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 (1935 film) in the United States on December 28, 1935. The film received positive reviews and notices and wide public approval. "Variety", one of the entertainment industry's leading trade publications of the period, also praised many aspects of "Captain Blood". In its review of the film on New Year's Day in 1936, "Variety" does, however, cite weaknesses in the production, especially in its storyline: Despite finding some flaws in the "scripting" of "Captain Blood" and in the presentation of some battle sequencies in the film, "Variety" called Flynn's performance "impressive" and predicted that his work in the production would provide the young