Captain Blood
by Rafael Sabatiniliterary work· published 1922
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[The story of the famous fictional surgeon-turned-pirate, Dr. Peter Blood. What's interesting -- besides the thunderingly well told adventure story -- is that much of the historical background is based on fact.]
Adaptations (3)
Captain Blood has been adapted into 3 films, from 1924 to 1991. The most recent is Captain Blood: His Odyssey (1991).
Captain Blood1924 · film · 110 min · dir. David Smith, Albert E. Smith · IMDb ↗IMDb6.3100%Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of his niece Arabella. With other slaves he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the terror of the Caribbean privateers until offered a commission in the English Navy. He defeats the French at Port Royal, and as a reward he is named governor of Jamaica and marries Arabella.
Captain Blood1935 · film · 119 min · dir. Michael Curtiz · IMDb ↗Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
Captain Blood: His Odyssey1991 · film · 141 min · dir. Andrei Prachenko · IMDb ↗IMDb7.0After being wrongly convicted as a traitor, Peter Blood, an English physician, is sent to exile in the British colonies of the Caribbean, where he becomes a pirate.
