Look behind you, a Three-Headed Monkey!
The complete list of fantastic, swashbuckling pirate adventures for all ye scurrrvy landlubbers and sea dogs alike.
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- The first scene shows what is supposed to be the rendezvous of the pirate crew, where Captain Kid and his band, burlesqued, are enjoying such ferocious sport as tapping the beer keg, etc. Under the influence of what comes from the bunghole the men again and again swear allegiance to their noble captain. The next scene shows Heinie and Louie shipwrecked, floating on the waves and holding on to their only earthly possession which consists of a treasure chest loaded with the most approved variety of sausages. They manage to hold their own for a time but gradually show signs of distress, and when it seems as if the Dutchmen and their precious load are about to go down, they are rescued by the redoubtable Captain Kid and his crew. The charming antics of the adventurers impress the captain with heir eligibility to membership in the land and their initiation is next in order. The test includes a demonstration of their prowess with the cutlass and their performance meets with the approval of the committee. As another feature of the initiation Heinie walks the plank in the most approved style, and after various other stunts the courageous duo are admitted to full-fledged membership, and they swear allegiance to the black flag with the skull and cross-bones.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsGeorge GebhardtLinda ArvidsonCharles InsleeYoung Wilkinson is leaving his dear old mother for a journey to seek his fortune in a foreign clime. Now, the little cottage is situated near the coast. The waters of the sea have been infested with a band of gold-thirsty pirates, who pillaged every ship that came their way. Having successfully perpetuated one of their nefarious exploits, they are struck by a storm and forced to put out from their floundering vessel in a small yawl, in which they place a chest of valuables, for the shore. Thrown up on the coast by the voluminous waves, they disembark; there are three of them, the chief and two underlings. Taking the chest to a place of safety, they proceed to divide the spoils. A contention arises, and the two turn on their chief, who strikes down one of them at once, but is stabbed in the back by the other, whom he afterwards strangles. Gathering up the treasure, he struggles along, his life's blood oozing from the wound inflicted by the mutinous pirate, until he comes to the cottage of Wilkinson. A terrific storm is still raging and the poor old mother is trying to shut out the force of the gale when the chief staggers in. He begs her to hide the gold, which she does by dislodging several bricks in the fireplace and placing the treasure behind them. This is hardly done when the pirate chief drops dead from the loss of blood and the poor woman is felled by lightning. Hence, the hiding place is seemingly an eternal secret. What a sad home-coming it is for the son, after his success abroad. A year later, however, we find him a happy bridegroom and the sun again shines on the household. But eight years later he is stricken ill, with nothing in store for his wife and little one. The process server has seized the effects, and despondingly he goes to the kitchen to put an end to his unendurable existence. The good wife, suspicious, follows and just as he puts a pistol to his head she strikes his arm, causing the bullet to crash into the fireplace, splintering the bricks and disinterring the hidden treasure.
- DirectorVictorin-Hippolyte JassetStarsCharles KraussA French sea captain insults the honor of a young pirate's sweetheart. As you may expect, there will be repercussions.
- DirectorFrancis BoggsStarsSydney AyresHobart BosworthTom SantschiBlackbeard sacks the town and takes the governor and his family prisoners. A maid helps the governor escape. A British Man O' War arrives, rescuing the governor and leading a daring attack on the pirate ship to rescue the others.
- DirectorJ. Searle DawleyStarsAddison RothermelLaura SawyerBen F. WilsonYoung Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- DirectorOtis TurnerStarsDavid HartfordCleo MadisonHoward HickmanThe story, in brief, relates to that famous character of history, Captain Kidd, from the time he became a pirate until his fall. According to history he was sent out to subdue piracy by King William III of England, who had heard of this captain's ability in combating these wolves of the marine commerce. Kidd starts out with good impulses. A misunderstanding with his sweetheart, whom he was about to marry, changed the tenure of his life, from a law-abiding citizen he suddenly was transformed into a fiend. He embarked with embittered thoughts that soon answered the summons of rancor. He fell for the temptation to reap an easy fortune through piracy. Ever actuated by the gnawings of a self-imposed broken heart, Kidd ruled with unpitying hand. A poor wretch, one of his own crew, whom he had ordered thrown overboard for no reason whatever nearly caused Kidd's downfall. In the meantime Peggy, his sweetheart, had pined through sorrow. The American shores invited. It was thought a change would do her good and she embarked with her father. Through a strange act of fate this ship fell a prey to the ever watchful eye of Kidd's crew. Battle and carnage reigned. Peggy recognized her old sweetheart directing the killing. When he finds her she has been mortally wounded. Gathering her in his strong arms he totters with unseeing eyes to the forward deck, where she dies. The man whose life had been seared through his own jealous nature becomes again as a child with a grief that was simple and sincere.
