The film begins with the looting of a ship, already captured and badly mauled, by the pirates. After relieving the ship and crew of valuables, the pirates … See more

• Douglas Fairbanks as The Duke of Arnoldo / The Black Pirate
• Billie Dove as Princess Isobel
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The Black Pirate was the third feature to be filmed in an early two-tone Technicolor process that had been first introduced in the 1922 feature The Toll of the Sea. This reproduces a … See more

• The sail-sliding scene was replicated in other pirate-themed media, including Against All Flags, Rage of the Buccaneers, See more

Donald Crisp (MacTavish) had directed Fairbanks' Don Q, Son of Zorro (1925) in addition to playing the villain in that film. Crisp, who had … See more

Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance maintains that “The Black Pirate was the most carefully prepared and controlled work of Fairbanks’s entire career” and “the most important … See more

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