Cast
- Gregory Peck as Captain Horatio Hornblower, R.N.
- Virginia Mayo as Lady Barbara Wellesley
- Robert Beatty as First Lieutenant William Bush
- Terence Morgan as Second Lieutenant Gerard, an officer on the Lydia
- Moultrie Kelsall as Third Lieutenant Crystal, an officer on the Lydia
- James Kenney as Midshipman Longley
- James Robertson Justice as Seaman Quist, who helps Hornblower and Bush escape
- Denis O'Dea as Rear Admiral Sir Rodney 'Mucho Pomposo' Leighton
- Richard Hearne as Polwheal, Hornblower's steward
- Michael Dolan as Surgeon Gundarson
- Stanley Baker as Mr. Harrison, Hornblower's bosun
- Alec Mango as El Supremo / Don Julian Alvarado
- Christopher Lee as the Spanish captain of the Natividad
- Diane Cilento as the voice of Hornblower's wife Maria, reciting a letter written to him on her deathbed
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