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) 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