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The Black Pirate is a 1926 American silent action adventure film shot entirely in two-color Technicolor about an adventurer and a "company" of pirates. Directed by Albert Parker, it stars Douglas Fairbanks, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse, and Billie Dove.
The Black Pirate: Directed by Albert Parker. With Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse. Seeking revenge, an athletic young man joins the pirate band responsible for his father's death.
The Black Pirate remains a landmark achievement in the advancement of cinema as an art form and the definitive pirate film of the silent era. The film is also a wonderful showcase for Fairbanks as a leader in the film industry and one of the most creative producers Hollywood has ever known.
Jan 16, 2015 · One of the silent era’s most spectacular action blockbusters, The Black Pirate also boasts an experimental early Technicolor process, making it one of the only color silent...
Sep 29, 2023 · The swashbuckling romp The Black Pirate is not only one of Douglas Fairbanks’ most rousing silent features of the 1920s, but it is also one of his greatest creative triumphs.
Father-and-son survivors of noble birth wash ashore of an island, and the injured father perishes. The son (Douglas Fairbanks) promises to seek revenge by infiltrating the same band of buccaneers...
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The Black Pirate is a 1926 American silent action adventure film shot entirely in two-color Technicolor about an adventurer and a "company" of pirates. Directed by Albert Parker, it stars Douglas Fairbanks, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse, and Billie Dove.
Screenshots. The Black Pirate (1926) In this landmark, silent two-strip Technicolored classic swashbuckler buccaneer tale by director Albert Parker, one of the first great pirate movies: the greatest rapier and dagger dueling scene ever captured between a pirate captain (Anders Randolf) and vengeful "Michel" - the Black Pirate (aka The Duke of ...
A Spanish vessel is captured on the high seas by pirates who bind the crew and loot and blow up the ship. The only survivors are Michel and his father: they are marooned on a desert island, and when his father dies, Michel swears to avenge his death.
“The Black Pirate” has made its journey into history by way of two mechanisms: it is the first major feature to be filmed in Technicolor, and it contains the most famous stunt of its ever-joyous star/ producer, Douglas Fairbanks. Herbert Thomas Kalmus founded the Technicolor Corporation in 1915.
