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

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated