El corsario negro

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

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,[1] José Baviera, June Marlowe,[A][3] and Maria Luisa Zea. The film is based on the 1898 adventure novel The Black Corsair by Emilio Salgari.[4] 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),[A] 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.[5][6]

It is in the public domain in both Mexico and the United States.[7][8]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Martha Black,[2] not Gisela Goetten.

References

  1. ^ Actors And Actresses (4th ed.). St. James Press. 2000. pp. 36–38. ISBN 1-55862-452-X – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ June Marlowe (II) at IMDb
  3. ^ De la Torre, Elena (February 1944). Cine-mundial (1944) (in Spanish). Chalmers Publishing Company. p. 256 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ Riera, Emilio Garcia (1998). Breve historia del cine mexicano: primer siglo, 1897–1997 (in Spanish). Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia. p. 126. ISBN 968-5096-00-7 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ Couret, Nilo (2018). Mock Classicism: Latin American Film Comedy, 1930–1960. University of California Press. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-520-29684-8 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Castro, Francisco Peredo (2004). Cine Y Propaganda Para Latinoamérica. México Y Estados Unidos En La Encrucijada De Los Años Cuarenta (in Spanish). Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. p. 195. ISBN 970-32-1527-0 – via Internet Archive.
  7. ^ "Alameda et al v. Authors Rights Restoration Corporation et al". Justia. May 19, 2003. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  8. ^ "Le Corsaire Noir – 1944". Cine Fiches (in French). Archived from the original on January 23, 2025. Retrieved August 11, 2023.