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Captain Blood

Captain Blood

Adventure · History · Romance · 1935

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Movie details

Captain Blood

“A million dollars worth of adventure!”

1935 Adventure · History · Romance 1h 59m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

7.7 / 10

16.8K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

100 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

89 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

7.2 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Michael Curtiz

Written by

Casey Robinson

Errol Flynn

Errol Flynn

Dr. Peter Blood

Olivia de Havilland

Olivia de Havilland

Arabella Bishop

Lionel Atwill

Lionel Atwill

Colonel Bishop

Basil Rathbone

Basil Rathbone

Levasseur

Ross Alexander

Ross Alexander

Jeremy Pitt

Guy Kibbee

Guy Kibbee

Hagthorpe

Henry Stephenson

Henry Stephenson

Lord Willoughby

Court is in session

Put Captain Blood on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Prestige Tourist

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.