Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Captain Blood, N.C. Wyeth

Captain Blood, N.C. Wyeth
We watched The Black Swan this weekend — no, not the one with too many Natalie Portmans — a 1942 pirate swashbuckler starring Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara. I'd been reading a lot of Rafael Sabatini lately and, though I hadn't read this book yet, I was in the mood for escaping reality. It was a lot of fun though, as I discovered afterward, not nearly as good as the book. I'm so glad I encountered the movie first.

Tom was looking around and came across this wonderful cover by N.C. Wyeth for Sabatini's more famous pirate tale. (Not my fave, but to each his own.) The look of the movie was as if it had been lifted from this cover, which was a wise choice if that's what happened.

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