Captain Blood (1935 film) Captain Blood (1935 film) Captain Blood is a 1935 American black-and-white swashbuckling pirate film from First National Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures, produced by Harry Joe Brown and Gordon Hollingshead (with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer), directed by Michael Curtiz, that stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Ross Alexander. The film is based on the 1922 novel "Captain Blood" by Rafael Sabatini, with a screenplay by Casey Robinson, and concerns an enslaved doctor and his fellow prisoners who escape their cruel island imprisonment and become pirates in the West Indies. An earlier 1924 silent film version
Captain Blood (novel) features prominently in Arthur Conan Doyle's novel "Micah Clarke" (1889). In the opening chapter of Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novel "The Club Dumas" (1993), two characters discuss their favourite novel by Sabatini; book dealer Lucas Corso declares his preference for "Captain Blood". Alan Moore's comic book series "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" incorporates many characters from classic books, including Peter Blood as a member of the Pirates' Conference in "The New Traveller's Almanac" (2002–2003). Captain Blood (novel) Captain Blood: His Odyssey is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922. Sabatini was a proponent of basing historical fiction as closely