Screenplay: Rafael Sabatini
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Rafael Sabatini. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Scaramouche
1952 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction George Sidney
Cast Stewart Granger · Eleanor Parker · Janet Leigh · Mel Ferrer
Plot In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.
7.5
4K votes
7.5
4K votes
Captain Blood
1935 · Movie · 114 min. · United States
Direction Michael Curtiz
Cast Errol Flynn · Olivia de Havilland · Lionel Atwill · Basil Rathbone
Plot The quintessential swashbuckler. Irsih doctor Peter Blood is wrongly sentenced to deportation and slavery to the Caribbean. There he amuses himself with insults at DE Havilland. He plans an escape...
7.3
8K votes
7.3
8K votes
The Black Swan
1942 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Henry King
Cast Tyrone Power · Maureen O'Hara · Laird Cregar · Thomas Mitchell
Plot Soon after Sir Henry Morgan is named Governor of Jamaica in 1674, he announces that the age of the pirate is over and asks his former captains to give up...
6.8
2K votes
6.8
2K votes
Bardelys the Magnificent
1926 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor
Cast John Gilbert · Eleanor Boardman · Roy D'Arcy · Lionel Belmore
Plot Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to...
6.5
27 votes
6.5
27 votes
La máscara de Scaramouche
1963 · Movie · 98 min. · Spain
Direction Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi
Cast Gerard Barray · Xan das Bolas · Rafael Bruguera · Gianna Maria Canale
5.6
116 votes
5.6
116 votes
Fortunes Of Captain Blood
1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction Gordon Douglas
Cast Louis Hayward · Patricia Medina · George Macready · Alfonso Bedoya
Plot When he unwittingly sends some of his men into a trap, pirate Captain Peter Blood decides to rescue them. They've been taken prisoner by the Spanish Marquis de Riconete who...
5.0
31 votes
5.0
31 votes
Christopher Columbus
1949 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David MacDonald
Cast Fredric March · Florence Eldridge · Francis L. Sullivan · Kathleen Ryan
Plot Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
4.9
21 votes
4.9
21 votes
The Son of Captain Blood
1962 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy
Direction Tulio Demicheli
Cast Sean Flynn · Alessandra Panaro · John Kitzmiller · José Nieto
Plot The son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful young woman.
4.2
79 votes
4.2
79 votes
The Sea Hawk
1924 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Frank Lloyd
Cast Milton Sills · Enid Bennett · Lloyd Hughes · Wallace Beery
Plot The adventures of Oliver Tressilian, who goes from English gentry to galley slave to captain of a Moorish fighting ship, all the while trying to regain his lady love. Follows...
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Captain Blood
1924 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction David Smith · Albert E. Smith
Cast J. Warren Kerrigan · Jean Paige · Charlotte Merriam · James Morrison
Plot Peter Blood, a young Irish physician, treats a rebel soldier wounded in battle, and he is arrested, tried for treason and sent into slavery to Barbados. He and his friend...
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Scaramouche
1923 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Rex Ingram
Cast Lloyd Ingraham · Alice Terry · Ramon Novarro · Lewis Stone
Plot A law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend...
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Captain Pirate
1952 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Ralph Murphy
Cast Louis Hayward · Patricia Medina · John Sutton · Charles Irwin
Plot In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on...
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