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| Category | Action/Adventure DVDs, Adventure Movies, Classic Videos, Vintage, Heroes, Silent Cinema, Epic, Silent Films, Rescue, High Seas, Pirates, Swashbuckler, 1920s | | Starring | Douglas Fairbanks, Donald Crisp, Charles Belcher, Sam De Grasse, Billie Dove, Anders Randolf, Charles Stevens, Tempe Piggot | | Director | Albert Parker | | Composer | Mortimer Wilson | | Director of Photography | Henry Sharp | | Editor | William Nolan | | Producer | Douglas Fairbanks | | Production Designer | Carl Oscar Borg | | Screenwriter | Douglas Fairbanks, Jack Cunningham |
The first grand-scale epic shot entirely in Technicolor. Fairbanks stars as Michel, the sole survivor of a ship pillaged by buccaneers. The silent film also stars Billie Dove, directed by Albert Parker. Special features inlcude 19 minutes of rare outtake footage, audio commentary by Rudy Behlmer. This swashbuckling nautical adventure, starring the incomparable Douglas Fairbanks, made film history as one of the first full features shot entirely in Technicolor. Here, he plays a nobleman who wants to revenge his father's murder, so he boards a pirate vessel disguised as one of the thieving, villainous rapscallions, and sets about achieving his goal. On the high seas, the athletic Fairbanks provides a no-holds barred, rip-roaring, stunt-filled voyage -- complete with a one-man takeover of a merchant ship. THE BLACK PIRATE was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1993.
THE BLACK PIRATE was the first feature film shot in 2-strip Technicolor, but many surviving copies are in black & white.
According to Variety, Elton Thomas (who came up with the film's story) was actually Fairbanks himself.
Additional production company: Elton Corp.
Copyright 1926 Elton Corporation. Black Pirate Reviews: "...Color rarely looks this good on a movie this old..."
-- Mike Clark, USA Today Black Pirate | List Price | $29.95 (You save $7.86) | | Studio | Kino on Video | | Orig Year | 1926 | | All Time Sales Rank |  69840  | | CD Universe Part number | 6652158 | | Catalog number | 3302 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 03, 2004 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Also Known As | Black Buccaneer | | Running Time | 90 Minutes | | Additional Info | Silent | | Movie Details | Color; Silent |
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