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Errol Flynn duels Basil Rathbone at the seashore.
Errol Flynn duels Basil Rathbone at the seashore.

Thumbnail for Captain Blood (1935) Captain Blood (1935)

Basics Critics:86Viewers:72Rusty:78
Category: Action/Adventure, DramaNotable as: Action/AdventureSub-Category: Black-and-white, Swashbuckler film, Adventure Film, Romance Film, Action Film, Action/AdventureMain subject: piracyNarrative location: Caribbean, England, JamaicaRuntime: 119 minutesLanguage: EnglishCountry: United StatesDirector: Michael CurtizScreenwriter: Casey RobinsonBased on: Captain BloodMusic: Erich Wolfgang KorngoldCinematography: Ernest Haller, Hal MohrStars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Ross Alexander, Lionel Atwill, Donald Meek, J. Carrol Naish, Paul Panzer, Georges Renavent Producer: Harry Joe Brown, Gordon HollingsheadStudio: Warner Bros.Award nominations: Academy Award for Best Director (Michael Curtiz)
Academy Award for Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Score, Adaptation or Treatment
Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing
Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (Casey Robinson)Award details: (details at IMDb)
Description

Captain Blood is a 1935 American swashbuckling film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Ross Alexander. The film was made by First National Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures and produced by Harry Joe Brown and Gordon Hollingshead, with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer. Based on the 1922 novel Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, with a screenplay by Casey Robinson, the film is about an enslaved doctor and his fellow prisoners who escape and become pirates on the open seas. Warner Bros. Pictures took a serious risk in pairing two relative unknown performers in the lead roles. Flynn's performance made him a major star and established him as the natural successor to Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. and a "symbol of an unvanquished man" during the Depression. The film also established de Havilland, in just her fourth film appearance, as a major star. Captain Blood was the first of eight films co-starring Flynn and de Havilland, and in 1938, the two would be re-united with Rathbone in The Adventures of Robin Hood. The film also features a stirring musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold.


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