The first adaptation of Captain Blood was the 1924 silent film directed by David Smith and starring J. Warren Kerrigan as Captain Blood and Jean Paige as Arabella Bishop. In 1935 Michael Curtiz directed the classic film version of the novel, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Haviland. This is a splendid production that remains fairly close to Sabatini's novel. There is some condensation of characters and incident, but the film captures the spirit of the novel. Erich Wolfgang Korngold provided the stirring score for the.....
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