Captain Pirate

Captain Pirate
Theatrical release poster
Directed byRalph Murphy
Screenplay by
Based on
Captain Blood Returns
by Rafael Sabatini
Produced byHarry Joe Brown
Starring
CinematographyCharles Lawton Jr.
Edited byGene Havlick
Music byGeorge Duning
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • August 27, 1952 (1952-08-27)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Captain Pirate is a 1952 American Technicolor swashbuckler adventure film directed by Ralph Murphy and starring Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina and John Sutton. The plot is based on the 1931 Rafael Sabatini short-story collection Captain Blood Returns, and the film is a sequel to Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950).

Plot

Captain Blood is pardoned by the Crown for his crimes against Spain on the Spanish Main. By 1690, he is living in the West Indies on his plantation, where he practices medicine and is to be married to Isabella. He is arrested on a piracy charge after Cartagena is raided and false word spreads that he was the leader of the invasion. To prove himself innocent, he must sail again.

Cast

Production

Filming took place in August 1951.

References

  1. ↑ Blottner, Gene (2011). "Captain Blood". Columbia Pictures Movie Series, 1926–1955: The Harry Cohn Years. McFarland. ISBN 9780786486724.
  2. ↑ Schallert, Edwin (July 28, 1951). "Tay Garnett Plans 'The Dude' for Duke Wayne; Brown Adds Noted Actors". Los Angeles Times. p. 15.