Captain Blood (1935 film)

Captain Blood is a 1935 American blackandwhite swashbuckling film from First National Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, produced by Harry Joe Brown and Gordon Hollingshead with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer, directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Ross Alexander. The film is based on the 1922 novel Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, with a screenplay by Casey Robinson, and concerns an enslaved doctor and his fellow prisoners who escape their cruel island imprisonment and become pirates in the West Indies. An earlier 1924 silent film version of Captain Blood starred J. Warren Kerrigan as Peter Blood, the physicianturnedpirate in this Vitagraph production.

In 17thcentury England, an Irish doctor named Peter Blood Errol Flynn is summoned to aid Lord Gildoy, a wounded patron who had participated in the Monmouth Rebellion. Arrested while performing his duties as a physician, he is convicted of treason against the King and sentenced to death by the infamous Judge Jeffreys. By the whim of King James II, who sees an opportunity for profit, Blood and the surviving rebels are transported to the West Indies to be sold into slavery.In the faraway English colony of Port Royal, Blood is purchased by Arabella Bishop Olivia de Havilland, the beautiful niece of the local military commander Colonel Bishop Lionel Atwill. Attracted by Bloods rebellious nature, Arabella does her best to improve his situation by recommending him as the personal physician of the colonys governor, who suffers from painful gout. Outwardly resentful towards Arabella, yet silently appreciative for her efforts on his behalf, Blood nevertheless continues to hatch an escape plan for himself and his fellow slaves. The plan is almost uncovered when Bishop gets suspicious and has one of Bloods men flogged to make him talk. Later, Blood is spared a similar fate when a Spanish squadron attacks Port Royal. During the raid, Blood and his fellow slaves seize the Spanish ship from its drunken night watch, and then sail away to begin lives of piracy in the West Indies. ........

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