Akira Kurosawa's 1957 adaptation Throne of Blood makes the character into Capitan Miki ( played by Minoru Chiaki ), slain by Macbeth's equivalent ( Captain Washizu ) when his wife explains that she is with child.

By the end of the year, people again tired of Warner Bros. musicals, and the studio – after the huge profits made by the 1935 film Captain Blood – shifted its focus on producing Errol Flynn swashbucklers.

Captain Blood is a 1935 swashbuckling film made by First National Pictures and Warner Brothers.

Captain Blood was adapted as a radio play on the February 22, 1937 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater with Flynn, de Havilland and Rathbone all reprising their film parts.

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This was the third film to pair Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland ( after Captain Blood and The Charge of the Light Brigade ).

Flynn as Captain Blood

Flynn was an overnight sensation in his first starring role, Captain Blood ( 1935 ).

Working throughout his career with a cross section of Hollywood's best fight arrangers, Flynn became noted for his fast-paced sword fights as seen in The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk and Captain Blood.

Flynn co-starred with Olivia de Havilland in eight films: Captain Blood ( 1935 ), The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1936 ), The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ), Four's a Crowd ( 1938 ), Dodge City ( 1939 ), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 ), Santa Fe Trail ( 1940 ), and They Died with Their Boots On ( 1941 ).

Other popular characters included by Farmer as members of the Wold Newton family are: Solomon Kane ; Captain Blood ; The Scarlet Pimpernel ; Sherlock Holmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty ; Phileas Fogg ; The Time Traveller ( main character of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells ); Allan Quatermain ; A. J.

While sailing to Blood Island, the crew is distracted by sightseeing whilst Captain Rottingham boards the ship and fights Guybrush in a game of insult swordfighting.

In 1935, the studio head personally selected Flynn for the title role of Captain Blood, even though Flynn was an unknown actor at the time.

After appearing with Joe E. Brown in Alibi Ike and James Cagney in The Irish in Us, she played opposite Errol Flynn in such highly popular films as Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1936 ), and as Maid Marian to Flynn's Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ).

The eight films in which they co-starred are Captain Blood ( 1935 ), The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1936 ), The Adventures of Robin Hood and Four's a Crowd ( 1938 ), Dodge City and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 ), Santa Fe Trail ( 1940 ) and They Died with Their Boots On ( 1941 ).

He directed more than fifty films in Europe and more than one hundred in the United States, many of them cinema classics, including The Adventures of Robin Hood, Captain Blood, Dodge City, The Sea Hawk, Angels with Dirty Faces, Casablanca, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Mildred Pierce, and White Christmas.

In the mid-30s, he began the highly successful cycle of adventure films starring Errol Flynn that included Captain Blood ( 1935 ), The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1936 ), The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ), Dodge City, The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 ), The Sea Hawk and Santa Fe Trail ( 1940 ).

* In the book " Captain Blood: his Odyssey " ( Raphael Sabatini ), the title character served in the Dutch Navy under de Ruyter.

Many symphonic poems have entered popular culture through their use in media and film as early as the 1930s, with Erich Wolfgang Korngold's use of excerpts from Liszt's Mazeppa in the Errol Flynn movie Captain Blood and a recurrent use of Les Préludes in the Flash Gordon serial.

** Sid McLauchlan ( producer ), Richard Lancaster, Ulrich Vette ( engineers ), André Previn ( conductor ) & the London Symphony Orchestra for Previn Conducts Korngold ( Sea Hawk ; Captain Blood, etc.

Dr. Peter Blood, main hero of Rafael Sabatini's novel Captain Blood, was sentenced by Judge Jeffreys for aiding wounded Monmouth rebels.

( The novel Captain Blood, and the later movies based on it, graphically portray this punishment.

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

Ann, pleased to see her friend happy, was intrigued by the new fruits a friend of Captain Heard had sent on board for their enjoyment.

Moreover, he had spent six months on the Galapagos islands, among the great turtles that Captain Cook had found there, and now and then he would disappear into some small island of the West Indies.

It didn't take Captain Chandler long to realize that he had to carry a heavy load of tradition on his shoulders as commander of Troop Aj.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

She gave a fine portrayal of Auntie Mame on Broadway in 1958 and has appeared in live television from `` Captain Brassbound's Conversion '' to `` Camille ''.

`` Surely, Captain, you did not find my name on any suspicious paper or anything ''.

During his raid on Washington, D. C. in 1864, Lincoln was watching the combat from an exposed position ; Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes shouted at him, " Get down, you damn fool, before you get shot!

It was here, on 16 July 1916, that he again met his lifelong friend, Captain Arthur Hastings, and solved the first of his cases to be published: The Mysterious Affair at Styles.

Several people who spoke to Selkirk after his rescue ( such as Captain Rogers and the journalist Steele ) were impressed by the tranquillity of mind and vigour of the body that Selkirk had attained while on the island.

It was from a hill on Arapawa Island in 1770 that Captain James Cook first saw the sea passage from the Pacific Ocean to the Tasman Sea, which was named Cook Strait.

A colony there would be of great assistance to the British Navy in facilitating attacks on the Spanish possessions in Chile and Peru, as Banks's collaborators, James Matra, Captain Sir George Young and Sir John Call pointed out in written proposals on the subject.

* The title is referenced in Marvel One-Shots A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer and is included on the Captain America: The First Avenger Blu-ray Disc and DVD releases.

" We had not got forty yards on our retreat ," remembered Captain Peter Drake, the Irish mercenary serving with the French – " when the words sauve qui peut went through the great part, if not the whole army, and put all to confusion "

General Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) rallies his troops from a French château thirty-five miles from the front, where he is aided and abetted by his assistant, Captain Darling ( Tim McInnerny ), pencil-pusher supreme and Blackadder's nemesis, whose name is played on for maximum comedic value.

He may have been a sailor on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War before settling on the Caribbean island of New Providence, a base for Captain Benjamin Hornigold, whose crew Teach joined sometime around 1716.

In a report made by a Captain Mathew Munthe on an anti-piracy patrol for North Carolina, " Thatch " was described as operating " a sloop 6 gunns and about 70 men ".

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