Horatio Hornblower - Guerilla Action

0:00Call all hands, big to quarters. Turn up the guard, stand by this turban battery. One broadside in order to please get in bush. Point of them target. Blinch touch ready. Fire eyes more, Heidi! Fire! Presenting Michael Redgrave at CS Foresters in dominant land of the sea, Horatio Hornblower.

1:31You've been asked for so many years, I can still look back on that period. Even after so many years, I can still look back on that period of my life with pride and satisfaction. I've been given free days in which to do as much damage as possible before rendezvous during with the flagship and the Caligula, and in 24 hours I'd captured a French brig laden with military supplies, destroyed the heavy batteries at Lancer, and taken seven small grafts, and cut out and taken a French ship under the guns of the port thorn-drares batteries. The coast was in confusion, and I was at least a thousand pounds of Richard in prize money. But I hope to do much more yet in the remaining time.

2:32The question was, how? You said for me, sir? Brown. Can you swim, Brown? Swim? Well, I guess. Good, bro. I want a crew for the barge. Everyone a good swimmer and every man of volunteer. Ah, he's a bit of all volunteer. I'm Rocky Brown. This is for dangerous service. I want true volunteers now to be a press guy. Why? Are you going, sir? Yes. It'll be hard to pick them, sir. They're all willing to go. Well, I'll leave it to you. Yes, you are cutless to each man, and a packet of combustible. Cut, cut, cut. Come what, sir? Some vegetables, flint and steel. Couple of portfires, oily rags, and a bit of slowmatch. All in an oil skin packet. And the land yet to carry them if we swim. Yes, get your crew ready immediately. Ah, yes, sir. Right there, yes, sir. You have a plan in mind, sir? Yes, Mr. Bush. I'm going ashore to burn that coaster over there. Over there. Could I take the cruiser? I'll not allow volunteers to go on a mission if I can't lead them. But if I call for volunteers. The wasting time, Mr. Bush. I can't accept it off it.

3:32I should take my barge. The long boat and long tour too much water. And like this, Mr. Bush, no rescue part is. If we're lost, we're lost. I'll not have you wasting valuable lives in rescue attempts. Till I get to that in writing. No, need to understand. I understand, but... All right. Well, heat the ship, too. Stand off and on, and wait for us. ROCK MUSIC A large full day, too, when I set beside Brown, while we danced lightly over the blue Mediterranean. I set a course to reach the shore, a little ahead of the Brown sail, which was just showing over the strip of coast. He crossed the line of sluggish breakers and darted in toward the Golden Beach. A moment later, the boat balked, slid over sand, moved a few yards more, And then ground it over with him and run the boat up the beach We got everything cutless as fire packets right steadily up the beach don't use too much energy

4:34We may have a long swim make for that low bank of single at the head of the beach It's a vineyard on the other side look there's a sail not a quarter of a mile away beyond the vineyard It's only an old man certain two women there are you or something yes where I'll ignore them go on man The water was his warmers milk But the coaster was a 150 yards away and I saw dangling from my naked waist hampered me and already seemed heavy as lead The men now ever said strongly ahead and by the time we near the coaster I was a bad last The men scrambled up into the low waist of the vessel and then waited to help me aboard It must have looked a strange sight make it but arm Yet in the tenseness of the moment our nakedness was forgotten

5:37I walked off towards the little group of men and women trying to recollect my few words of French Obsin there's a dinghy of a side droid in and I loaded them into it Oh, that's all Aren't they don't love that? Don't say boo down about those you will play You open up the doors of my catfish in it of sea Yeah, I thought he'd understand that Thank you Brian into the boat with all of them and casted a drift Well, that's them settles Look, they'll make him for the two parts. It's wonderful mind them set the ship on fire take three men below and see what you can do there Hopson you and the others get some of those deck blanks up Oh He's all in bells and gradient sex There's no been some bells and rip the sex he's burning like powder sir stand by to abandon ship

6:39All persons right over you go we can go back Hey In the lagoon I'll dive in and get your shirt sir We'll leave our clothes a few clothes for a ship and a valuable cargo is a good extension Would you like old men's trousers? Oster them off be damned to him. Oh come along back to the vineyard all in behind me man It's so good gumbling we did the job naked and we'll go back naked up into the vineyard with you now All right His horseman riding across the vineyard towards us, sir. He's got a new uniform with a cocktail Give me a hand. Let me see That's what I've burned apart Jean-Dan you done an anti-men

