Captain Blood (1935)
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.
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It also includes references and allusions to a variety of other sea-faring stories, from "Captain Blood" to "The Crimson Pirate" to "Titanic."
But that leaves more than two hours (aka "the running time of Captain Blood ") of punishing dialogue sequences, which call to mind another franchise that was born out of a sincere desire to update the classic genre films of long ago with state-of-the-art effects, before turning into a flabby epic of political economics; and when you find yourself reminded of Stars Wars: Episode I while watching a movie, that is a fairly unanswerable argument that the movie you are watching has gone seriously wrong.
"The Count of Monte Cristo" is not as good of a film as say "Captain Blood" probably because well, Errol Flynn was the master of these kinds of movies, but it's old school in another way.
It offers lots of animal action (monkeys and hordes of red ants, primarily) as well as great stunts both CGI (“Look out for those falls!”) and physical, as the Colonel Professor and Mutt draw swords and make like Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone in “Captain Blood.”
It doesn't jibe with attempts at old-school cliffhanging, such as Blanchett's "Captain Blood" duel with LaBeouf.
Bruckheimer readily admits he loved old pirate films such as "Treasure Island"(1934), "Captain Blood" (1935) and "The Crimson Pirate" (1952), and he has created a film with the flavor and fun of those wonderful Hollywood classics.
The result is a great adventure film that can stand on its own merits alongside such genre classics as The Black Pirate, Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk, while bringing something very new to the table.
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The movie, of course, pokes good-natured fun at its famous predecessors, things like Doug Fairbanks's "The Black Pirate" (1926) and Errol Flynn's "Captain Blood" (1935) and "The Sea Hawk" (1940).
It's Indiana Jones meets "Captain Blood."
This is a big budget, well-crafted swashbuckling adventure that reps a bow to the great sea faring films like “Captain Blood,” The Sea Hawk” and “Against All Flags.”
If you've seen any of the great swashbucklers of the Errol Flynn era, such as "Captain Blood" or "The Sea Hawk," it will feel as good as, but no better than, any of them.
With Flynn having seen success in WB's "Captain Blood," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," and "The Adventures of Robin Hood," RKO looked for a comparable star and found not one but three in Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., the son of the silent-screen star.