Captain Pirate is a 1952 American Technicolor swashbuckler adventure film directed by Ralph Murphy and starring Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina and John Sutton. The plot is based on the 1931 Rafael Sabatini short-story collection Captain Blood Returns, and the film is a sequel to Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950).
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Plot
Captain Blood is pardoned by the Crown for his crimes against Spain on the Spanish Main. By 1690, he is living in the West Indies on his plantation, where he practices medicine and is to be married to Isabella. He is arrested on a piracy charge after Cartagena is raided and false word spreads that he was the leader of the invasion. To prove himself innocent, he must sail again.
Cast
Louis Hayward as Captain Peter Blood
Patricia Medina as Dona Isabella
John Sutton as Hilary Evans
Charles Irwin as Angus McVickers
Ted de Corsia as Captain Easterling
Rex Evans as Governor Henry Carlyle
Malú Gatica as Amanda
George Givot as Tomas Velasquez
Robert McNeeley as Manuelito
Nina Koshetz as Madame Duval
Ian Wolfe as Viceroy
Lester Matthews as Col. Ramsey
Sven Hugo Borg as Swede
Sandro Giglio as Don Ramon
Production
Filming took place in August 1951.