1920s 17th-18thC Piracy
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- DirectorAlbert ParkerStarsDouglas FairbanksBillie DoveTempe PigottSeeking revenge, an athletic young man joins the pirate band responsible for his father's death.
- DirectorVitale Di StefanoStarsAnita FaraboniEmilio Liguon
- DirectorVitale De Stefano
- DirectorVitale Di StefanoStarsLa Bella ArgentinaRodolfo Badaloni
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsLeon ErrolDorothy GishNita NaldiThe film is a comedy that centers on a disgruntled 18th century Bostonian, played by Errol, who while wishing that he was a pirate, dons the clothes and play-acts the part. He is mistaken for the real pirate, Dixie Bull (played by Walter Law) whom Errol, of course, bumps into later in the film. More importantly, Errol "slays" the villain and puts his foot upon the pirate's head. This is more than enough and he heads back home to his unappreciated wife, played by Dorothy Gish.
- DirectorGeorge D. BakerStarsMarion DaviesNorman KerryAnders RandolfStrung around the idea of reincarnation, this film goes back in time to the days of the Spanish galleons and pirates burying their treasure; treasure to be found centuries later.
- DirectorTom TerrissStarsCatherine CalvertPercy MarmontHolmes HerbertNotorious pirate Joaquin Santos lives by the saying, "Dead Men Tell No Tales". He conspires with the prominent Squire Rattray to take over and plunder the Lady Jermyn, a ship carrying a considerable amount of gold, and then destroy the ship and kill its crew. Rattray, who is in love with Santos' daughter Eve, agrees to pick up the pirate.his crew and their loot on his private yacht after the deed is done. However, young George Cole, a passenger on the Lady Jermyn who is also in love with Eve, survives the attack and sets out to find her.
- DirectorFred NibloStarsMatt MooreEnid BennettBarbara La MarrA rousing fusion of satire, mystery and action. Aristrocrat Ambrose Applejohn is aching for excitement. He gets more than he bargained for when the two Russian thieves Anna Valeska and her partner Borolsky, arrive at the mansion one dark night.
- DirectorDavid SmithAlbert E. SmithStarsJ. Warren KerriganJean PaigeCharlotte MerriamPeter Blood, a young Irish physician, treats a rebel soldier wounded in battle, and he is arrested, tried for treason and sent into slavery to Barbados. He and his friend Jeremy are bought by the vicious Col. Bishop, who purchases them for his niece Arabella. Blood rallies the other slaves to rebel against their slavery; they escape and take over a Spanish galleon. Blood and his crew become pirates and the scourge of the Caribbean. England, at war with France and losing, offers him a commission in the Royal Navy if he will fight for them. Blood, who has no love for the French but even less for the English, has to decide whether it's better for he and his men to fight with the English or against them.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsShirley MasonJosie MelvilleAl W. FilsonYoung 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.
- DirectorJames W. HorneStarsRod La RocqueMildred HarrisSnitz EdwardsJerry Cleggett, the descendant of a seafaring buccaneer, is seeking a wife he must marry before noon on his 21st birthday or lose his inheritance.