Captain Blood

Title: Captian Blood
Year: 1935
Director: Michael Curtiz
Writer: Casey Robinson, based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini
Starring: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone
Music: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Distinctions: Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director (write-in), Best Screenplay (write-in), Best Score (write-in) and Best Sound Recording
Length: 119 minutes
Synopsis: a group of men sentenced to slavery escapes and becomes pirates
How I saw it: on video (rented on DVD), yesterday
Subjective Rating: 7/10 (Good).
Objective Rating: 6/10 (points off for dialog, pacing, cinematography and acting) c. 2.5/4 (Okay).

My wife says, "It's like a bag of cliches, tied with a cliche bow. But that's okay." It's a fun movie to watch, not so much because it's a fun movie, but because it's so campy and dated that it's easy to get into the spirit of Going To The Movies In 1935 and appreciate it in perspective. Whoever at Warner Brothers had the idea to package these DVDs the way they do - with a handful of period shorts and a newsreel - is a genius.