The Black Pirate

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Call Number: Blu-ray Silent-Film Black
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor 1-week checkout	Blu-ray Silent-Film Black	1-week checkout	On Shelf

Originally released as a motion picture in 1926.
Special features: Restored two-strip technicolor version mastered in high definition; original 1926 score by Mortimer Wilson, conducted by Robert Israel; Organ score by Lee Erwin; audio commentary soundtrack by film historian Rudy Behlmer; complete "talkie" version minus intertitles (75 min.), with orchestral score and narration by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; 29 minutes of additional outtakes, courtesy of the Library of Congress; photo gallery.
Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempé Pigott, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse, Anders Randolf.
In the first grand-scale epic shot entirely in Technicolor, Michel is the sole survivor of a ship pillaged by buccaneers. He poses as the mysterious Black Pirate and infiltrates the nest of bandits. Michel then mounts an elaborate ploy to recover the brigands' treasure, reclaim the ship, and rescue the divine princess held captive there.
Blu-ray disc; 1920 x 1088p; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; stereo. sound; requires Blu-ray player.

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