El corsario negro

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| name =El Corsario Negro

| image = File:Pedro Armendáriz and June Marlowe in El corsario negro (1944).jpeg

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| director =Chano Urueta

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| screenplay = Antonio Momplet

| based_on = The Black Corsair by Emilio Salgari

| starring =Pedro Armendariz

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| released = {{Film date|1944}}

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| country = Mexico

| language = Spanish

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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,{{cite web | title=Actors And Actresses | website=Internet Archive | date=2016-10-23 | url=https://archive.org/details/International_Dictionary_of_Film_and_Filmmakers_Volume_3_Actors_And_Actresses/page/36/mode/2up | access-date=2025-03-14}} José Baviera, June Marlowe{{efn|name=marlowe|Not the actress also called June Marlowe, active in silent films in the 1920s [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1546692.]}},{{cite web | last=De la Torre| first=ElenaPublishing | title=Cine-mundial (1944) : Chalmers Publishing Company | website=Internet Archive | date=2016-10-23 | url=https://archive.org/details/cinemundial29unse/page/256/mode/2up | access-date=2025-03-14}} and Maria Luisa Zea. The film is based on the 1898 adventure novel The Black Corsair by Emilio Salgari.{{cite web | title=Breve historia del cine mexicano : primer siglo, 1897-1997 : Garcia Riera, Emilio | website=Internet Archive | date=2016-10-23 | url=https://archive.org/details/brevehistoriadel0000garc_n1e6/page/126/mode/2up | access-date=2025-03-14}} 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.{{cite book | last=Couret | first=N. | title=Mock Classicism: Latin American Film Comedy, 1930–1960 | publisher=University of California Press | series=Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Series | year=2018 | isbn=978-0-520-29684-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AUFJDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA202 | access-date=2025-03-14 | page=202}}{{cite web | last=Peredo | first=F. | title=Cine Y Propaganda Para Latinoamérica. México Y Estados Unidos En La Encrucijada De Los Años Cuarenta [ocr] [2004] | website=Internet Archive | date=2016-10-23 | url=https://archive.org/details/peredo-f.-cine-y-propaganda-para-latinoamerica.-mexico-y-estados-unidos-en-la-en/page/194/mode/2up | access-date=2025-03-14}}

It is in the public domain in both Mexico and the United States.{{cite web |title=Alameda et al v. Authors Rights Restoration Corporation et al |url=https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/331/472/510935/ |website=Justia Law |accessdate=8 February 2019 |language=en |date=19 May 2003}}{{Cite web |title=CINEFICHES : Cinéma, DVD, |url=http://www.cinefiches.com/film.php?id_film=31320 |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=www.cinefiches.com}}