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 (1935 film) after the actor turned down the offer, the studio focused on 19-year-old Olivia de Havilland, who had starred in three previous films that same year, including "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for director Max Reinhardt. Most of the film was shot on a sound stage in the summer of 1935. Some exterior scenes, such as the sword fight between Rathbone and Flynn, were shot on location at Laguna Beach, California standing in for a Caribbean shore (specifically, the fictional island of Virgen Magra, which translates from Spanish as "lean [as in meat] virgin"). The final battle sequence between Blood's pirate crew