I read Captain Blood and the Errol Flynn movie followed it quite closely.
You’re the first to say that that I ever heard, and I can see it on some level. I compared the Wiki articles one for the book and one for the movie and found I agreed with each. Here I offer you a book review from a blog called “booklearned”. Notice how because of the movie he expected a “dime novel melodrama” but was pleasantly surprised when he read the book.
https://booklearned.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/book-review-captain-blood/
This is what I am used to. I have found that people who enjoy the movie are not inclined to take the book seriously. They both “work” in their respective spheres except today people are less inclined to be impressed by such a melodrama as Captain Blood. It was a remake of a silent film, which worked very well in its time, there was a radio adaptation with Erroll Flynn reprising his role, which was very good too.
Have you read any other Sabatini works?
I have read them all and many of them twice or three times.
I have read three Jack Reacher books, meh okay don’ need no more. I read two lawyer “page turners” by Grisham, had enough of that.
Our english teacher at the Christian School used a collection of Sabatinin novels as a reward for the boys in his classes. If you performed better than expected on a test or paper you were granted the privilege of borrowing one of his Sabatinis.