7:40He's gotta pick a wacer. He's never mind him man back to the beach What's the devil that is naked as the devil born for sure the captain isn't coming aboard and taking the salute like that Mr. Jared when the captain comes aboard he'll be received as the captain dressed or unressed Tell the side boys on the marines that if I see one of them with the suspicion of a smile in his face Or have him flunked high eyes up for the purposes of receiving in my board kept in hall blower is in full dress Mr. Jared. Yes, Mr. Bush of course, sir. I can see that now Successful venture I hope so very soon. Thank you Bush. There's nothing on to all the kids. I hope so I think whatever Mr. Bush Please put the ship away

8:49Oh Only two hours past the door and it was stifling heart already Easily breeze seemed not to have cooled at all by its passage of nearly 400 miles across the Mediterranean from Italy The land slipping by along the labyrinth seemed to devoid of all life Yet along the base of those lofty gray green hills ran the most important high road in Catalonia The road connecting Barcelona with France And as I talked again with Spanish officers would come out to my ship at dawn in a fishing boat I felt that this new day promised to be as productive as the previous two You know certain Colonel Villena that this army of general Pino's were marched along this very road They must kept in 10,000 of them Pino's and Lekki's division of the Italian army

9:52It was at Tordel that I lost my own regiment Their army cut us to pieces and I only escaped myself by riding into my horse dropped under me But there is more than the loss of my regiment to avenge serve the Italians have burned every village in the operands Every road is lined with gallows and upon every gallows is a Spanish corpse Horrible Well sir, we must see what we can do Mr. Bush, we have an action if you please. I'll have the guns loaded and run out too Aye aye sir, captain, train your glass there Where? He's not that respectful far up on the hill a horseman Believe it is and riding towards us There's a sort of moving smudge behind him As expected to be the advanced guard of the army You can see an occasional sparkle and flash as the sun catches their equipment I can edgion quite close to here if necessary You can see them quite plainly now they are cavalry riding with drawn seabirds They fear an ambush but I do not know where an opposition is likely to come from We must see if we can provide some Colonel

10:53What's that long line of white dots beyond the cavalry? Looks like a long caterpillar with white legs all moving together He chees in a way captain It is the white breaches of a column of infantry On the half turn Well look sir, they're waving their heads to us Very friendly, the whole thing I'll let you out, she will be trotted I doubt if they've ever encountered a ship before or being cannonated from the scene Their officers are used to opposing armies but they have no experience of a ship's broadside They'll probably regard us as a welcome break and I'm not in as much Mr. General, train the guns on the road and only five when I give you the signal Aye sir Fire as you will, Mr. General And again And again Give it some lights Water this night Deeper water sir, we can move further in

11:55They don't like it, they don't like it, the next column is voting Starboard appointment, Mr. General Mr. General, I'd load with grape shot Aye sir, see they have jammed The column's coming up, I'm preventing the others from getting away They're struggling with each other It's a murder but I fear it must be done Deadgoat, shaman Deadgoat, take your eyes on him Seven And I'd like to go about cease fire We must run out past that helge and come back again Mr. Bush They've done considerable damage I think Yes sir, just look at the road, it's littered with them And the hillside's covered with men trying to get away And officers will never round them up Ah, there's a battery of artillery at the end of the next column, is it? Yes, nine pound of field pieces The only stuff against our broadside Up by him, they're going to try Look at this officer, galloping down the line, he's ordering the guns into action Yeah, where should Mr. Bush will stand in and give them a sporting target?

12:55Aye aye sir Nine pounders Reserve your fire for the battered him Mr. Jar Head in Now Jab the s**t open It's going right back into our eyes Caught you saying, the magnum percent Puffs the guns are smashed Their crews are killed and scattered Not all, that officer's a galleon man He's trying to get one gun working, he's Yeah, he's too late Our speed is taking us out of range Here's our second division of infantry, sir Look at him, scatting up the hillside, even before we get to him Yes, don't fire us, Mr. Jarod It's as damaging to an army to be scattered and demoralized as to be killed Oh, I doubt if our men will understand that Hmm Ah, do you see that group of horsemen above the road there? Gold trappings and plumes The staff of the army, I'll swear Mr. Jarod, we will give a little attention to that group up there if you please Ah, sir, there's a force in there out of range, you're done to care

14:03Ah, not a man left in the saddle, wonderful, so wonderful I hope General Pino himself was amongst them, I hope he was killed No, no, I hope he was crippled Hurt, terribly hurt, I hope Spare us your blood says to come and scour me I have no love for this sort of warfare and take no delight in causing suffering I do it because I must I prefer an action where there's danger on both sides My word, look at this sir, we're not as safe as all that It's a musket ball embedded in the raven harvick depth Their fire is reaching us You see Colonel? Hmm, Colonel seems to have more urgent business on the other side of the corner deck Thank you, Mr. Bush, I shall be glad when we reach the rear of the column This slaughter seconds me Ah, but we're killing the enemy sir, that's all I care about Hello, what's this sir? Like each strange Those carts with four horses to them Must be ammunition, guess on us Mr. Gerard, you'll have target practice, single guns on them Let them fire broad sides and they'll miss on purpose

