The Black Pirate

One of the few surviving silent movies shot entirely in Technicolor, THE BLACK PIRATE was Douglas Fairbanks's only color film as well as his sole pirate movie. If Fairbanks had expended as much effort on the characterizations as he did getting the color right, the picture might have been a true adventure classic.

The only survivors of a pirate attack at sea, Michel (Douglas Fairbanks) and his father find themselves marooned on a desert island. As his dad dies in his arms, Michel swears vengeance. When a group of the pirates arrive on the island to bury treasure, Michel challenges their leader (Anders Randolf) to a duel and kills him. Determined to infiltrate th...