The Black Pirate

Albert Parker, Fairbanks, United Artists, 1926. Fairbanks is a duke who joins a pirate crew to avenge a wreck, billed as the Black Pirate. Billie Dove is the captive princess. Shot in two-color Technicolor; Fairbanks wanted the Howard Pyle plates, and Henry Sharp photographed toward that palette. The sliding down a sail on a knife was the stunt the ads sold. About ninety-four minutes. The AFI notes the Technicolor as the point of the production as much as the plot. A revenge picture that looks hand-tinted even when it is not.