Old Shatterhand (film)

The film Old Shatterhand known as Apaches Last Battle in the UK is a very successful Eurowestern based on the character Old Shatterhand invented by German novelist Karl May. It is a West German CCC Film production coproduced with French, Italian, and Yugoslav companies and filmed in 70mm. Financed with roughly 5,000,000 Deutsche Marks, the film was the most expensive Karl May western. Composer Riz Ortolani was allowed to use a chorus for his film score. Part of the set for this production was the Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia.

After the success of director Harald Reinls Treasure of Silver Lake Der Schatz im Silbersee in 1962 produced by Horst Wendlandt for the Rialto FilmCompany, his rival Artur Brauner from the CCCFilm company also wanted to have his share in this looming series. Since Wendlandt got the rights for the original Karl May novels although none of his films ever got too close to their respective plots, Brauner only had the chance of making a movie inspired by Karl May, using some of the already known personnel personated by American Lex Barker as Old Shatterhand and French Pierre Brice as Winnetou.American Guy Madison, who had starred in the TV series The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, played one of the bad guys and exotic Israeli Daliah Lavi was one of the damsels in distress before turning to a singing career, as did American Bill Ramsey, the comic part in this movie, already known in Germany for his Schlagers and later Jazzsongs. ........

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