The Black Pirate

1926

Action / Adventure

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 61 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 67% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 2425 2.4K

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Plot summary

A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he single-handedly captures a merchant vessel, but things are complicated when he finds that there is a beautiful young woman of royal blood aboard.

Director

Albert Parker Photo
Albert Parker

Top cast

E.J. Ratcliffe Photo
E.J. Ratcliffe as The Governor
James Dime Photo
James Dime as Pirate
Donald Crisp Photo
Donald Crisp as MacTavish
Mary Pickford Photo
Mary Pickford as Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
876.19 MB
962*720
English 2.0
Not Rated
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds ...
1.59 GB
1444*1080
English 2.0
Not Rated
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

Still at the top his game, Douglas Fairbanks

Still at the top his game, Douglas Fairbanks is the eponymous character - but with a bit of an unlikely backstory. He and his father were lucky to survive a pirate attack on their ship, his dad perishes shortly afterwards and our hero decides to avenge himself on these reprobates by infiltrating and rising through their ranks. His cunning plan is sailing along nicely until they capture the beautiful Princess "Isobel" (Billie Dove) to whom he takes an immediate shine and has to shield from the worst (and potentially violent) excesses of his lascivious shipmates. It's got just about every pirate adventure theme going - walking the plank, buried treasure, duplicitous plotting - and enough swash and buckle to last a lifetime. Albert Parker keeps the pace rollicking along with a deliciously ghastly contribution from Sam de Grasse and an early(ish) outing for Donald Crisp ("MacTavish") with John Wallace doing his best "Long John Silver" impersonation too. The romance is managed within the storyline, it adds a gentle richness to the mixture without cluttering up what is essentially a sumptuous high seas adventure yarn with some super seaborne colour photography, pyrotechnics and style.
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Reviewed by gavin6942 7 / 10

A Silent Masterpiece

Seeking revenge, an athletic young man joins the pirate band responsible for his father's death.

"The Black Pirate" was the third feature to be filmed in an early two-tone Technicolor process that had been first introduced in the 1922 feature "Toll of the Sea". This reproduces a limited but pleasing range of colors. "Ben-Hur", filmed around the same time, contains two-tone sequences but is shot primarily in black-and-white with tinting and toning in many scenes.

This is really a defining film in the career of Douglas Fairbanks. I mean, really, it is closing in 100 years later and he is still remembered as a swashbuckler. This is the very definition of a swashbuckler film. And the color! I couldn't say much about the two-color process, but I think this looks phenomenal.

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