
The Sea Hawk(1940)
Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.


“A million dollars worth of adventure!”
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Errol Flynn
Dr. Peter Blood

Olivia de Havilland
Arabella Bishop

Lionel Atwill
Colonel Bishop

Basil Rathbone
Levasseur

Ross Alexander
Jeremy Pitt

Guy Kibbee
Hagthorpe

Henry Stephenson
Lord Willoughby

Robert Barrat
Wolverstone

Hobart Cavanaugh
Dr. Bronson

Donald Meek
Dr. Whacker
Captain Blood is a adventure, history, romance film released in 1935 exploring themes of governor, jamaica, exile, treason, sword fight, piracy. Directed by Michael Curtiz, it stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill. Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
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