Fortunes of Captain Blood / Captain Pirate (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
by Gordon Douglas, Ralph Murphy
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Actor: Charles Irwin, John Sutton, Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, Ted de CorsiaDirector: Gordon Douglas, Ralph Murphy
Brand: VARIOUS
Producer: Harry Joe Brown
Writer: Frank Burt
Writer: John Meredyth Lucas
Writer: Michael Hogan
Writer: Rafael Sabatini
Writer: Robert Libott
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 176 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Fortunes of Captain Blood / Captain Pirate (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
Movie Review: Two Great Swashbuckling Sagas!
Summary: 5 Stars
This review is for the Midnite Movies DVD "Fortunes of Captain Blood" and "Captain Pirate," both from Columbia Pictures and produced by Harry Joe Brown, who produced a number of Randolph Scott westerns.
This Double Feature DVD is distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The video transfer is excellent. The movies are remastered in high definition and have subtitles in English, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.
Louis Hayward and Patricia Medina were teamed together for a number of swashbuckling sagas. In addition to the above, the team also did "The Lady in the Iron Mask", and "The Lady and the Bandit", which I hope will be released soon since their movies were very entertaining.
The first movie on the DVD is "Fortunes of Captain Blood", 91 min., black & white, 1950, directed by Gordon Douglas (G. Douglas directed "Doolins of Oklahoma" and "The Nevadan", two exciting Randolph Scott westerns. "Fortunes" had an excellent supporting role from Dona Drake. She plays the Spanish spitfire who helps Captain Blood release his mates from prison, and generally steals every scene she's in. The heavy is George Macready. Incidentally he was the heavy in the two Randy Scott westerns I mentioned above.
The second movie is "Captain Pirate", 85 min., color, 1952, directed by Ralph Murphy, who had previously directed them in "The Lady and the Bandit", 1951. "Captain Pirate" is a lively buccaneering programmer with plenty of high spirits. Needless to say, Patricia Medina looks ravishing in Technicolor. Although he never reached the swordsmanship skills of Errol Flynn, the South African Louis Hayward handles his action scenes well enough.
For all of the above, I rate it five stars.
Summary of Fortunes of Captain Blood / Captain Pirate (Midnite Movies Double Feature)
No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 27-JUN-2006
Media Type: DVD
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