Black Eagle of Santa Fe

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Die Schwarzen Adler von Santa Fe
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Directed by
Written by
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography Hans Jura
Edited by Herbert Taschner
Music by Gert Wilden
Distributed by Constantin Film
Release dates
  • 12 March 1965 (1965-03-12)(West Germany)
  • 28 August 1965 (1965-08-28)(Italy)
Running time
95 minutes
Countries
  • West Germany
  • Italy
LanguageGerman

Black Eagle of Santa Fe (German : 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.

Contents

Story

Ranch workers disguised as soldiers murder Indians in order to stir up trouble with the whites so the rancher can claim their land.

Plot

Landowner Morton wants to expand his property because he knows about oil deposits under the Indian territory. Settlers also come to the area, as a peace treaty with the Comanches provides security. Disguised as soldiers, Morton has his men attack the Indians. Black Eagle, the chief of the Comanche, then digs up the hatchet. After a bloody raid, the village's surviving settlers seek shelter in the nearby fort of Captain Jackson and his men. Due to the peace treaty, however, the fort is undermanned and Jackson is unable to act. He hires trapper Clint McPherson to investigate the cause of the Indian uprising, uncovering Morton's deceitful plan, which he tells Black Eagle. He and the Indians arrive at the fort just in time to assist the soldiers and settlers against the attack by Morton's men.

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

Reception

Black Eagle of Santa Fe is considered a contemporary homage to the Karl May film adaptations. [3]

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References

  1. "Ilse Lahn Waitzenkorn". 24 November 1992.
  2. Lewis, C. Jack (2002). White Horse, Black Hat: A Quarter Century on Hollywood's Poverty Row. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. pp. 108–109. ISBN   978-1-4617-3108-5.
  3. "The Black Eagle of Santa Fe (Die Schwarzen Adler von Santa Fe)". spaghetti-western.net. Retrieved 19 April 2014. the film clearly follows the model of the Winnetou series