Captain Blood (1935 film)
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| Captain Blood | |
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 original film poster |
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| Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
| Produced by | Harry Joe Brown Gordon Hollingshead |
| Written by | Casey Robinson |
| Starring | Errol Flynn Olivia de Havilland Basil Rathbone |
| Music by | Erich Wolfgang Korngold |
| Cinematography | Ernest Haller Hal Mohr |
| Editing by | George Amy |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Running time | 119 min. |
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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, was based on the novel of the same name by Rafael Sabatini. It featured 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).
The film starred 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. Rathbone hated Flynn, and in the swordfighting scene, he intentionally scarred Flynn's arm, for life.
[edit] Plot
In seventeenth century England, Dr. Peter Blood (Errol Flynn) is convicted of treason against the King for aiding a wounded friend who had participated in the Monmouth Rebellion. He is sold into slavery, and purchased by the beautiful Arabella Bishop (Olivia de Havilland). Doctor Blood and his fellow slaves escape, steal a Spanish ship and begin a life of piracy.
[edit] Award nominations
The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and, despite not being nominated, Michael Curtiz received the second-greatest number of votes for Best Director, solely as a write-in candidate. Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Casey Robinson also failed to be nominated and also received substantially more votes for their work on this film than most of the official nominees.
