The Black Pirates

The Black Pirates
Directed byAllen H. Miner
Written byFred Freiberger
Al C. Ward
StarringAnthony Dexter
Robert Clarke
Martha Roth
Toni Gerry
Lon Chaney Jr.
CinematographyGilbert Warrenton
Music byManuel Díaz Conde
Distributed byKit Parker Films
Lippert Pictures
Release date
  • December 24, 1954 (1954-12-24)
Running time
74 minutes
CountriesUnited States
Mexico
El Salvador
LanguageEnglish

The Black Pirates is a 1954 Ansco Color adventure film made by Salvador Films Corp. about a band of pirates scouring a small Central American town for a buried treasure. It was directed by Allen H. Miner and produced from a screenplay by Fred Freiberger and Al C. Ward based on the story by Johnston McCulley.

The film stars Anthony Dexter and Martha Roth with Robert Clarke, Toni Gerry and Lon Chaney Jr.

The tagline of the movie was "Wild Raiders of the Tropic Seas!". It was filmed on location in Panchimalco, El Salvador. Filming started in mid-June 1954 and the movie was released in December and distributed in Latin America under the title El Pirata Negro.

The Black Pirates was the first film that Cinema Research Corporation was hired to do the special effects for.[1]

  1. ^ "Cinema Research Titles". IMDb.