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Television Reviews - "Horatio Hornblower"

episode #2 "Examination For Lieutenant" (UK/AUS)
"The Fireships" (US)

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AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower'

Storyline

*A film dramatisation of C.S. Forester's classic maritime adventurer.

The Indefatigable puts into Gibraltar where three survivors from a wrecked brig are rescued, one of whom is the legendary Captain Foster who Hornblower comes to admire.

Supplies are much reduced so Hornblower leads a mission to Algiers to replenish them. The crew finds itself quarantined when exposed to plague but Hornblower utilises the time to study for his pending Leiutenant's Examination.

Back in Gibraltar, Hornblower sits his exam but fails to impress his Commanding Officers until an alarm is raised when a Spanish attack looms...*

(*-* Review taken from DVD cover.)

Andrew Tiernan plays Bunting, a press-ganged sailor who's resentment towards the officers builds when the crew's already meagre rations become decreased even further. In "a moment of madness" he steals food from the hold of the ship and is punished by being made to "run the gauntlet" - a ritualized method of flogging used in the Royal Navy at the time. As a result of this severe punishment his rebelliousness grows and Horatio Hornblower does his best to subdue this behaviour for Bunting's own good. Finally however the troubled sailor takes his fate into his own hands, grimly reasoning that it is better to die by: "...the speed of the bullet than the slow agony of the rope". Afterwards Hornblower feels downcast for not being able to save the life of a man under his command.

Awards

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Andy's Character

The ill-fated Bunting

Andy's Content Rating

Another of Andy’s most well-received roles and a main character in this episode of a superlative British drama series – four stars.
4 Stars

(This rating helps to determine how much on-screen, on-air or on-stage time Andy has in this production ie. 1 star means that he appears in one or two scenes and 5 stars means that he has a lead role or is a main character.)

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Still Shots

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AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower'
AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' with Paul Copley AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' with Ioan Gruffud AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower'
AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' with Robert Lindsay AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' with RL & IG
AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower'
AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower'
AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower'
AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' with IG AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower'
AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower'
AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower'
AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' with IG AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower'
AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower' AT as Bunting in 'Hornblower'
Behind-The-Scenes Shots
Crewperson,Ioan Gruffudd, Rupert Holliday-Evans, soundman St. Clair Davis & AT AT & Ioan Gruffudd and two of the British lighting crew in bar of Yalta hotel
AT & plane which ferried cast & crew from Kiev to Yalta Jamie Bamber, Ioan Gruffudd, Simon Sherlock & AT
Andrew Tiernan (Bunting) at the hotel in Yalta Simon Sherlock (Oldroyd), Andrew Tiernan (Bunting) & Ioan Gruffudd (Hornblower)
Lighting crew person Dave with IG & AT AT, carpenters and a Russian extra as the Marine
Rupert Holliday-Evans & Ioan Gruffudd Ioan Gruffudd doing a rat impersonation!
Ioan Gruffudd giving the stunt rats an acting lesson! Ioan Gruffudd on the dock in Yalta
IG and production crew Neve Cunningham (Director of Photography) & IG during mealbreak
Ioan Gruffudd (Horatio Hornblower) in make-up chair Jamie Bamber, Ioan Gruffudd, Frank Boyce & AT at the hotel in Yalta
Jamie Bamber, Simon Sherlock & Ioan Gruffudd looking HUNGRY in Yalta! Jamie Bamber (Lt. Archie Kennedy) in the make-up chair
Lt. Kennedy gets tough! Simon Sherlock (Oldroyd) and view of Yalta from the hotel
Simon Sherlock & Frank Boyce happy to have found food! Midshipman Cleveland wishing he was back in old Blighty
Rupert Holliday-Evans and two production crew men Chris Barnes as Buntings friend Finch
Roger May as Lt. Chadd (ep. The Even Chance) Rupert Holliday-Evans (Steward) & Andrew Grieve (Director)
Frank Boyce (Mm. Cleveland) Three Russian extras
Andrew Grieve (Director) & The Grand Turk (The Indefatigable) The Indy!!
The beautiful Grand Turk (The Indefatigable) The Grand Turk and crew
Real life British ship Captain Sound crew
Andrew Benson (Producer) & production crew member Make-up artist & Dorian Healy (Mm. Simpson in The Even Chance)
Real life super sailor-woman! The all-important catering crew
Friendly British office staff members Russian extras outside hotel in Yalta
View from back of hotel in Yalta
View from back of hotel in Yalta

 

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