Albert Parker
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American film director, born in 1885. He began as an actor before moving to directing in the 1910s and made a string of silent features through the 1920s. His best-remembered film is The Black Pirate (1926), the Douglas Fairbanks two-strip Technicolor adventure. He later moved into film distribution and exhibition. He died in 1974.
Directed
Mystery, Silent
The 1922 Sherlock Holmes stars John Barrymore as Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective in one of the earliest surviving feature-length adaptations of the character. Roland Young, later famous for the Topper films, plays Dr. Watson, while Gustav von Seyffertitz portrays Moriarty. A young William Powell appears in a supporting role, years before his own stardom. Produced by Goldwyn Pictures and directed by Albert Parker, the film was long considered lost until a print was recovered in the 1970s. As a work published before 1930, it is in the public domain in the United States.
Mystery · Silent
Sherlock Holmes
1922 - Mystery
Adventure, Action
A nobleman's son vows revenge after pirates murder his father, so he infiltrates the pirate band to destroy it from within. Douglas Fairbanks produced, starred in, and drove this swashbuckler, performing his own stunts including the famous slide down a sail on the point of a knife. The film is one of the earliest feature-length pictures shot entirely in two-strip Technicolor, and the limited red-and-green palette gives it a storybook look unlike anything else from the silent era. Fairbanks pushed the budget to roughly $1.3 million, an enormous sum at the time, which limited the profit even though the picture was a hit. The Black Pirate is a landmark of color filmmaking and one of the great action spectacles of the 1920s. It entered the public domain in the United States in 2022.
Adventure · Action · Silent
The Black Pirate
1926 - Adventure
