Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Dr. Peter Blood: Up that rigging, you monkeys! Aloft! There`s no chains to hold you now. Break out those sails and watch them fill with the wind that`s carrying us all to freedom! Dr. Peter Blood: Nuttall, me lad, there`s just one other little thing. Do you think you could find me a good stout piece of timber? About so thick and so long?
Honesty Nuttall: Yes, I think so.
Dr. Peter Blood: Then do so and lash it to your spine - it needs stiffening. Courage! We`ll join you at midnight.
Crewman: [Captain Blood`s ship has just received a terrible broadside from the one remaining French warship] We`re sinking! What should we do?
Dr. Peter Blood: Do? We`ll board a ship that`s not sinking!
Dr. Peter Blood: It`s entirely innocent, I am!
Prosecutor: Peter Blood... guilty or not guilty?
Dr. Peter Blood: It`s entirely innocent, I am!
Clerk of the court: Take the stand and face his Lordship.
[Peter Blood does so]
Clerk of the court: Are you guilty or not guilty? You must use the right words.
Dr. Peter Blood: Words is it? Oh. Not guilty. And speaking of words, I`d like to say a few about the injustice of keeping an innocent man locked up for three months in such filth and heat and ill-feeding... that my chief regret is I didn`t try to pull down the filthy fellow that sits on the throne!
Dr. Peter Blood: Men, I`ve just heard a startling piece of news - King James is kicked out of England and good King William reigns in his stead.
[the crew all cheer]
Dr. Peter Blood: For me this changes the shape of the world. For you who were slaves with me, it means that we`re no longer slaves, that we once more have a home and a country. For you who are English it means a chance to fight for your native land... for I now propose to sail into Port Royal and take it from the French! Those of you who are not English will have to be content with fighting for Captain Blood... and the loot you`ll find on the French ships. Are you willing to fight, men?
[the crew all cheer, "Aye"]
Dr. Peter Blood: For those of you who aren`t English it means a chance to fight for Captain Blood *and* the loot you find on the French ships!
Sentry: Pirates! Spanish pirates!
Dr. Peter Blood: This is what I call a timely interruption! Though what`ll come of it - the devil himself only knows!
Mrs. Barlow: You would think of geraniums when every other able-bodied man is out fighting!
Dr. Peter Blood: Hmm. It`s out of favor I seem to be with you, my vinegary virgin.
Mrs. Barlow: Half the town is saying you`re a Papist.
Dr. Peter Blood: Why? Because I`ve the sense to sleep this night instead of rushing to my ruin in a hopeless attempt to put this Duke of Monmouth on the throne? He`d be even worse than King James. Make haste with that cloak there, my pretty one.
Mrs. Barlow: And the other half of the town that defends you claims that you`re just a coward.
Dr. Peter Blood: Mrs. Barlow, me darlin`, you can tell `em if you like that I`ve been most everywhere that fighting was in evidence: I fought for the French against the Spanish and the Spanish against the French... and I learned me seamanship in the Dutch navy. And having had adventure enough in six years to last me six lives, I came here. Hung up the sword and picked up the lancet; became a man of peace and not of war... a healer, not a slayer. And that I`m going to be as long as I`m on top of the sod and not under it.
Capt. Hobart: Who the devil may you be?
Dr. Peter Blood: Peter Blood, Medicinae Baccalaureate.
Capt. Hobart: Don`t fling your French at me!
Dr. Peter Blood: Latin, my dull friend. It means I`m a doctor.
Capt. Hobart: Or a liar!
Capt. Hobart: If your wit were as big as your voice, me dear, it`s the great man you`d be by this.
Capt. Hobart: You may find me great enough to hang you.
Dr. Peter Blood: Cretheus, I don`t doubt it. You`ve the looks and manners of a hangman.
Capt. Hobart: Take him away. And the others, too.
Dr. Peter Blood: [to Baron Jeffreys, judge of the court] Faith, there`s a witness that you can`t deny: yourself, sir! For if I`m not a physician, how is it I know that you`re a dying man? The death to which you`re dooming hundreds of poor men daily - in a frantic effor to send their souls to perdition before your own - is a light pleasantry compared to the bleeding death in the lungs to which the great Judge has condemned you.
[after Baron Jeffreys instructs the jury to find Blood guilty of treason]
Dr. Peter Blood: What a creature must sit on the throne who lets a man like you deal out his justice.
