Captain Blood 1935

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 119 min

genre: adventure

theme: swashbuckler

director: Michael Curtiz

Score: 6 / 10

Captain Blood is a 1935 American black-and-white swashbuckling pirate 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.

Plot

In England in 1685, Irish doctor Peter Blood is summoned to aid Lord Gildoy, a wounded patron who participated in the Monmouth Rebellion. Arrested while performing his duties as a physician, he is convicted of treason against King James II and sentenced to death by the infamous Judge Jeffreys. By the whim of the king, upon his advisor Lord Sunderland's counsel, Blood and the surviving rebels are transported to the West Indies to be sold into slavery.

Cast

More details

author	Casey Robinson
contentLocation	Caribbean England Jamaica
director	Michael Curtiz
editor	George Amy
events	sea piracy
genre	adventure historical
keywords	abandoning his post arrest brethren of the coast brotherhood of the coast buccaneer capture dereliction of duty escape plan fly french colors french ensigns glorious revolution gout greet hide hippocratic oath his duties as a physician james ii of england kick out kicked out of england and fled to france kill king james ii lose man-of-war monmouth rebellion morning piracy port royal ransom royal navy sold into slavery summon survive the king time of war treason union jack west west indies william iii william iii of england wound
musicBy	Erich Wolfgang Korngold
nomination	Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
producer	Gordon Hollingshead Harry Joe Brown
productionCompany	Cosmopolitan Productions
publisher	Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
theme	swashbuckler