El corsario negro (1944)

Directed by

Chano Urueta

Genre

pirate film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A seventeenth-century pirate declares war on a cruel governor in Maracaibo. Along the way he falls in love and loses a childhood friend.

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What happens

El Corsario Negro ("The Black Corsair") is a 1944 Mexican film of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. It was directed by Chano Urueta and stars Pedro Armendariz, José 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 (José 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). The film was a major production that gained popularity with audiences in Mexico and Latin America, but received negative reviews from critics. It is in the public domain in both Mexico and the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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