Black Eagle of Santa Fe
| Die Schwarzen Adler von Santa Fe | |
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| Directed by | Alberto Cardone as Albert Cardkiff and Ernst Hofbauer as Ernest Goodman |
| Produced by | Mario Siciliano, Gunther Raguse, Wolf C. Hartwig |
| Written by | Valeria Bonamano, Jack Lewis |
| Starring |
Brad Harris Joachim Hansen Horst Frank Tony Kendall |
| Music by | Gert Wilden |
| Cinematography | Hans Jura Eastmancolor, Ultrascope |
| Distributed by | Constantin Film |
Release dates | 1965 |
Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | West Germany, Italy |
| Language | German |
The Black Eagle of Santa Fe or Die Schwarzen Adler von Santa Fe is a 1965 West German and Italian international co-production western film directed by Alberto Cardone and Ernst Hofbauer.
Story
Ranch workers disguised as soldiers murder Indians in order to stir up trouble with the whites so the rancher can claim their land.
Production
Jack Lewis recalled that Ron Ormond asked him to write a draft of a script based on a magazine story called Fort Disaster adding Indians, cavalry and Frank and Jesse James. When Ormond passed on the screenplay, Lewis retitled his screenplay Massacre Mountain and gave it to his agent Ilse Lahn Waitzerkorn[1] who several years later leased his script to Constantin Film.[2] The Germans used the screenplay to bring back Tony Kendall as Black Eagle from The Pirates of the Mississippi with his frequent film partner Brad Harris. Joining Harris was his future wife Olga Schoberová who appeared with Harris in Massacre at Marble City.
Cast
- Brad Harris – Cliff/Clint McPhearson
- Horst Frank – Blade Carpenter
- Luciano Stella as Tony Kendall – Chief Black Eagle
- Pinkas Braun – Gentleman
- Joachim Hansen – Captain Jackson
- Werner Peters – Morton
- Ennio Girolami (as Thomas Moore) – Tom Howard/Slim James
- Edith Hancke – Cora Morton
- Joseph Egger – Buddy
- Serge Marquand – Brad Howard/Chet 'Blacky'James
- Olga Schoberová – Lana Miller
- Jacques Bézard (as Jackie Bezard) – Pasqual
- Ángel Ortiz – Sergeant
- Annie Giss – Madam
- Lorenzo Robledo – courier
Reception
Black Eagle of Santa Fe is considered a contemporary homage to the Karl May film adaptations.[3]
References
- ↑ http://variety.com/1992/scene/people-news/ilse-lahn-waitzenkorn-101565/
- ↑ pp. 108-109 Lewis, C. Jack White Horse, Black Hat: A Quarter Century on Hollywood's Poverty Row Rowman & Littlefield, 1 Jan 2002
- ↑ "The Black Eagle of Santa Fe (Die Schwarzen Adler von Santa Fe)". spaghetti-western.net. Retrieved 2014-04-19.
the film clearly follows the model of the Winnetou series