In 17th-century England, Irish doctor Peter Blood (Errol Flynn) is summoned to aid Lord Gildoy, a wounded patron who participated in the Monmouth Rebellion. In 1962 Flynn's son Sean starred in The Son of Captain Blood. The same year, Basil Rathbone also starred with Flynn in The Dawn Patrol (1938). Captain Blood also established de Havilland, in just her fourth screen appearance, as a major star and was the first of eight films co-starring Flynn and de Havilland in 1938 the two would be re-united with Rathbone in The Adventures of Robin Hood. and a "symbol of an unvanquished man" during the Depression. Flynn's performance made him a major Hollywood star and established him as the natural successor to Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Pictures took a serious risk in pairing two relatively unknown performers in the lead roles. Warren Kerrigan as Peter Blood, the physician-turned-pirate in this Vitagraph production. An earlier 1924 silent film version of Captain Blood starred J. The film is based on the 1922 novel Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, with a screenplay by Casey Robinson, and concerns an enslaved doctor and his fellow prisoners who escape their cruel island imprisonment and become pirates in the West Indies.
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