[Peter Blood watches as the slave ship he and the others are on approaches Port Royal]
Dr. Peter Blood: It`s a truly royal clemency we`re granted, my friends... one well worthy of King James. He spares us the mercifully quick extinction of the hangman`s rope... and gives us the slow death of slavery. He grants us our lives in exchange for living death. Faith, it`s an uncertain world entirely.
[Arabella sees Peter leaving the Governor`s house after treating him for gout]
Arabella Bishop: Oh, forgive me for not recognizing you, Dr. Blood. You`re so changed... and for the better.
Arabella Bishop: The Governor tells me I have you to thank for that.
Arabella Bishop: You don`t sound very grateful, Dr. Blood.
Dr. Peter Blood: Do you suppose I`d be grateful for an easy life, when my friends are treated like animals? Faith, it`s they deserve your favors, not I. They`re all honest rebels. I was snoring in my bed while they were trying to free England from an unclean tyrant.
Arabella Bishop: I believe you`re talking treason.
Dr. Peter Blood: I hope I`m not obscure.
Dr. Peter Blood: It seems that you`re continually doing me favors. Faith, I don`t know why.
Arabella Bishop: Neither do I. Yes I do. It`s because you`re so very grateful and always thank me so prettily.
Dr. Peter Blood: Sure now, you don`t blame me for resenting you and your favors.
Arabella Bishop: This is interesting. I`ve had men tell me they had reasons for admiring me... and some few have even laid claims to reasons for loving me. But for a man to store up reasons for resenting me... how refreshing! You must tell me a few of them.
Dr. Peter Blood: First, is reason enough: you bought me. I`ve had no lack of experiences in my time; but to be bought and sold was a new one. I was in no mood to thank my purchaser.
Arabella Bishop: That I can understand. Go on.
Dr. Peter Blood: I`ve resented you because your name`s Bishop. My thoughts have lumped you with your uncle. How was I to know, be dad, that a devil could have... that a devil could have an angel for a niece.
Arabella Bishop: From a resentful man that is a pretty fair compliment.
Dr. Peter Blood: Miss Bishop, it`s difficult for an Irishman to apologize; but I hope you can forgive me for having thought badly of you.
Arabella Bishop: I will if you tell me how you think of me now.
Dr. Peter Blood: How I think of you now? I think of you... I think of you as the woman who owns me - her slave. But I think the man is lucky who can count you his friend.
Arabella Bishop: I think you know YOU can.
[she extends her hand for him to shake - he kisses her - she`s startled, pulls away and slaps him]
Dr. Peter Blood: Your slave is grateful for all marks of favor.
Arabella Bishop: When you forget your slavery and go so far...
Dr. Peter Blood: Now there you`re mistaken. However far this slave may go, he won`t forget. That`s a characteristic that the Irish have in common with the elephants.
[the former slaves have taken the Spanish ship - as the Spaniards return, their boats are destroyed by the ship`s cannons]
Henry Hagthorpe: Didn`t I tell you I was a gunner, sir?
Dr. Peter Blood: You did that, you son of a Yorkshire steer - and bless your rusty heart, it`s a gunner you are!
[Capt. Blood is dictating to Jeremy Pitt the agreement for the sailors who are assembled on the deck]
Dr. Peter Blood: We, the undersigned, are men without a country. Outlaws in our own land and homeless outcasts in any other. Desperate men, we go to seek a desperate fortune. Therefore, we do, here and now, band ourselves into a brotherhood of bucaneers... to practice the trade of piracy on the high seas. We, the hunted, will now hunt! Therefore, to that end, we enter into the following Articles of Agreement: First: We pledge ourselves to be bound together as brothers in a life and death friendship, sharing alike in fortune and in trouble. Second Article: All monies and valuables which may come into our possession shall be lumped together into a common fund... and from this fund shall first be taken the money to fit, rig, and provision the ship. After that, the recompense each shall receive who is wounded is follows: for the loss of a right arm: 600 pieces of eight; left arm: 500; for the loss of a right leg: 500; left leg: 400.
Honesty Nuttall: [to Hagthorpe] A fella can get rich if he`s lucky.
Henry Hagthorpe: Greedy, greedy.
Dr. Peter Blood: [continuing to dictate] If a man conceal any treasure captured or fail to place it in the general fund, he shall be marooned. Set ashore on a deserted isle, and there left with a bottle of water, a loaf of bread and a pistol with one load. If a man shall be drunk on duty he shall recieve the same fate. And if a man shall molest a woman captive against her will... he, too, shall receive the same punishment. These Articles entered into this 20th day of June, in the year 1687.
