Perhaps the BEST Pirate movie ever made...

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	• Captain Blood Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland Warner Home Video, 2005 average customer review:based on 77 reviews view larger image
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Captain James Blood is Great

I saw this film yesterday and can say it is really great movie. After got excited with Pirates of The Caribbean movies Captain Blood was in a way even better with old Hollywood style stars featuring Errol Flynn etc.

The miniature fighting scenes are entertaining and b & w format fits like hand in glove.

The history of Pirates is more accurate in Captain Blood than in Disney movies.

The Real Pirates Movie.

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The Classic Swashbuckler

Captain Blood, based fairly accurately on Rafael Sabatini's classic novel, presents us with the forerunner of today's romantic pirate. Played beautifully by Erroll Flynn, Captain Blood is a brilliant, impetuous doctor cast by fortune into slavery, and from slavery into piracy by fickle fate. Wonderfully dramatic, it is a picture which helped launch Errol Flynn to stardom, and made swashbuckling a hollywood tradition.

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Awesome epic

Errol Flynn to me is the definitive pirate. Handsome, dashing, and full of spirit. It was never planned for him to be teh star in Captain Blood. Rather, the man who was supposed to star in it wasn't able to so they stuck an almost unknown actor in the starring role. A good thing they did, for not only did they get a stellar performance, it also launced his carrer which allowed him to ultimately star in 'The Adventures of Robin Hood.'

Errol Flynn movies always deliver the action. Another you might like is 'They Died with their Boots On'. A rather fun movie of the life of Gerorge Armstrong Custer. Not very historically accurate but that aside, is a great movie.

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A classic tale of swashbuckling adventure

I really enjoyed this film. While it's a little slow in a few places, overall it's fun and exciting. The tale of Captain Blood follows him from respected doctor to pirate to hero, and the dialogue, a little old fashioned but that's its strength, is great.

I especially enjoyed the swordfight between Flynn and Basil Rathbone. And the sea battle at the end was very fun, too. Great movie.

Perhaps the BEST Pirate movie ever made...

The other reviews focus more on the plot surrounding the B&W film "Captain Blood" than on some isolated scenes of pure cinematic brilliance. I've seen this movie many times and have enjoyed the chemistry between dashingly handsome Errol Flynn and stunningly lovely Olivia de Havilland more and more with each viewing. Those scenes in particular in which Miss Bishop (de Havilland) is Mistress to Dr. Blood's (Flynn) Slave and then Peter Blood's Master to Arabella Bishop's Slave are full of romantic tension laced with subtle humor, as though both were having fun verbally besting each other. Another great moment was the sword fight on the beach between smiling adversaries Flynn and Basil Rathbone, with Rathbone doing an incredible impersonation of a Dastardly French Pirate. The only other sword fight I can think of that comes close to this one being a classic is in "The Prisoner of Zenda" between Ronald Coleman and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. If you haven't had the opportunity to see this swashbuckling film, rent it and treat yourself to a big bowl of popcorn and be prepared for a rousing adventure. Those were the days when actors knew how to act.

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