The Black Pirate

(1926)

Color, 92 minutes.

Action / Adventure / Silent

Directed by Albert Parker

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Anders Randolph, Donald Crisp and Sam De Grasse

A certain pirate of the Spanish Main makes a practice of blowing up with all hands the ships he has looted.  By a fluke, one man and his dying father survive such a disaster.  Swearing vengeance, the son joins the pirates.  Soon the ‘black pirate’ swashbuckles his way into their black hearts, capturing a merchantman singlehanded.  Can he now save the life of lovely Isobel?  Can he, opposed by a treacherous rival, rise to lead the pirates and thereby deliver them to justice?