[having finished dictating, he addresses the crew]
Dr. Peter Blood: Now, men, you`ve heard the Agreement. It`s the world against us and us against the world!
Rev. Uriah Ogle: "His hand will be against every man, and every man`s hand against him." Genesis, 16th chapter, 12th verse.
Dr. Peter Blood: Those of you in favor of these Articles raise your right hands and say, "Aye!"
[the whole crew does so]
Dr. Peter Blood: My business was with his wounds, not his politics
Baron Jeffreys: Did you know the law that any person who does knowingly receive, harbor, comfort or succor a rebel is as guilty as if he himself bore arms?
Dr. Peter Blood: I only knew my sacred duty as a physician.
Baron Jeffreys: Your sacred duty, rogue, is to your king!
[coughs and sits back]
Dr. Peter Blood: I thought it was to my fellow man.
Dr. Peter Blood: Have we an English battle flag on board, Hagthorpe?
Henry Hagthorpe: We have every manner of battle flag on board, including a lady`s purple petticoat.
Dr. Peter Blood: No, wait. I`ve a better idea. When an English lion creeps up on a nest of French foxes he does well to wear a bushy tail. Hoist the French flag, Hagthorpe.
Henry Hagthorpe: Aye, sir.
Dr. Peter Blood: [Captain Blood kills Levasseur, his body lies at his feet] And that my friend ends a partnership that should never have begun.
Trivia
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Robert Donat was cast in the title role, but didn`t turn up at the start of shooting. Warner Brothers scrambled to find a replacement, asking Brian Aherne to take the role, but he refused. Warners decided to take a gamble on an unknown Australian named Errol Flynn.
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# No full-sized ships were used in the battle scenes. It was created by a combination of process shots, miniatures, and footage from the silent film, The Sea Hawk (1924), which was based on another Rafael Sabatini novel.
Because, Erich Wolfgang Korngold had only three weeks for scoring this picture, he used portions of two tone poems by Franz Liszt for some of the action scenes. However, he insisted on the screen credit "Musical Arrangements by" although still 90 % of the score was original.
In his biography, "My Wicked, Wicked Ways" Errol Flynn (an infamous prankster) states that he played many pranks on Olivia de Havilland. One of them was leaving a dead snake in her underwear, which she found when she went to put them on. After that she lived in terror of what prank he would pull on her next.
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# Basil Rathbone took a dislike to Errol Flynn. During their dueling sequence he reminded Flynn that he was being paid considerably more for his part in the picture than Flynn was and then deliberately wounded him in the arm (leaving a permanent scar).
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# The Academy Awards that year allowed write-in votes. Based on write-ins alone, Michael Curtiz would have won the Oscar for best director, but on the night he lost to John Ford for his work on The Informer (1935). Composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold and writer Casey Robinson also failed to be properly nominated, though they both received large numbers of postal votes for their work.
This was a big gamble for Warner Brothers in 1935 as it was a big expensive production costing $1 million without any household names (both Flynn and de Havilland became stars after the film`s release).
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# The first screen duel between Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone, to be replayed three years later and to grander effect in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938).
His first major starring role, Errol Flynn was so nervous during the initial shooting that director Michael Curtiz had to re-shoot his early scenes much later into the production, by which time Flynn had gained a level of confidence.
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# Although they worked together a total of 12 times, Errol Flynn and Michael Curtiz disliked each other intensely.
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# The first film to feature a musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, one of Hollywood`s greatest composers. Korngold was given three weeks to score the film, although during the day he was working on adapting the score of an operetta for Paramount called Give Us This Night (1936). He worked nights on his Captain Blood (1935) score.
Lord Willoughby is a combination of Lord Julian Wade and Lord Willoughby, the two nobleman characters from Raphael Sabatini`s book.
The first talkie to be based on a novel by then popular novelist Rafael Sabatini.
The first of nine movies made together by Warner Brothers` romantic couple Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn.
SPOILER: In the original novel, Captain Blood and Captain Levasseur are fighting over Madamoiselle d`Onefoys and not Arabella Bishop. The two characters were combined into one to save money for the production.
SPOILER: Captain Blood`s battles with the brother of the Spanish captain whose ship he stole, his commission to serve King James, and his commission under the French flag were all deleted from the movie version.
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Errol Flynn
(as Peter Blood)
with Olivia De Havilland
(as Arabella Bishop)
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