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Albert Parker, Fairbanks, United Artists, 1926. Fairbanks is a duke who joins a pirate crew to avenge a wreck, billed as the Black Pirate. Billie Dove is the captive princess. Shot in two-color Technicolor; Fairbanks wanted the Howard Pyle plates, and Henry Sharp photographed toward that palette. The sliding down a sail on a knife was the stunt the ads sold. About ninety-four minutes. The AFI notes the Technicolor as the point of the production as much as the plot. A revenge picture that looks hand-tinted even when it is not.
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Two-color Technicolor as the point of the production. Fairbanks wanted Howard Pyle's plates and shot toward them. The slide down the sail on a knife was the stunt the ads sold, and it was done for real. A revenge plot that looks hand-tinted.
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