Captain Blood (1924 film) on the verge of taking over the historic Vitagraph Company. When Warners decided to remake "Captain Blood" in 1935 with Errol Flynn, they would have owned the screen rights to the Sabatini novel which came as part of the Vitagraph buyout. Captain Blood (1924 film) Captain Blood is a 1924 American silent historical adventure film produced and distributed by The Vitagraph Company of America. The film is based on the novel, "Captain Blood, His Odyssey", by Rafael Sabatini, and was directed by David Smith, brother of Vitagraph founder Albert E. Smith. Early silent film hero J. Warren Kerrigan stars along
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