The Son of Captain Blood The Son of Captain Blood The Son of Captain Blood is a 1962 Italian/Spanish/American international co-production film. It is the first starring role in a film for Sean Flynn, the son of Errol Flynn, who played the title character in the 1935 film "Captain Blood". The film was released in Great Britain in 1963 by Warner-Pathe (in some regions on a double bill with Hammer's "The Scarlet Blade"). Paramount Pictures released the film in the U.S. in 1964 on a double bill with the Jerry Lewis film "The Patsy". Robert Blood, son of the great Captain Peter Blood is restless
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