Editing Captain Blood (1935 film) (section)

==Reception==
===Box office===
The film was a box-office success,<ref name="thomas-71-72" /> earning Warner Bros. a profit of $1.462 million.<ref>''Errol & Olivia: Ego & Obsession in Golden Era Hollywood'' by Robert Matzen, 2010</ref> According to Warner Bros., it earned $1,357,000 domestically and $1,733,000 overseas.<ref name="warners" />

===Critical response===
''Captain Blood'' premiered on December 26, 1935 at the [[Mark Strand Theatre]] in New York City<ref name="Brown125">{{cite book |title=Movie Time: A Chronology of Hollywood and the Movie Industry from its Beginnings to the Present |last=Brown |first=Gene |year=1995 |publisher=MacMillan |location=New York |isbn=0-02-860429-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/movietimechronol00brow/page/125 125] |url=https://archive.org/details/movietimechronol00brow/page/125 }}</ref> and was released in the United States on December 28, 1935. The film received positive reviews and notices and wide public approval.<ref name="thomas-71-72">Thomas 1983, pp. 71–72.</ref> However, ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'s'' review cited weaknesses in the storyline:{{blockquote|'Blood' is a spectacular cinematic entry, which, while not flawless, is quite compelling. Its sundry little discrepancies, however, count against a more satisfying final tally. The inconsistencies, while not frequent, are rather prominent and at times irritating. 
As, for instance, the climactic sea battle of the lone pirate ship (Blood's), now a volunteer in the cause of England, against the two French vessels. One French frigate stands idly by until Blood's corsair conquers one and then directs his attack on the other. The finale with the discomfited governor, in whose place Blood is appointed, is rather tent-twent-thirt [excessively melodramatic].

And underlying it all, as a productionary shortcoming, is the false premise of the titular Capt. Blood. Here is a gallant, engaging young blade who, under pirate's colors, repels the very aspects which first cement his brave appeal.<ref name=Variety>[https://archive.org/stream/variety121-1936-01#page/n43/mode/2up "CAPTAIN BLOOD"], film review, ''Variety'', New York, N.Y., January 1, 1936, page 44; retrieved December 22, 2017. The compound adjective "tent-twent-thirt" in ''Variety'''s review derives from theatrical slang for "ten-twenty-thirty", which was once used to describe the early vaudevillian shows and other staged productions that were distinguished by their cheap admission prices (ten, twenty, or thirty cents) and by their highly melodramatic storylines or by characters displaying exaggerated emotions and actions.</ref>}}

Despite also finding flaws in the "scripting" of ''Captain Blood'' and in the presentation of some battle sequences, ''Variety'' called Flynn's performance "impressive" and predicted that his work in the film would provide him with "future big marquee values."<ref name=Variety/>

Writing for ''[[The Spectator]]'' in 1936, [[Graham Greene]] offered a tepid review, describing the film as his favorite of those that he had reviewed that week but describing it as "a fine spirited mix-up" and noting the "magnificently wrong characterization" of King James. Greene also wrote that much of the film included anachronistic details related to clothing and setting.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Greene|first= Graham|author-link= Graham Greene|date= 21 February 1936|title= I Dream Too Much/Anything Goes/Faust/Hohe Schule/Captain Blood|journal= [[The Spectator]]}} (reprinted in: {{cite book|editor-last= Taylor|editor-first= John Russell|editor-link= John Russell Taylor|date= 1980|title= The Pleasure Dome|url= https://archive.org/details/pleasuredomegrah00gree/page/54|page= [https://archive.org/details/pleasuredomegrah00gree/page/54 54]|publisher= Oxford University Press|isbn= 0192812866}})</ref>

''[[FilmInk|Filmink]]'' magazine later wrote: "Flynn was lucky – not just in being at the right place at the right time with the right lack of competition, but with his collaborators on Captain Blood."<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|magazine=Filmink|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/films-errol-flynn-2/|title=The Films of Errol Flynn: Part 2 The Golden Years |date=November 10, 2019}}</ref>

===Awards and honors===
The film was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]] and, despite not being nominated, [[Michael Curtiz]] received the second-highest number of votes for [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] as a write-in candidate. Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Casey Robinson, also unnominated, received substantially more write-in votes than did most of the official nominees.

The film was also nominated in the categories [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Music (Scoring)]], [[Academy Award for Best Sound|Sound Recording]] ([[Nathan Levinson]]) and [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Writing (Screenplay)]].<ref name="oscars-1936">{{Cite web|title=The 8th Academy Awards (1936) Nominees and Winners |work=The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1936 |access-date=August 7, 2011}}</ref>

''Captain Blood'' has been recognized by the [[American Film Institute]] in these lists:
* 2001: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills]] – Nominated<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/thrills400.pdf |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills Nominees |access-date=August 20, 2016 |archive-date=June 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630082934/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/thrills400.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2003: [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains]]:
** Peter Blood – Nominated Hero<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/handv400.pdf |title=AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains Nominees |access-date=August 20, 2016 |archive-date=March 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110313150527/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/handv400.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 2005: [[AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores]] – Nominated<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/Docs/100Years/scores250.pdf |title=AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores Nominees |access-date=August 20, 2016 |archive-date=November 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106023410/http://www.afi.com/Docs/100years/scores250.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Cultural references===
A clip of the film was used in the 1985 film ''[[The Goonies]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026174/movieconnections|title = Captain Blood (1935) - IMDb|website = [[IMDb]]}}</ref>