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The Pirate of Panama

1929 film by Ray Taylor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ3867319 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Pirate of Panama is a 1929 American action film serial directed by Ray Taylor. The film is considered to be lost.

Cast

Jay Wilsey (aka Buffalo Bill Jr.) as Karl

Natalie Kingston as Evelyn Wallace

Al Ferguson as Boris Bothwell

George Ovey

Mary Sutton as Aunt Berry

Otto Bibber as Teager

Episodes

The serial had a total of 12 episodes, with the first 3 being released on the same day, and the others being slowly released for the next few months.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Pirate of Panama” as 1929 film by Ray Taylor. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pirate, Panama and film.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1929—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1929-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pirate, Panama and film providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “The Pirate of Panama”, the useful work is to connect “1929 film by Ray Taylor” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3867319. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1929.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Pirate of Panama”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Pirate of Panama primary sources, The Pirate of Panama archive and Pirate research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “The Pirate of Panama” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.