The Black Pirate

Seeking revenge, an athletic young man joins the pirate band responsible for his father's death.

"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 "Toll of the Sea". This reproduces a limited but pleasing range of colors. "Ben-Hur", filmed around the same time, contains two-tone sequences but is shot primarily in black-and-white with tinting and toning in many scenes.

This is really a defining film in the career of Douglas Fairbanks. I mean, really, it is closing in 100 years later and he is still remembered as a swashbuckler. This is the very definition of a swashbuckler film. And the color! I couldn't say much about the two-color process, but I think this looks phenomenal.