15:04Fire on rotation, number one gun, fire Fire As the Sutherland drifted slowly along the shore A gun spoke out one by one, a hurrying a half full of great shot under the road It was with sorrow almost demanding to anguish But I watched horses and mules go down before that deadly fire But I maintained a cold, impassive face throughout A few of the mules managed to leap the bank out of the road And scramble up the hillside, scattering their loads as they went And then as we passed the last of the ammunition train and came to a new line of carts I observed a man standing up in one of the carts and frantically waiting for white hankers Which is how they want a surrender sir Ridiculous, he must know that no surrender could be put into effect, he must take his chance

16:04Let's see doing that He seems to be trying to pick something up for the floor of the guard He tried to lift him Good heavens, I've seen her He's fired, he's fired once It's a man he's holding up, a bandage man Those are the army ambulance vehicles full of second wounded from yesterday's battle with Vilena's regiment That officer must be a surgeon He has put the ship abutments to push, we will retrace our course and had us the main body again Aye, aye sir Stand by to go white Aye sir Hens to places Hens to places Oh, it's so easy on this texture We'd have to serve the coast hall and if we make three knots we'll be doing well Listen to the best we can then Take care, field guns training us from the road sir We've got three guns in the position sir Very well, we'll see what we can do Mr. Gerard, carry on with your target practice Aye sir In a way, Mr. Bush, this is a good thing Our crew is raw and there's a vast difference between shooting undisturbed and shooting under return fire See how they behave

17:06This fellow is a good gunner, that one was close That was closer sir Look at that hole in our capsule I should tickle It's all on sir Some of the casualties I think Yes, use your biochaser guns on the battery and they unsteady their gun layers Ash, thank you, target scene, if they can't reach the field gun sir Look at their soldiers, catching all over the hillside sir Yes, their officers are going to have a difficult time reassembling them and many will desert I understand that these Italian divisions deserve riddling They have no love for Bonaparte's cause Poor Hicks, the main top-calibre backstage part, it's a Sins and toughen up and splice that stain But we'll be in close range, presently sir What the devil is that? They're one of the ship's boys has been hit from the side of it Mr. Gerard, I'm going to put the helm down now Be ready to fire as the gun's bare Ah, sir

18:07Brown, she comes Why? They come as I run him sir Then I'll go to wait for it Had too much last time I expect Let them have it, lion The smoke's clearing Yes Oh, well then Mr. Gerard, there's not a gun left on the road Your men behaved like veterans Fire the box, sir The water is shurling rapidly We'll send out to see again Maybe we've done all we can here Now the time we get in again, the remains of the army We'll have it drawn Aye, aye, sir Starward your helm How about it? Mr. Blazer You may secure your guns, Mr. Gerard Aye, sir This one, Mr. Gerard's gun Aye, sir Fire the Christmas tree days, three jails for the captain Mr. Erwin, tell him and just stop that nonsense, Mr. Bush Mr. Bush, I can't do the thing from beginning like a fool Mr. Langley, British officer does not pay for on the deck like a schoolboy

19:10A captain on the house, sir Sir Yes, oh yeah, the come room stood You may find that our casualty is nothing to cheer about Yes, begging your pardon, sir, but Tom Krebs has been killed Tom Krebs, I remember no man of that name Mr. Bush, shall we leave? Every way boxing champion of England is named Tom Krebs, isn't he? I believe you, sir That ain't all, sir There's Mrs. Siddons She's got the spinter in her Also to tell the truth, she's got a spinter where she won't be able to sit down, sir Squirrels something horrible when I pulled it out, she did some Mrs. Siddons, are you mad, man or am I? Tom Krebs and Mrs. Siddons, uh, two of the pigs belong into the Gadro Mace pigs What, are they our only casualties? Uh, Mr. Walsh, have you any casualties? Not among men, sir, but I'm afraid that Tom Krebs and Mrs. Siddons Thank you, Mr. Walsh, I already have a report on the condition of Krebs and Siddons Um, Mr. Bush, you may issue grub to all hands

20:35So Hornblower, starring Michael Redgrave, is based on the novels by C. S. Farrister Music composed and conducted by Siddney Torch, produced by Harry Allen Towers