El Corsario Negro ("The Black Corsair") is a 1944 Mexican film. It was directed by Chano Urueta and stars Pedro Armendariz, Jose Baviera, June Marlowe, and Maria Luisa Zea. The film is based on the 1898 adventure novel The Black Corsair by Emilio Salgari. It is the story of a seventeenth-century pirate (Pedro Armendariz) who declares a ceaseless war against the injustice of a cruel governor (Jose Baviera) of Maracaibo. In the course of his struggle, he finds the love of a beautiful maiden (June Marlowe), and loses his childhood friend (Maria Luisa Zea).

El Corsario Negro
Directed byChano Urueta
Screenplay byAntonio Momplet
Based onThe Black Corsair by Emilio Salgari
StarringPedro Armendariz
Release date
  • 1944 (1944)
CountryMexico
LanguageSpanish

The film is in the public domain in both Mexico and the United States.[1][2]

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  1. ^ "Alameda et al v. Authors Rights Restoration Corporation et al". Justia Law. 19 May 2003. Retrieved 8 February 2019.
  2. ^ "CINEFICHES : Cinéma, DVD,". www.cinefiches.com. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
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