In 17th centuryEngland, Dr. Peter Blood (Errol Flynn) is convicted of treason against the King. He is sold into slavery, and purchased by the beautiful Arabella Bishop (Olivia de Havilland). Doctor Blood and his fellow slaves escape, steal a Spanish ship, and begin a life of piracy. The movie also stars Lionel Atwill and Basil Rathbone.
Captain Blood is also the name of a video game from 1988 made by Imagitec Design Ltd and released by ERE Informatique (later known as Exxos). It was later re-released by Players Premier Software. The game features music by Jean Michel Jarre.
CaptainBlood is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922.
It concerns the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, who is convicted of treason in the aftermath of the Monmouth rebellion in 1685, and enslaved on the Caribbean island of Barbados.
The Monmouth rebels were sold into slavery as described in the book; Blood's pirate adventures and subsequent career borrow heavily from those of Sir Henry Morgan; and the shifting political alliances of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 are used in the novel as a plot device to allow Blood's return to respectability.
Blood is not actively involved, but he is called to tend to one of the wounded -- and promptly arrested for his trouble.
CaptainBlood joins forces with others -- fellow pirate Captain Levasseur, for example -- and he then even goes into service of the King of France, but these alliances collapse because of the base, mean, and duplicitous actions of those he is forced to rely on.
CaptainBlood is a bit too good to be true: he is always the gentleman and certainly no rogue.
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