Fortunes of Captain Blood

Love under black sails is an American pirate film directed by Gordon Douglas from 1950, based on the 1922 novel, Peter Blood Odyssey by Rafael Sabatini.

Action

Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, who was arrested during the Monmouth rebellion, because he had supplied a wounded Irish rebels. It is sold as a slave to the West Indies. He manages to escape and is captain of the ship " Avenger ". He and his sailors to be dreaded pirates who preferred Spanish ships to board and plunder.

King Charles II of Spain commissioned the Marquis de Nete Rico to catch the dreaded pirates, hence the attacks on ships stop flying the Spanish flag. As Blood wants to refresh their inventories on a Spanish island, his men are betrayed by slave traders Fairfax. The Marquis tries to learn the whereabouts of their captain of mariners through torture.

Blood dresses as a greengrocer in order to find his men and free. He meets Pepita rosados ​​, with whom he befriends. She tells him that many slaves of Fairfax are terminally ill. Blood seeks to Fairfax to force him to help. He learns that the slave traders has problems with a niece of the Marquis, with Isabelita Sotomayor.

The Marquis Fairfax suspected of supporting Bloods and lets his men secretly follow his niece to the house of the slaver. Isabelita tries to bring Fairfax to sail her to the Spanish mainland. After the talks, the men of the Marquis attack. The still disguised as greengrocers Blood can bring the wounded Fairfax to a tavern and supply in there. He promises to bring them to the mainland when they intervened with her ​​uncle for Fairfax Isabelita. Blood learns how the seal of the Marquis looks and tries to fake it.

With a forged letter Blood wants to get his people out of the dungeon, but the fraud is detected. Blood, however, can escape with his men. The Marquis will not depart from it to catch Blood. Isabelita learns that he wants to torture the tavern owners. She believes that Blood had already sailed, and reveals his whereabouts in order to spare the tavern owner torture.

The incoming tide has prevented Blood to settle. The Marquis can put him at sea. In the ensuing battle, the ship of the Marquis is on fire, which is now trying to ram Bloods ship. However Bloods men can destroy the enemy ship. After their victory sail Blood and his men off while Isabelita remains on the island and there begins a new government, which abolishes slavery.

Reviews

The lexicon of the International film described the film as " fight joyful sea adventure, routinely staged; overall a weaker remake of Michael Curtiz " Captain Blood " USA 1935. "

Background

The premiere took place on 19 May 1950. In Germany the film was first shown on 15 March 1951.

Sabatini's novel served as the basis for several films. As early as 1924 J. Warren Kerrigan played the pirate in a silent movie. 1935 was followed by Captain Blood by Michael Curtiz, with Errol Flynn became a star. Louis Hayward played the Pirates in 1952 once again in the black Isabell ( Pirate Captain ) by Ralph Murphy. Another film version followed in 1992, the Soviet- French production Odisseya Kapitana Blada by Andrei Prachenko with Yves Lambrecht in the title role.

The German emigrant Curt Bois played his last Hollywood role here; equal in He then returned home to Germany.

1950 in film Gordon Douglas (director) Screenplay Harry Joe Brown Film score Paul Sawtell
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