The Black Pirates (1954)
- Directed by
- Allen H. Miner
- Genre
- adventure film, pirate film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Rating
- 4.9 of 10 from 10 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A band of pirates searches for buried treasure in a small Central American town. They face obstacles from local authorities and each other as they try to locate the hidden loot.
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What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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