Old Shatterhand

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Old Shatterhand (1964 / Director: Hugo Fregonese)

Characters based on the novels by Karl May

Also known as

Apaches Last Battle (UK) | Battaglia di Fort Apache (Italy) | Les Cavaliers rouges (France) | Shatterhand | Winnetou i Old Shatterhand (Poland) | La última batalla de los Apaches (Spain)

Cast and crew

  • Cast: Lex Barker (Old Shatterhand), Guy Madison (Captain Bradley), Pierre Brice (Winnetou), Daliah Lavi (Paloma), Rik Battaglia (Dixon), Gustavo Rojo (Corporal Bush), Ralf Wolter (Sam Hawkens), Kitty Mattern (Rosemary), Bill Ramsey (piano player), Alain Tissier (Tujunga), Charles Fawcett (General Taylor), Nikola Popovic (Sheriff Brandon), Mirko Ellis (Joe Burker), Burschi Putzgruber (Tom Kampendijk), James Burke (Colonel Hunter), Zivojin Denic (Schmidt), Nikola Ilic (Lieutenant Boyd), Ulla Moritz (track girl), Stevo Petrovic (bandit), Dusko Radojcic (Kamperpendijk), Uwe Rehse (barkeeper), Vladimir Sovanovic (Medicine Man), Georg Attlfellner (barber), Mirko Boman (Dick Stone), Aleksander Djuric (Great Bear), Vojkan Pavlovic (Will Parker), Milivoje Popovic (Lata Nalgut), Andrea Scotti (Sergeant Flanner), Dusan Tadic (Porucnik Baxter)
  • Story: Karl May (novel)
  • Screenplay: Ladislas Fodor, Robert A. Stemmle
  • Cinematography: Siegfried Hold
  • Music: Riz Ortolani

Synopsis

In order to prevent a peace treaty from returning valuable grazing land to the Apaches, settlers stage ambushes to pin the blame on Chief Winnetou's tribe. He and Old Shatterhand set out to find the real culprits. The trail of deception leads the two men to the fort of the U.S. Cavalry. The settlers, it turns out, aren't the only ones who want to sabotage the peace treaty. When Old Shatterhand is thrown into the stockade by Bradley, a commanding officer, Winnetou goes on the war path to save his blood brother.

Review

This 1963 Eurowestern begins with a dead rancher and some Indians, indicating that the Apaches have broken their peace treaty. Only a young boy knows that the killings (which include his parents) were actually done by ruthless land grabbers hoping to start a war between the Indians and the settlers. Shatterhand (played by Lex Barker), who is the adopted brother to the Apache's chief, tires to clear his friends' names and follows the trail of deception which leads right back to the gates of the Cavalry's fort.

DVD

  • German release by Kinowelt in its Karl May Edition 2 Shatterhand Box
  • Available in Poland

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