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The Black Pirate
Director: Albert Parker (Dir)
Release Date:   1926
Premiere Information:   New York premiere: 8 Mar 1926
Duration (in feet):   8,490
Duration (in reels):   9
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Cast:   Douglas Fairbanks (The Black Pirate [Michel])  
    Billie Dove (The Princess)  
    Anders Randolf (Pirate leader)  
    Donald Crisp (McTavish)  
    Tempe Pigott (Duenna)  
    Sam De Grasse (Lieutenant)  
    Charles Stevens (Powder man)  
    Charles Belcher (Chief passenger)  
    Fred Becker    
    John Wallace    
    E. J. Ratcliffe    
Summary: A Spanish vessel is captured on the high seas by pirates who bind the crew and loot and blow up the ship. The only survivors are Michel and his father: they are marooned on a desert island, and when his father dies, Michel swears to avenge his death. He joins a pirate band and proves himself by capturing a merchant ship singlehanded; thereafter, he is known as The Black Pirate. Falling in love with a girl (The Princess) on the captured ship, he saves her by keeping her hostage and holding her for ransom, but he is caught in an attempt to escape and is forced to walk the plank. Swimming ashore, he returns with a boatload of men to rescue The Princess; the crew scuttle the ship, and, swimming underwater, Michel and his men storm the pirate vessel and capture it. Michel reveals that he is a Spanish duke and offers his hand in marriage to The Princess, which she accepts. 
Production Company: Elton Corp.  
Distribution Company: United Artists  
Director: Albert Parker (Dir)
Producer: Robert Fairbanks (Gen mgr)
Writer: Jack Cunningham (Adpt)
  Elton Thomas (Story)
  Lotta Woods (Scenario ed)
Photography: Henry Sharp (Dir of photog)
Art Direction: Carl Oscar Borg (Art dir)
  Edward M. Langley (Assoc artists)
  Jack Holden (Assoc artists)
  Arthur Woods (Research dir)
  Dwight Franklin (Consultant)
  Robert Nicholls (Consultant)
Film Editor: William Nolan (Film ed)
Set Decoration: Karl Oscar Borg (Set dec)
Music: Mortimer Wilson (Mus score)
Production Misc: Theodore Reed (Prod mgr)
  P. H. L. Wilson (Marine technician)
Color Personnel: Arthur Ball (Technicolor staff)
  George Cave (Technicolor staff)
Country: United States
Language: English
Copyright Claimant Copyright Date Copyright Number
Elton Corp. 20/3/1926 dd/mm/yyyy LP22505
Physical Properties: col: Technicolor
  Si:
 
Genre: Adventure
 
Subjects (Major): Nobility
  Pirates
  Ransom
  Sailors
  Spain
Bibliographic Sources:   Date   Page
Film Daily   21 Mar 1926   p. 6.
Life   25 Mar 1926   p. 26.
MPN   4 Dec 1926   p. 2141-42.
New York Times   9 Mar 1926   p. 21.
Photoplay   May 1926   p. 48.
Variety   10 Mar 1926   p. 21.
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