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Captain Blood: His Odyssey (Gateway Movie Classics) - Softcover

Sabatini, Rafael

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9780895263797: Captain Blood: His Odyssey (Gateway Movie Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0895263793 ISBN 13: 9780895263797
Publisher: Gateway Editions, 1998

Synopsis

The young physician Peter Blood, wrongly convicted of treason during the reign of King James II, is exiled from England and sold into slavery in Jamaica. He escapes and becomes a pirate. Later he returns to England, joining the Royal Navy in its efforts against France. Captain Blood, filmed in 1935, was Errol Flynn's first swashbuckler, his first pairing with Olivia de Havilland and Basil Rathbone, and the film that made him a star. This is the only paperback edition in print.

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About the Author

Jerry Robbins, co-founder of the Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air has written and produced over 350 radio plays, including Ticonderoga, Captain Blood, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Gettysburg, Treasure Island, Yankee Clipper, Powder River, and Little Big Horn. In 2006 he started a collaboration with legendary author Ray Bradbury, producing Dandelion Wine, followed by Something Wicked This Way Comes, and wrote the script for, and produced The Halloween Tree; all award winning productions that garnered high praise from the master himself. He is currently working on a fourth collaboration with Mr. Bradbury, a radio dramatization of The Martian Chronicles.

From AudioFile

The Colonial Radio Theatre's performance of Sabatini's historical adventure about an Irishman wrongly convicted of treason who escapes slavery into the life piratical is generally well served by sound effects (good explosions!) and music. The adaptation, however, is serviceable, if sometimes awkward. And the actors are not easy and natural in their roles, and a few are quite bad. Accents (which are constant) are a sore point: the British weak, the Spanish clichŽd, the French abysmal. Especially hard to listen to is the mannered and sepulchral narrator. This program deserves credit for effort and earnestness, and for some rousing moments, but mediocre acting, like Captain Blood himself, triumphs in the end. W.M. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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Publisher
Gateway Editions
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0895263793
ISBN 13 
9780895263797
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
369
Rating
  • 4.18 out of 5 stars
    18,159 ratings by Goodreads