Captain Blood (1935 film) was $1,242,000. The lead role was originally offered to Robert Donat, who had starred in the successful 1934 film "The Count of Monte Cristo". The asthmatic Donat turned down the role, concerned that the action sequences would be too strenuous for him. A series of screen tests with various actors led to an unknown Australian actor named Errol Flynn. In January 1935, Warner Bros. signed the young actor and brought him to Hollywood after seeing him in a British B picture "Murder at Monte Carlo". For the female lead role, Jean Muir was originally picked to play opposite Donat, but
Captain Blood (novel) as "Tales of the Brethren of the Main", published from December 1920 to March 1921, and reprinted in "Adventure Magazine" from January to May 1921, with a novella "Captain Blood's Dilemma", published in "Premier Magazine" in April 1921 (and "Adventure Magazine" in October 1921). The "Odyssey"-like story arc of these tales was then woven by Sabatini into a continuous narrative in novel form, published as "Captain Blood: His Odyssey" in 1922. 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