Captain Blood (1935 film) adapted as a radio play on the February 22, 1937, broadcast of Lux Radio Theater with Flynn, de Havilland, and Rathbone all reprising their film parts. This radio version is included in the Special Features of the DVD version compiled in 2005. 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
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