The Black Pirates is a 1954 Ansco Color adventure film made by 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 based on the story by Johnston McCulley. The film stars Anthony Dexter and Martha Roth with Robert Clarke, and Lon Chaney Jr. The Black Pirates was the first film that Cinema Research Corporation was hired to do the special effects for.