Captain Blood
About Captain Blood
Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled to Barbados as a slave. Colonel Bishop buys him, and his friend Jeremy, at the wish of Bishop's niece Arabella. With other slaves Blood takes a Spanish galleon and becomes a terror among Caribbean privateers, until he is offered a commission in the English navy. He defeats the French at Port Royal.
Cast & crew
More about Captain Blood
David Smith directed. He was the brother of Vitagraph founder Albert E. Smith. Vitagraph produced and distributed the film from Rafael Sabatini's 1922 novel Captain Blood, His Odyssey. J. Warren Kerrigan plays Blood. Jean Paige, Albert E. Smith's wife and a Vitagraph leading actress, plays opposite him. Wikidata times it at 110 minutes.
Themes
Making
Paige was married to Albert E. Smith, whose brother directed the picture for the family company.
Notes
- This is the silent version, not the 1935 Michael Curtiz film with Errol Flynn.
- Arabella is Colonel Bishop's niece. She is the reason Bishop buys Blood.
- The novel's full title is Captain Blood, His Odyssey.
Scenes
- Bishop buys Blood and Jeremy because Arabella asks him to.
- Blood and the other slaves take a Spanish galleon.
- With an English commission, he beats the French at Port Royal.
Influenced by
- Rafael Sabatini's 1922 novel Captain Blood, His Odyssey
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Captain Blood (1924).webm)
