Captain Blood Returns

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Captain Blood Returns
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First US edition
Author Rafael Sabatini
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical
Adventure
Publisher Houghton Mifflin (US)
Publication date
1931
Media typePrint
Preceded by Captain Blood, His Odyssey  
Followed by The Fortunes of Captain Blood  

Captain Blood Returns is a 1931 British historical adventure novel by the Anglo-Italian writer Rafael Sabatini. It is the second in Sabatini's trilogy about the character after Captain Blood (1922) and was followed by The Fortunes of Captain Blood (1936).

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Film adaptation

The novel provided a loose inspiration for the 1952 film Captain Pirate made by Columbia Pictures and starring Louis Hayward and Patricia Medina. [1] This was made as a sequel to the 1950 film Fortunes of Captain Blood .

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