Fortunes of Captain Blood

Unrated

5/19/19501h 31m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Sabatini's famous buccaneer in swashbuckling adventure...exotic romance! ~

Overview:

When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. They've been taken prisoner by the Spanish Marquis de Riconete who is now using them as slave labor harvesting pearls from the sea.

Director:

Gordon Douglas

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

sword fight
pirate
swashbuckler
caribbean sea
buccaneer
pirate ship
17th century
tortuga

Cast

Louis Hayward

~ as ~

Captain Peter Blood

Patricia Medina

~ as ~

Isabelita Sotomayor

George Macready

~ as ~

Marquis de Riconete

Alfonso Bedoya

~ as ~

Carmilio, Prison Overseer

Dona Drake

~ as ~

Pepita

Lowell Gilmore

~ as ~

George Fairfax

Wilton Graff

~ as ~

Capt. Alvarado

Curt Bois

~ as ~

King Charles II

Lumsden Hare

~ as ~

Tom Mannering

Billy Bevan

~ as ~

Billy Bragg

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 1 year(s) ago
6
I think it's fair to say that Louis Hayward was just a little bit past his best when he made this rather dry pirate adventure. He picks up the character from Errol Flynn (which maybe doesn't help either) as "Capt. Blood" and works on a complicated plan to go into the town incognito, and rescue some of his crew captured by the wicked "Marquis" (George Macready) now used to fish for pearls - quite a dangerous activity in the shark-infested waters. Along the way, he falls for the slightly aloof "Isabelita" (Patricia Medina) who is the daughter of his antagonist and the apple of the eye of the ambitious "Fairfax" (Lowell Gilmore). What's really missing here - save for, maybe the last ten minutes, is action. For an action film it's positively stolid. Hayward tries hard to hold it together and Macready was ever a good baddie but nobody is firing at all well here as they have to plod through the interminable dialogue with just nowhere near enough swash, buckle or swinging from the yardarm. This is one of my favourite genres and though it's not the best, it's still watchable enough. You'll never remember it, though.