And it's so hard to stick to the movie and not to start singing Sabatini's praises...he was a HECK of a novelist...but I'll be strong...

Doctor Peter Blood escapes from the Jamaican plantation where he is enslaved and captures a ship to go a-rovin' on the high seas, and incidentally wins the woman he loves.

This is arguably the best pirate movie ever. It's certainly one of the best made, and best written. The story is excellent, and (important to me, and unlike The Sea Hawk), sticks closely to the book.

And Errol Flynn. Serious Honey from 1935-1945, when he started to go downhill fast. I spent a summer madly in love with him, when a local tv station had an Errol Flynn Week (yes, this was in the days before home-recordable media, kids) and I watched them all...many movies he made were just awful, especially his later ones, but this was his first, and one of his best.

So shiver me timbers, pull up a binnacle, keel-haul the cats and AAAARGH!, mateys, enjoy the show.