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This Movie is really one of the worst. A lot of stupids scenes, overacting and a very unsympathic Hero named Old Firehand. This guy wears a big beaver cap in Mexico. I hope he didn’t sweat too much. There is a really stupid scene in that movie: Winnetou asks other bandits for help! Guess what happens. The other one is the Love Story between Nscho-Tsi and an other guy. People who watched Winnetou 1 will be confused for a while. Has nothing to do with the Winnetou Movies and the SW either.
Nice Poster Lindberg! Better than the Movie. It was yesterday on TV and I had to watch it with my nephew.
Hello, I’m Winnetou and like the poster says this my friend Old … Old …
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I watched this yesterday, and it’s not that awful. Lots of people getting shot with guns and bow & arrow, also lots of people catching fire. Not bad for a kiddie movie.
I reviewed it in Dutch here:
Little slow to get going but gets there in the end. Like the mixture of people who pull together to help save the day. Sort of missed Lex Barker a little though. Like already sort of pointed out, some the winter style clothing worn by some of the characters was a little over the top for the warm weather.
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This is pretty poor - worst series entry. Lots of tedious scenes and tedious characters in the first half which is real dull, First one though to show a ‘spaghetti’ influence since it is set in a Mexican border town full of Mexicans which could have been an Almeria set.
The cast list on the database (and the IMDB) refer to Nadia Gray’s character as Michele Mercier (the name of the French actress who starred in Cemetary without Crosses) but in the film she is called Michele Dorell - in both English and German and on the German subtitles on the Tobis Blu Ray. So I don’t know what is going on here.
Ok - to clear this one up, there is a middle-aged bloke called Mercier who owns and lives in the house in which Michele lives with her son. But he is not her husband and her surname is Dorell.
I can’t find any trace in a Google search of Americans David de Reszke and C. B. Taylor who supposedly wrote the original script other than credits on this film (their only IMDB credit) so I reckon the names are aliases. They also wrote a novel Thunder at the Border as well, according to Wikipedia.de, but no trace of that either.
I’d agree with Scharpshooter’s review. The movie is easily the worst of the series. Viktor de Kowa is especially irritating and makes Eddie Arent seem like Charlie Chaplin.