The Black Pirate

The Duke of Arnoldo often referred as the The Black Pirate is the titular anti-heroic protagonist of the 1926 silent film The Black Pirate. He's the long-lost Duke of his homeland who was one of the sole survivors of a pirate attack. After his father's untimely passing, he swears upon his father's grave to avenge his death.
He was portrayed by the late Douglas Fairbanks.
== Biography ==
The Duke was one of only two survivors (along side his father) of a brutal raid by a pirate gang who blew the ship up and killed most of the inmates. After he escapes with his father on an island, the father shortly passes away, leaving his son to bury his father and vow to avenge him. Ironicly enough, the pirate gang responsible for the raid happened to arrive on the same island to bury the treasure they captured. The Duke decides he wants to join the pirate gang, but the pirate captain and lieutenant state he has to prove himself worthy of a spot on the crew. He decides to challenge the crew's best swordsman to a duel — the captain — and takes him down and kills him with ease. The pirate crew's impressed, but the lieutenant's not convinced just yet.
The Duke decides he'd single-handedly take a Spanish ship on, to further prove his value. He'd make his way onto the ship, using a sail to fly into the rigging, and slicing his way down the sails and holding the entire Spanish crew at cannon-point. Unfortunately, The Duke's plan his foiled when the pirates resort to their usual looting tactics. They'd come across a princess, and as the Duke officially takes up the alias of "The Black Pirate", he convinces the pirates to take both the ship and the princess hostage, although the lieutenant has ... other plans for the princess.
Although, The Black Pirate tries to go behind the pirate crew's backs and rescue the princess from being held hostage, and improvises his way through some tight scrapes. Unfortunately the lieutenant was one step ahead of him all along, and forced the Black Pirate to walk the plank — as many other pirates do. He falls off the plank and survives the depths of the waters. Swimming ashore, he'd return with a boatload of men to rescue the princess; the crew scuttle the ship, and, swimming underwater, The Black Pirate and his men storm the pirate vessel and capture it. The Black Pirate reveals that he is a Spanish duke and offers his hand in marriage to The Princess, which she accepts.
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