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Captain Blood

Captain Blood

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 21, 1924

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

War, Action, Adventure, Romance

User Score

80%

Original Title

Captain Blood

Production Companies

Vitagraph Company of America

Director

David Smith

Description

Young Irish physician Peter Blood is exiled as a slave to Barbados, where he and his friend Jeremy are purchased by Colonel Bishop at the behest of his niece Arabella. With other slaves he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the terror of the Caribbean privateers until offered a commission in the English Navy. He defeats the French at Port Royal, and as a reward he is named governor of Jamaica and marries Arabella.