Word: cadiz
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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...triumph, for to have dented the news with a non-disaster item for so prolonged a time during the Watergate hearings was a tough task. Other non-unique stories that echoed the past passed with barely a ripple of eyebrows--Elizabeth Taylor divorced Richard Burton, Atlantis was rediscovered off Cadiz, Spain. Other biographies of Monroe had been done before and passed out of print without a whimper, and many questioned what Mailer had brought to the task that gave it such notoriety...
...must come before the welfare of the Empire. Her wiles prove so alluring that Nelson opts for permanent shore leave at his country estate in Surrey. But then Nelson's Flag Captain Hardy (Michael Jayston) pops up to press Nelson back into service. Villeneuve must be engaged at Cadiz, Hardy splutters, else Britain will be in great peril...
...dying request was not honored; Lady Hamilton perishes in poverty in Calais. Scenes of her final days would have been a good deal more dramatic than the domestic wrangling and political pettifogging that make up most of the film. Producer Hal Wallis thriftily restages the battle of Cadiz largely by using footage from some old swashbuckler like Captain Horatio Hornblower. Lord Nelson meets his end during a bombardment of old film clips...