Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950)
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Though usually associated with westerns, Columbia producer Harry Joe Brown proved to be up to the challenge of producing a satisfactory swashbuckler with Fortunes of Captain Blood. Based loosely on the same Rafael Sabatini novel which served as the inspiration for the 1935 Errol Flynn vehicle… More Though usually associated with westerns, Columbia producer Harry Joe Brown proved to be up to the challenge of producing a satisfactory swashbuckler with Fortunes of Captain Blood. Based loosely on the same Rafael Sabatini novel which served as the inspiration for the 1935 Errol Flynn vehicle Captain Blood, the film stars Louis Hayward as Irish doctor Peter Blood, who is exiled from England after treating the wounds of an enemy to the crown. Blood and several other outcasts turn to piracy, terrorizing merchant vessels of all nationalities. Dogging Captain Blood's trail is the heavy of the piece, the Marquis de Riconete (George Macready). Also appearing are Patricia Medina (Columbia's stock costume-drama heroine) as the marquis' niece, and Alfonso Bedoya (immortalized as the Mexican bandit Gold Hat in Treasure of the Sierra Madre) as a sadistic prison overseer. The battle scenes in Fortunes of Captain Blood would be cannibalized time and again over the next few years by quickie-flick producer Sam Katzman. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Gordon Douglas
- Written By
- Frank Burt, Michael Hogan
- Genres
- Action & Adventure
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- May 19, 1950 Wide
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Cast
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Louis Hayward
as Capt. Peter Blood
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Patricia Medina
as Isabelita Sotomayor
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George Macready
as Marquis de Riconete
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Alfonso Bedoya
as Prison Overseer
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Dona Drake
as Pepita Rosados
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Lowell Gilmore
as George Fairfax
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Wilton Graff
as Capt. Alvarado
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Curt Bois
as Charles II
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Lumsden Hare
as Tom Mannering
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Harry Cording
as Will Ward
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Duke York
as Andrew Hardy
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Sven Hugo Borg
as Swede
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Martin Garralaga
as Antonio Viamonte
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James Fairfax
as Nat Russell
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Charles Irwin
as Smitty
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Terry Kilburn
as Kenny Jensen
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Alberto Morin
as Miguel Gonzales
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Billy Bevan
as Billy Bragg
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Georges Renavent
as Count
