Captain Blood
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
- Basil Rathbone
- Chrispin Martin
- Colin Kenny
- David Torrence
- Donald Meek
- E. E. Clive
- Errol Flynn
- Forrester Harvey
- Frank McGlynn, Sr.
- Frank Puglia
- George Hassell
- Georges Renavent
- Guy Kibbee
- Halliwell Hobbes
- Harry Cording
- Henry Stephenson
- Hobart Cavanaugh
- Holmes Herbert
- Ivan Simpson
- J. Carrol Naish
- Jessie Ralph
- Leonard Mudie
- Lionel Atwill
- Louis Mercier
- Mary Forbes
- Murray Kinnell
- Olivia de Havilland
- Paul Panzer
- Pedro de Cordoba
- Reginald Barlow
- Robert Barrat
- Ross Alexander
- Vernon Steele
- Yola d'Avril