Product Details

• Actors: Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, John Sutton, Charles Irwin, Ted de Corsia
• Directors: Gordon Douglas, Ralph Murphy
• Writers: Frank Burt, John Meredyth Lucas, Michael Hogan, Rafael Sabatini, Robert Libott
• Producers: Harry Joe Brown
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 1.0)
• Subtitles: English, Portuguese, Japanese
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: June 27, 2006
• Run Time: 176 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FDEV34
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,993 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Fortunes of Captain Blood / Captain Pirate (Midnite Movies Double Feature)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 27-JUN-2006
Media Type: DVD

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27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two Great Swashbuckling Sagas!, July 19, 2006

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Luciano Mauro Decusati (porto alegre, RS Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fortunes of Captain Blood / Captain Pirate (Midnite Movies Double Feature) (DVD)

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.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great 50's matinee swash and buckle, August 13, 2006

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William W. Miller (Sparks, NV United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fortunes of Captain Blood / Captain Pirate (Midnite Movies Double Feature) (DVD)

Pristine presentation, though no extras. Two films on two discs follow the adventures of Captain Blood made fameous by Errol Flynn 15 years earlier. Fourtunes of Catain Blood is in black and white while Captain Pirate is in quite glorious color. No Oscar contenders here, but interesting stories, colorful characters, and some pretty good swordplay. Recommended to those who cherished their time as a kid at the Saturday matinee, or those too young to have had the pleasure.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rousing Adventure Yarn, June 16, 2006

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Sixten S (Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fortunes of Captain Blood / Captain Pirate (Midnite Movies Double Feature) (DVD)

Fortunes of Captain Blood:

Rousing Adventure Yarn WITH LOTS OF ACTION, plenty of sword-play, an excellent cast (Macready, Bedoya, Gilmore) and a marvellous musical score by Paul Sawtell.

Captain Pirate: continued good swashbuckling entertainment in technicolor, Louis Hayward starring in both. Both an excellent opportunity to re-enjoy good cinema entertainment of Columbia's golden B-era of the 40's and the 50's. Should be followed by Cornel Wilde ( A Thousand and One Nights, Bandit of Sherwood Forest), Larry Parks (The Swordsman, the Gallant Blade), Jon Hall (Prince of Thieves -48) and John Derek (Rogues of Sherwood Forest, Mask of the Avenger, Prince of Pirates) and many others.

Salute from Sweden