Captain Blood
(1924) United States of America
B&W : 11 reels / 10,680 feet
Directed by David Smith
Cast: J. Warren Kerrigan [Captain Blood], Jean Paige [Arabella Bishop], Charlotte Merriam [Mary Traill], James Morrison [Jeremy Pitt], Allan Forrest [Lord Julian Wade], Bertram Grassby [Don Diego], Otis Harlan [Corliss], Jack Curtis [Wolverstone], Wilfrid North [Colonel Bishop], Otto Matiesen [Lord Jeffreys], Robert Bolder [Admiral Van Der Kuylen], Templar Saxe [Governor Steed], Henry Barrows [Lord Willoughby], Boyd Irwin [Levasseur], Henry Hebert [Captain Hobart], Miles McCarthy [Captain Caverly], Tom McGuire [Farmer Baynes], Frank Whitson [Baron de Rivarol], Helen Howard [Mistress Baynes], Robert Milash [Kent], William Eugene [Don Estaban], George Williams [Major Mallard], Omar Whitehead [Don Miguel], Muriel Paull [Mademoiselle d’Ogeron], George Lewis [Henri d’Ogeron]
The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by The Vitagraph Company of America. / Scenario by Jay Pilcher, from the novel Captain Blood, His Odyssey by Rafael Sabatini. Research by Philip Goodfriend. Art direction by Al Herman. Assistant director, William T. Dagwell. Cinematography by Steve Smith Jr. Film editor, Albert Jordan. Presented by Albert E. Smith. / © 11 September 1924 by The Vitagraph Company of America [LP20561]. Released 21 September 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The novel was subsequently filmed as Captain Blood (1935).
Drama: Adventure: Historical.
Survival status: Print exists [incomplete 9.5mm reduction positive (approximately 30 minutes of footage)].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Pirates - Ships
Listing updated: 30 November 2008.
References: Brownlow-Parade pp. 14, 17, 578; Edmonds-BigU p. 130; Kerr-Silent p. 31; Slide-BigV p. 176o : ClasIm-204 p. 44 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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