The Black Pirates is a 1954 adventure film

Adventure film

Adventure films are a genre of film.Unlike pure, low-budget action films they often use their action scenes preferably to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way....

 made by Salvador Films Corp. about a band of Pirates scouring a small Central American town for a buried treasure. The movie was directed by Allen H. Miner and produced from a screenplay

Screenplay

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 by Fred Freiberger

Fred Freiberger

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 and Al C. Ward based on the story by Johnston McCulley

Johnston McCulley

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The film stars Anthony Dexter

Anthony Dexter

Anthony John "Tony" Dexter was an American actor known for his resemblance of Rudolph Valentino, whom he portrayed in the 1951 biographic Valentino. Dexter sometimes used the pseudonym Walter Craig...

 and Martha Roth with Robert Clarke

Robert Clarke

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, 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

Panchimalco

Panchimalco is a town in the San Salvador department of El Salvador.Panchimalco is Its 35,000 inhabitants, sometimes called "Panchos," are descendants of Pipil Indians fleeing the Spanish takeover of San Salvador during the 16th century, into areas...

, El Salvador

El Salvador

El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...

. Filming started in mid June, 1954 and the movie was released in December and distributed in Latin America under the title: "El Pirata Negro".