The Black Pirate
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. In 1993, The Black Pirate was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures to be added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Plot
Pirates capture, badly maul and loot a ship. After relieving the ship and crew of valuables, the pirates fire the ship, blowing up the gunpowder on board, sinking her. While the pirates celebrate, two survivors wash up on an island, an old man and his son. Before dying, the older man gives his signet ring to his son. His son buries him, vowing vengeance.
More details
| author | Jack Cunningham |
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| director | Albert Parker |
| events | sea piracy |
| genre | action adventure historical |
| keywords | best man end fight love at first sight old man signet ring walk the plank walking the plank |
| musicBy | Mortimer Wilson |
| producer | Douglas Fairbanks |
| productionCompany | Technicolor |
| publisher | United Artists |
| theme | silent swashbuckler |