Black Eagle of Santa Fe

Die Schwarzen Adler von Santa Fe
Die Schwarzen Adler von Santa Fe
Directed by	Alberto Cardone (as Albert Cardiff); Ernst Hofbauer (as Ernest Goodman);
Written by	Valeria Bonamano; Jack Lewis;
Produced by	Mario Siciliano; Gunther Raguse; Wolf C. Hartwig;
Starring	Brad Harris; Joachim Hansen; Horst Frank; Tony Kendall;
Cinematography	Hans Jura
Edited by	Herbert Taschner
Music by	Gert Wilden
Distributed by	Constantin Film
Release dates	12 March 1965 (West Germany); 28 August 1965 (Italy);
Running time	95 minutes
Countries	West Germany; Italy;
Language	German

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.

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 commanded by Captain Jackson. Due to the peace treaty, however, the garrison 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

Brad Harris as Cliff/Clint McPhearson
Horst Frank as Blade Carpenter
Tony Kendall as Chief Black Eagle
Pinkas Braun as Gentleman
Joachim Hansen as Captain Jackson
Werner Peters as Morton
Ennio Girolami (as Thomas Moore) as Tom Howard/Slim James
Edith Hancke as Cora Morton
Joseph Egger as Buddy
Serge Marquand as Brad Howard/Chet 'Blacky'James
Olga Schoberová as Lana Miller
Jacques Bézard (as Jackie Bezard) as Pasqual
Ángel Ortiz as Sergeant
Annie Giss as Madam
Lorenzo Robledo as courier

Reception

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

References

^ "Ilse Lahn Waitzenkorn". 24 November 1992.
^ 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.
^ "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

External links

Black Eagle of Santa Fe at IMDb

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[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

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