History YMMV / CaptainBlood

* EvilIsSexy: Creator/BasilRathbone's Levasseur is considerably more attractive than the bestial figure described in the novel. Not a few female fans have been known to consider him more attractive than Creator/ErrolFlynn's Peter Blood.

* FoeYay: Levasseur, are you proposing marriage or a criminal partnership there? Every scene they share is basically dripping with homoeroticism. The swordfight makes you wonder whether they couldn't have solved their differences in a more... sensual manner.
* HoYay: The movie alone is homoerotic. The book, on the other hand...
--> "It is time fully to disclose the fact that the survival of the story of Captain Blood's exploits is due entirely to the industry of Jeremy Pitt, the Somersetshire shipmaster. In addition to his ability as a navigator, this amiable young man appears to have wielded an indefatigable pen, and to have been inspired to indulge its fluency by the affection he very obviously bore to Peter Blood."

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The score by Music/ErichWolfgangKorngold.

* TheWoobie: Jeremy Pitt has a tendency to assume this role.

* TheWoobie: Jeremy Pitt has a tendency to assume this role.

* AwardSnub:
** The Academy Awards that year allowed write-in votes. Based on write-ins alone, Creator/MichaelCurtiz would have won the Oscar for best director, but on the night he lost to Creator/JohnFord for his work on ''Film/TheInformer''. Music/ErichWolfgangKorngold and writer Casey Robinson also failed to be properly nominated, though they both received large numbers of postal votes for their work.
** Creator/ErrolFlynn failed to get a Best Actor nomination.

* EvilIsSexy: Basil Rathbone's Levasseur is considerably more attractive than the bestial figure described in the novel. Not a few female fans have been known to consider him more attractive than ErrolFlynn's Peter Blood.

* EvilIsSexy: Creator/BasilRathbone's Levasseur is considerably more attractive than the bestial figure described in the novel. Not a few female fans have been known to consider him more attractive than ErrolFlynn's Peter Blood.

* EvilIsSexy: Basil Rathbone's Levasseur is considerably more attractive than the bestial figure described in the novel. Not a few female fans have been known to consider him more attractive than ErrolFlynn's Peter Blood.

* AwesomeMusic: The score by Creator/ErichWolfgangKorngold.

---> "It is time fully to disclose the fact that the survival of the story of Captain Blood's exploits is due entirely to the industry of Jeremy Pitt, the Somersetshire shipmaster. In addition to his ability as a navigator, this amiable young man appears to have wielded an indefatigable pen, and to have been inspired to indulge its fluency by the affection he very obviously bore to Peter Blood."

* HoYay: The sheer amount of homoeroticism from the whipping scene alone could launch a thousand Peter/Jeremy shippers.

* AcceptableNationalityTargets: The [[UsefulNotes/{{Spain}} Spanish]], particularly in Sabatini's original novel. This may well be because Sabatini was a naturalized British subject, and the British have long kept alive the "black legend" of Spain as an imperialistic Roman Catholic juggernaut sweeping over Europe and threatening England, as in the episode of the Spanish Armada.
** Which is hilarious as Sabatini is less than charitable towards English Protestants in his other works (most notably ''The Tavern Knight'').