Performers Risked Injuries

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18975, 27 March 1936, Page 13

Performers Risked Injuries

j CVEP.Y player who took part in the ; battle scenes of the pirate picture '"Captain Blood" understood that he took a one to three chance of being I hurt. "Captain Blood" is a story of violence and death defying adventure on the high seas, 'and the director, Michael Curtiz, i.s known to be u stickler for realism. It seemed inevitable that at least a fourth of the actors involved would bo injured one . way or another. j It was necessary for them to risk ' their necks under falling spars, in hand to hand sword duels, and on , swinging ropes which carried them j from one ship to another during a : boarding battle. They braved the danger of flaming-bits of wreckage dropped on them from above and they stood staunchly on the furiously burning deck of the good ship Arabella, waiting for orders to "abandon ship."

chor Christian and Midshipman Byam that caused Lloyd no end of worry. Finally his eye alighted on Mamo Clark," a lovely'Tahitian girl, who was a law student at the University of California. As a result of screen tests his selection was justified, for no other girl yet seen on the screen could have played her particular role with such charm and naivete. The other little lady, Movita Castaneda, is also a native-born Tahitian, as lovely of face and physique as any Hollywood actress. "She was discovered in a cabaret by the director, who immediately recognised that she was the ideal typo of portray the wife of Midshipman Byam upon the island of Tahiti.