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The
Black Pirate (1926) – A. Parker
Doug Fairbanks leaps and bounds and
slides down the rigging in this early two-strip Technicolor swashbuckler. Sure, it has a bunch of pirate clichés
(buried treasure, walking the plank) and lots of swordplay but it also seems to
lag sometimes. The early color
processing leaves things a bit more red and green than we are used to –
especially in the outdoor shots. Doug
swears to defeat the pirates after they capture his ship and kill his father,
so he does what anyone would do – he joins up to defeat them from the
inside. In the process, he also has to
rescue Billie Dove who is on the next ship they capture – of course, he marries
her in the end (when they are both revealed to be royalty). A bit of fun for Doug’s fans but nowhere near
as good as The Thief of Bagdad (1924).
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