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) A second collection, "The Fortunes of Captain Blood" was published in 1936, consisting of six new stories, and one final story, "The Remedy", which takes place almost immediately after Blood's trial before Judge Jeffreys and in which Peter Blood is not the primary character but is prominently figured, was included in Sabatini's collection of short stories "Turbulent Tales", published in 1946. The book was especially popular in Russia. Several Russian authors wrote moderately popular sequels, such as "Children of Captain Blood" by Tatyana Vinogradova, and "Captain Blood: His Iliad" by Mikhail Popov. The bitter aftermath of the Monmouth Rebellion also