- DirectorGiovanni PastroneStarsItalia Almirante-ManziniLidia QuarantaBartolomeo PaganoCabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, she is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war.
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierDonald MacKenzieStarsPearl WhiteCrane WilburPaul PanzerPauline, a young maiden, must protect herself from the treacherous "guardian" of her inheritance, who repeatedly plots to murder her and take the money for himself.
- DirectorAllen CurtisStarsMax AsherBobby VernonLouise FazendaTwo lovers, Johnnie and Lucy, desire to wed. Lucy's dad. however, has first to be shown that John has enough worldly goods to be worthy of his daughter's hand. John brings his wealth in a steel-bound chest. The richness of the contents of this chest amazes dad and he gives his eager consent. Just at this time Capt. Kidd puts ashore to raze the town. The first inhabitant Kidd meets is old Hezekiah, the village sot, who to save his skin leads them to John's treasure chest. Kidd captures Lucy and drags her with the treasure chest to the pirate ship. Here the chest is opened. John comes aboard to rescue Lucy. A bloody battle ensues. All the pirates are slain except Kidd and two of the crew. John and Lucy escape. Kidd and his two survivors put ashore with the chest, which they bury. Kidd makes a plan of the spot. His two men then do away with themselves. Kidd becomes poisoned by drinking water and dies in the house of John and Lucy, first secretly hiding the plan where the treasure is buried. Two hundred years later we find the descendants of John and Lucy still occupying the same house. Having a hard run with poverty, they are about to be ousted by the sheriff when, quite by accident, Capt. Kidd's old plan of the burial place of the treasure is found. The shovel brigade concentrates about the spot. Happily the treasure is discovered by the descendants of the original John and Lucy. They need never fear poverty now, for the chest was found to contain "the fruit of hen, the most costly food in the realm of men."
- StarsRex BeachScenes from an expedition headed by Dr. Edward A. Salisbury to Central and South America.
- DirectorEdward A. SalisburyStarsRex BeachEdward A. SalisburyScenes from an expedition headed by Dr. Edward A. Salisbury to Central and South America.
- DirectorEdward A. SalisburyStarsRex BeachScenes from an expedition headed by Dr. Edward A. Salisbury to Central and South America.
- DirectorChester M. FranklinSidney FranklinStarsViolet Radcliffe'Baby' Carmen De RueHarry EssmanWaldo and the baby go on an outing to the beach with their nurse, but Waldo just consumes much learning from his book wherever he goes or wanders. Nurse goes off with the auto driver and leaves the studious one in charge of the baby. This gives Bob and Tilly a chance. Bob is a pirate chief and his crew consists of Tilly and two Black slaves, Rastus and Dave. Waldo would not think of playing pirates, but he becomes part of the game all right. They bind him in their pirate cave and sail away for the sea with the baby. But the pirate brig is a leaky motorboat that runs away out to sea. Bold pirates become frightened ones when the runaway boat also starts to leak, but when the nurse returns and learns what her neglect led to, assistance is soon sent to the pirates.
- DirectorWilliam ParkeStarsGladys HuletteFlora FinchRiley ChamberlinTo her aunt's dismay, Prudence isn't interested in society life. She'd rather listen to the butler's tall tales of being a pirate. Nixed from a boat trip, she rents a schooner, recruits a crew and raises the jolly roger.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsLillian GishElliott DexterWalter LongPhilip de Mornay, a courtier in the French royal court of the 18th century, falls in love with Daphne La Tour, the daughter of a nobleman. Knowing that her family would never approve of their marriage, he takes her and hides her in a brothel, but is soon captured by pirates. Soldiers looking for women to bring with them to a settlement across the ocean in Louisiana raid the brothel and take the girls, including Daphne. Later on the trip to the new world their ship is attacked by pirates--and she discovers that her lover Philip is on board the pirate ship.
- DirectorChester M. FranklinSidney FranklinStarsFrancis CarpenterVirginia Lee CorbinViolet RadcliffeYoung Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
- DirectorRobert DillonStarsPat RooneyKewpie MorganMary HainesThe Pirate Chief (Pat Rooney) and his Flunky (Kewpie Morgan) are marooned and cast ashore on a cannibal island. The Flunky is caught and made King by the Cannibal Queen (Mary Haines) and he makes the Pirate work for him. The Pirate connives with the Councillor and the Flunky is captured. But the Pirate is also captured and given his choice of marrying the Queen or death in a boiling pot. The Flunky escapes in a boat. The Pirate chooses getting boiled over marrying the Queen. A stick of dynamite is placed under the pot and blows the Pirate onto the boat with the Flunky.
