname comes from British slang: French soldiers were 'frogs,' redcoats were 'lobsters.' The title alone tells you this alliance is doomed.
Antony Sher based Moncoutant's aristocratic monstrousness on historical accounts of émigré delusion — men who fled France still believed peasants adored them. The quill scene? Pure history.
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