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Jun 19, 2017 · Captain Blood is a pirate and his odyssey is one of real piratical pomp and circumstance that really shows why the pirates of the Caribbean were feared and famed. So, avast there, between decks. To lubbers disillusioned with the movies, turn ye to your books and smite the sounding furrows.
The Odyssey of Captain Blood (1996) by Vladimir Kosov, a fragment of the picture for the novel. The protagonist is the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, a fictional Irish physician who had had a wide-ranging career as a soldier and sailor (including a commission as a captain under the Dutch admiral De Ruyter) before settling down to practice ...
- Rafael Sabatini
- 1922
Captain Blood. (1935 film) 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 ...
Captain Blood: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone. After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.
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- Action, Adventure, History
- Michael Curtiz
- 1935-12-28
By Cindy Vallar. Background to the novel. The Monmouth Rebellion. Transport to the Caribbean. Escape from Barbados. Tortuga, Levasseur, and Maracaibo. Cartagena, Port Royal, and War. Peter Blood, bachelor of medicine and several other things besides, smoked a pipe and tended the geraniums boxed on the sill of his window above Water Lane in the ...
Captain Blood: His Odyssey is a work of historical fiction by Rafael Sabatini, published in 1922. Sabatini was a British Italian writer who produced fiction, history, and drama. Set during the 1680s, the narrative relates Peter Blood’s journey from country doctor in England to enslaved convict in Barbados to pirate captain in the Spanish Main ...
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Errol Flynn received his first star billing for Captain Blood (1935), alongside 19-year-old newcomer Olivia de Havilland as Arabella Bishop. The film also established star Basil Rathbone (The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939) as the cold-hearted Pirate Levasseur.