- DirectorRollin S. SturgeonStarsJuliette DayCharles MarriottJoe KingBetty, the daughter of a retired professor and a romantic dreamer, craves excitement and adventure. Captain Tobias Crook, a mariner, seizes upon her longings to induce the professor to finance and accompany him on a lost treasure hunt. Dick Winthrop is very interested in these plans because he is a Secret Service agent on the trail of Crook, who is in the business of promoting these expeditions and then marooning his investors on desolate islands. Living up to his reputation, Crook forces the professor to sign over his property and then leaves him to die on the island. Returning home, Crook and his crew commandeer the professor's house. In the drunken brawls which follow, Crook is killed and the crew decide to assault Betty. As she cowers in her locked room, Winthrop, who has saved her father from the island, comes to the rescue.
- DirectorElsie Jane WilsonStarsZoe RaeCharles WestFrank BrownleeIn dire financial straits, businessman John Baird considers liquidating the bonds that are held in trust for his little daughter Margery. Failing to comprehend her husband's desperation, Virginia Baird refuses his request and, upon overhearing his lawyer advising him to utilize the bonds without consulting her, she decides to place them in the hands of old friend George Drake. Drake hijacks the securities, however, and their disappearance leads to the break-up of the Bairds' marriage, resulting in Virginia leaving the house. Attempting to console her father, Margery sets out on her pony to bring her mother home. But she is held up on the road by Captain Kidd Jr., who adopts her as his first mate, and the two children take up residence on a grass hut on a nearby island. There, while playing at being pirates, they discover the missing securities. As they are returning to land in a leaky boat, the children are found, much to the delight of their parents. Margery's return with the missing securities reunites the Bairds, and all ends happily.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsRaymond McKeeJoseph BurkeRay HallorIn Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
- DirectorRaymond B. WestStarsBessie BarriscaleArthur MaudeDorcas MatthewsThe Earl of Selkirk and his family learn of the impending arrival of American pirate John Paul Jones, they flee their castle, leaving behind Nora, the kitchen maid. Left alone in the house, Nora dons the clothes of her mistress and parades herself about the castle until the arrival of the king's light infantry. Because they mistake her for the lady of the house, she invites them to be her guests. Meanwhile, on board the pirate ship, third officer Darby O'Donovan recognizes the little island as his former home. Sent ashore by the commanding officer to investigate, Darby sees Nora, his old sweetheart, seated at the table with the redcoats and, impersonating an Irish gentleman, he interrupts the gathering. Later, a fisherman exposes Darby's true identity and he is arrested. Nora, determined to save her lover, disguises herself as a soldier and signals the pirate ship for help. After a thrilling battle between the pirates and the soldiers, the pirates escape and Darby sails to America accompanied by Nora.
- DirectorHugh FordStarsPauline FrederickThomas MeighanAl HartRamona is the daughter of the governor of Port Royal. She is a school girl living in Spain. John Barton, a soldier of fortune, is cast ashore in Spain penniless and scrapes an acquaintance with Ramona by rescuing one of her pets. He is putting up at a rather questionable tavern where he learns of a huge treasure buried by Firebrand, a pirate, and secures plans of the spot in which it is concealed. Ramona sails for Port Royal and Barton is on the same ship. Firebrand attacks the ship and captures as part of his booty Ramona, whom he appropriates for himself after Barton has been knocked overboard in her defense. Until the acquisition of Ramona, Firebrand's favorite has been Anna, who now becomes jealous of the Spanish beauty. After attempting to make Ramona accept his attentions peacefully, Firebrand vents his wrath upon her and orders her confined in one of his cabins. Barton, recovering from his injuries sufficiently to make his way ashore, stumbles upon the cabin in which Ramona is a prisoner but the jealous Anna discovers him and informs Firebrand of the supposed duplicity of his new favorite. The pirate chief rushes to the cabin and when he attempts to force his attentions upon Ramona she kills him. Anna denounces Ramona as the culprit and, in a fit of vengeance, suggests that Ramona be sold as a slave in the public market. Her rare beauty causes lively bidding among the men who attend the sale. Meanwhile Barton has gone in search of the buried treasure and has found it. He has bought a horse on which he comes in search of Ramona, only to find her on the slave block, with a horde of men frantically bidding for her. Plunging into the crowd, he fights his way to the front and forces the bidding until, after a soul-stirring scene, he succeeds in vanquishing his rivals, and rides off triumphant in search of a minister.