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The Child in Time
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The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's...
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Of the Farm
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Of the Farm recounts Joey Robinson's visit to the farm where he grew up and where his mother now...
Ghostly Tales: Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age
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This collection of tales will transport you to a time when staircases creaked in old manor houses,...
Arne & Carlos Knitting Scandinavian Style: Socks, Sweaters, Mittens, Hats, Pillows, Blankets and More!
Arne Nerjordet and Carlos Zachrison
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Arne & Carlos derived the inspiration for this book from numerous Setesdal patterns. Many were found...
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The Ice House (The Honours #2)
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War doesn't end. It sleeps. Delphine Venner is an old woman now. She is old, but she remembers...
David McK (3372 KP) rated Hornblower: The Even Chance (1998) in Movies
Aug 15, 2021 (Updated Aug 15, 2021)
Ant, therein, I found, lies my biggest problem with the film: Ioan Gruffudd (back before Hollywood came calling - he was Mr Fantastic from the original Fantastic Four movies, remember) is simply too old for the part!
That's not to say that he doesn't give it his all, or even manage to fully inhabit the role: just that, in this one at least, I couldn't get over the fact that Midshipmen were only supposed to be in their very early teens (11, 12, thereabouts), and yet here we have an actor in his mid 20s (at the time of recording) playing a 17 year old - and even 17, to me, seems too old to be a Midshipman during the period portrayed.