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Captain Blood

1935

Michael Curtiz

Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone ...

7.3

8,446

Adventure The quintessential swashbuckler. Irsih doctor Peter Blood is wrongly sentenced to deportation and slavery to the Caribbean. There he amuses himself with insults at DE Havilland. He plans an escape and now seeking vengeance forms an alliance with the French buccaneer Rathbone. However during their glorious piracy they capture DE Havilland and Flynn's feelings are betrayed when he challenges Rathbone over her.

	Media	Author	Review
		Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"The 25-year-old Errol Flynn has the smile and dash to shout "All right my hearties, follow me!" as he leaps from his pirate ship to an enemy vessel."
		Nick Schager Slant	"Errol Flynn’s wicked, wicked charm helps keep this high seas adventure afloat."
		Don Druker Chicago Reader	"Michael Curtiz, the most polished of Warner's studio technicians, starts Flynn off royally."
		Ian Nathan Empire	"Lavish pirate adventure that launched Errol Flynn onto 1930's screens and ensured that buckles would be swashed for a good few years to follow."
		Seattle Times	"So the ship models look like something from your bathtub; it's magnificent for an 80-year-old movie."
		Variety Staff Variety	"A big picture. It's a spectacle which will establish both Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Director Michael Curtiz hasn't spared the horses. It's a lavish, swashbuckling saga of the Spanish main."
		Andre Sennwald The New York Times	"With a spirited and criminally good-looking Australian named Errol Flynn playing the genteel buccaneer to the hilt, the photoplay recaptures the air of high romantic adventure which is so essential to the tale."

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