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Bookmark this pageCaptain Blood (1935)
Director: Michael Curtiz
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From Time Out Film Guide
The movie that launched both Flynn and the '30s cycle of swashbucklers. Conceived by Warner Brothers as a rival to MGM's Mutiny on the Bounty, it's a straightforward adaptation of Sabatini's adventure novel about a young doctor who starts as a deportee, succeeds as a pirate, and winds up as Governor of Jamaica, with Olivia de Havilland on his arm. Less florid sword-play than in later movies, but the formula is all there.Author: RG
Cast & crew
Director: Michael Curtiz
Producer: Harry Joe Brown, Gordon Hollingshead
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill, Ross Alexander, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson, Robert Barrat full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 118 mins
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