Captain Blood

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Captain Blood, 1935.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Captain Blood, 1935.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Captain Blood, 1935.

Colonel Bishop (Lionel Atwill), coming aboard off Port Royal, is stunned to find that it's his own escaped slaves, led by Errol Flynn (title character) and Hagthorpe (Guy Kibbee), who've taken his ship back from Spanish invaders, Arabella (Olivia de Havilland) worrying ashore, in Captain Blood, 1935.

A doctor unjustly accused of rebellion, Errol Flynn (title character) challenges and diagnoses the presiding judge Baron Jeffries (Leonard Mudie), early in Warner Bros.' Captain Blood, 1935, from the Rafael Sabatini novel.

Over an hour into the film, the ultimate villain Captain Levasseur (Basil Rathbone) has appeared, partying with Errol Flynn (title character) and their crews in Tortuga, forming a fateful alliance, in Michael Curtiz' Captain Blood, 1935.

Enslaved in Jamaica, but now physician to the governor, Errol Flynn (title character) is almost caught by Bishop (Lionel Atwill) plotting (with Ross Alexander), then has his closest-yet encounter with the niece, his owner, Arabella (Olivia de Havilland), in Captain Blood, 1935.

Opening scene, Pitt (Ross Alexander) hurtles through 17th century rear-screen projected England to summon Errol Flynn (title character, though he's now a physician, not yet a seaman), doing some wry exposition with servant Mrs. Barlow (Jessie Ralph), in Warner Bros.' Captain Blood, 1935.

Errol Flynn (title character), still a slave in colonial Jamaica but now favored by the ailing governor, working a trick on incompetent fellow doctors Bronson and Wacker (Hobart Cavanaugh, Donald Meek), in Captain Blood, 1935.

First scene for radiant Arabella (Olivia de Havilland), with her uncle Colonel Bishop (Lionel Atwill) joining their friend the Jamaican governor (George Hassell), to look over the new slaves, taking up an immediate and reciprocated interest in star Errol Flynn, in Captain Blood, 1935.

After being unjustly sentenced to prison, a doctor escapes and becomes a notorious pirate in Captain Blood (1935) starring Errol Flynn.