Captain Blood (1935 film) range of interest. However, after watching the filming, with a dynamic new star, Errol Flynn in a heroic role, alongside Olivia de Havilland, who had her debut in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", he changed his mind. After he accepted, however, he learned that he needed to compose more than an hour of symphonic music in only three weeks. The short time frame forced him to include about ten percent of the score using portions of symphonic poems by Franz Liszt. Not willing to take credit for the entire film score, he insisted that his credit be only for "musical arrangement".
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