Sentence examples for C. S. Forester from inspiring English sources
When C. S. Forester wanted to stop writing his Horatio Hornblower series, Mr. Cameron inspired him to keep it going.
He was scheduled to direct another — "The African Queen," based on the novel by C. S. Forester — as soon as he had completed "The Red Badge of Courage" for M-G-M.
Just inside the window, three titles offered a progression in conspiracy theory: "The Good Shepherd" by C. S. Forester; "Who's Watching the Spies?" by Hans Born, Loch K. Johnson, and Ian Leigh; and "Who's Watching You?" by Mick Farren and John Gibb.
Drawing on a C. S. Forester novel that had been knocking around the studios since the '30s, Huston cast Bogart as Charlie Allnut, the grease-stained, unshaven captain of the African Queen, a small steam launch plying the river trade of German East Africa in 1914.
In "The Duel," the first film of a four-part series, the seafaring is none too rollicking for C. S. Forester's famed midshipman (Ioan Gruffud) as he sets sail with the Royal Navy.
There is Bernard Cornwell's multivolume series about Richard Sharpe, the British soldier who works his way up the ranks, for example, and enough naval novels set during this period to fill a harbor: C. S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower books and Patrick O'Brian's 20-volume Aubrey-Maturin saga, for starters.
But editorial fiat couldn't change the thinking of a generation that metaphorically pushed the boat out, or waited for their ship to come in; that caught the tide or sailed against the wind; that grew up with Captain Marryat, C S Forester and Joseph Conrad.
"I'm a professional forester," he said.
