Captain Blood



Captain Blood is a 1935 swashbuckling film made by First National Pictures and Warner Brothers. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Harry Joe Brown and Gordon Hollingshead with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer. The screenplay, written by Casey Robinson, is based on the novel of the same name by Rafael Sabatini. It features a stirring musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Some of the impressive sea-battle footage was taken from The Sea Hawk (1924) (not to be confused with Flynn's 1940 film of the same name, though some of the footage was also reused in the initial sea battle scene).

The film stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland with Lionel Atwill and Basil Rathbone. It was the first of eight films co-starring De Havilland and Flynn, and in 1938, the two would be re-united with Rathbone in The Adventures of Robin Hood.

Cast

 * Errol Flynn as Peter Blood
 * Olivia de Havilland as Arabella Bishop
 * Lionel Atwill as Colonel Bishop
 * Basil Rathbone as Levasseur
 * Ross Alexander as Jeremy Pitt, Blood's friend and navigator
 * Guy Kibbee as Hagthorpe, another crewman
 * Henry Stephenson as Lord Willoughby
 * Robert Barrat as Wolverstone
 * Hobart Cavanaugh as Dr. Bronson
 * Donald Meek as Dr. Whacker
 * Jessie Ralph as Mrs. Barlow
 * Forrester Harvey as Honesty Nuttall