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Captain
Blood (1935) – M. Curtiz
Pirates of the Caribbean indeed! Tasmanian Errol Flynn swashbuckles into
action as the gentlemen doctor Peter Blood turned prisoner of King James II
turned slave on a Jamaican sugar plantation turned captain of a pirate ship turned….I
won’t spoil it for you. Michael Curtiz
keeps the film moving along and Flynn is aided by 19 year old Olivia de
Havilland as his love/hate interest, Guy Kibbee and Ross Alexander as pirates
in arms, and Lionel Atwill as the villainous plantation owner. Flynn is
certainly charismatic in his first major film but this is the one that typecast
him forever. Sets, miniatures, and special effects make you feel that you
really are on the high seas (sort of). A true “boy’s own adventure” as they
might have called it back then.
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