Fortunes of Captain Blood

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

1950 1h 31m EN

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7.3

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★7.3TMDB · 5

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Synopsis

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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.

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

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Cast

Louis Hayward
Captain Peter Blood
Patricia Medina
Isabelita Sotomayor
George Macready
Marquis de Riconete
Alfonso Bedoya
Carmilio, Prison Overseer
Dona Drake
Pepita
Lowell Gilmore
George Fairfax
Wilton Graff
Capt. Alvarado
Curt Bois
King Charles II

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Gordon Douglas
Writers: Frank Burt, Robert Libott, Michael Hogan
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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76 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Gordon Douglas, shot by George E. Diskant. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Gene Havlick shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Louis Hayward and Patricia Medina and George Macready carry the top of the cast.

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Marketing tagline: "Sabatini's famous buccaneer in swashbuckling adventure...exotic romance!".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0042474 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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WILD

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Only 5 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Gordon Douglas directs. George E. Diskant behind the camera. Gene Havlick cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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176 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Directed by Gordon Douglas, shot by George E. Diskant. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Editor Gene Havlick shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
4Louis Hayward and Patricia Medina and George Macready carry the top of the cast.
5Marketing tagline: "Sabatini's famous buccaneer in swashbuckling adventure...exotic romance!".
6IMDB entry: tt0042474 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 5 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
8Classified under 8 themes, including "sword fight", "pirate", "swashbuckler", "caribbean sea".

The technical file

Cinematography: George E. Diskant
Editing: Gene Havlick
Makeup / hair: Clay Campbell
Runtime: 91 min · 1h 31m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950)

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CinemaSerf2024-06-29
★ 6/10
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.

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