It launched 26-years-old Errol and 19-year-old Olivia De Havilland in perhaps the best pirate tale ever. The picture in which Tasmanian-born Flynn -who took the part Robert Donat declined for health reasons-, following just a couple of small Hollywood characters, burst upon the world as a new star. As he leads his followers against the evil governor but finally earns pardon for his swashbuckling ways. As Blood and his crew sailing recklessly through dangerous waters, from the Caribbean islands along Atlantic Ocean today he still lives in hundreds of legends. And this Captain Blood began his career of piracy with a ship, a handful of men and a brain carving a crimson career, until his name became the terror of the Caribbean, until his name became the pride and toast of every buccaneer of the brotherhood of the coast. Blood and his comrades flee and Peter is forced into piracy.
Pirates from around the world congregated at Port Royal, coming from waters as far away as Madagascar. Port Royal was a popular homeport in which many of the crews turned pirate and used the city as their main base during the 17th century against the Spanish treasure fleets. The Port Royal town is taken, then the pirates land, to loot, pillage and celebrate it. As the enslaved doctor and his colleagues in chains escape but he is detained, though the timely interruption a Spanish ship turned pirate under the protection of the gold and crimson flag of King Philip of Spain. It deals with a doctor named Peter Blood (Errol Flynn, as Robert Donat turned down the role, he had been unable to accept the part) who is imprisoned and exiled into slavery in Port Royal, Jamaica there he falls in love for a beautiful young (Olivia De Havilland) and is mistreated by a tyrannical governor (Lionel Atwill).
This classic story of romantic adventure by Michael Curtiz, filmed in Hollywood, comes to life enriched by brilliant photography and adapted rightly to the screen. Thrilling swashbuckling who launched then unknown Errol Flynn to fame at a great role in which he becomes pirate of the Caribbean.
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