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Captain Blood (1924)

Captain Blood poster
Directed by
David Smith
Genre
action film, swashbuckler film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
NR
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A doctor is wrongly convicted of treason and sold into slavery in the Caribbean. He escapes and becomes a buccaneer captain leading a crew against a Spanish fleet.

swashbucklingadventurousromanticfast-paceddramaticnostalgicsweeping

What happens

Captain Blood is a 1924 American silent adventure film based on the 1922 novel Captain Blood, His Odyssey by Rafael Sabatini. Produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America, the film is directed by David Smith, brother of Vitagraph founder Albert E. Smith. Early silent film hero J. Warren Kerrigan stars along with resident Vitagraph leading actress Jean Paige, who was also married to Albert E. Smith. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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