[Robert A Cook PE]

True.

The Hornblower movies (made for TV a few years back) were also "accurate enough" so that the movie (dialog, sets, images, animation, and camera work) never got in the way of the story.

My problem with the Hornblower movies was that they warped the script where it wasn't needed.

But, having read M&C books, the movie does better than the book.

[John H K]

Well, the movie plot is fundamentally silly (The French building a copy of the U.S.S. Constitution, and the British ORDERING an old captured French 28, the Surprise, to CHASE a 44.)

The movie combined the first book with the Far Side of the World, of course, but it was thought that the "Bad Guys" being American, as it was in Far Side of the World, wouldn't be good box office and the French would be better :-).

Also, if they make sequels, by the time you're up to the War of 1812 the Napoleonic Wars are almost over.