Warner Bros released Captain Blood on December 28, 1935. Michael Curtiz directed the film starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Lionel Atwill.
‘Captain Blood’ Movie Summary
When the English doctor Peter Blood is wrongly sentenced to slavery to the Caribbean, he amuses himself with insults at Arabella Bishop. She’s the daughter of the brutal plantation owner on whose land Blood and the other slaves toil. Once he escapes, he forms an alliance with the Machiavellian French buccaneer Captain Levasseur to exact his revenge against the Crown.
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Warner Bros released Captain Blood on December 28, 1935. Michael Curtiz directed the film starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Lionel Atwill.
Nice podcast. Have you seen the 1976 movie Swashbuckler? Seems like something that would’ve been on the HBO loop. Might be a good LTMR. Also Michael Curtiz isn’t pronounced Curtis, it’s pronounced Curteez. He directed many great films including Casablanca, Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Mildred Pierce.
You could make a 10 hour blooper reel off my name mispronunciations! I’m surprised I don’t get more corrections!! Thanks though.
I feel like I have seen Swashbuckler, but it’s been so long I couldn’t tell you anything about it. Have you seen it recently? Does it hold up?
“Swashbuckler” starred post-Quint Robert Shaw and I did see it but other than that I can’t remember much except that it was rather a tongue in cheek oddity at the time. As Shaw was so memorable in other flicks, I’d say my lack of a fond impression is a good indicator of the movie’s quality. Shaw did appear in a really good movie in 1976 though – “Robin and Marian” – also starring Audrey Hepburn, Sean Connery, Richard Harris, et al. I have no idea why more people aren’t aware of this one. It’s a gem.
Rafael Sabatini was one of the most popular and prolific writers of historical fiction and is still very much worth reading. The movie “Captain Blood” is based on his novel, but the novel itself was based on the true-life biographical account of a man who was sold into slavery, fell in with pirates, and eventually managed to return to the British Isles. Sabatini is considered to have been pretty good at getting the historical detail right.
I like both the novel and movie of “Captain Blood” but I’m a bigger fan of Sabatini’s “The Sea Hawk”, which was also made into a Flynn swashbuckler. Unfortunately, though “Captain Blood” got a good adaptation, the 1940 version of “The Sea Hawk” had little to do with the novel outside of the title. It completely skips the Moorish/English cultural clash which makes the book interesting. There is a more accurate silent version from 1924, but I find silent films hard to watch.
Captain Blood: The History Behind The Novel
http://www.cindyvallar.com/captainbloodhistory.html