Last of the Renegades

1964 film

Erwin Gitt
Stipe Gurdulic
Wolfgang Kühnlenz
Horst Wendlandt

Starring

Pierre Brice
Lex Barker
Anthony Steel

CinematographyErnst W. KalinkeEdited byHermann HallerMusic byMartin Böttcher

Production
companies

Rialto Film
Jadran Film
Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie

Distributed byConstantin Film

Release date

17 September 1964 (1964-09-17)

Running time

94 minutesCountries

West Germany
France
Italy
Yugoslavia

LanguageGermanBox office$33.8 million (est.)

Last of the Renegades (German: Winnetou – 2. Teil and also known as Winnetou: Last of the Renegades) is a 1964 German-Italian Western film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Pierre Brice, Lex Barker, and Anthony Steel.^[1] It is based on a Karl May novel, and was part of a series of adaptations produced by Rialto Film. The film is a sequel to Apache Gold.

Cast

Pierre Brice as Winnetou
Lex Barker as Old Shatterhand
Anthony Steel as Bud Forrester
Karin Dor as Ribanna
Klaus Kinski as David 'Luke' Lucas
Renato Baldini as Col. J. F. Merril
Terence Hill as Lt. Robert Merril
Marie-Noëlle Barre as Susan Merril
Ilija Ivezić as Red (as Elija Ivejic)
Velemir Chytil as Carter
Stole Arandjelovic as Caesar
Djordje Nenadovic as Capt. Bruce
Mirko Boman as Gunstick Uncle
Rikard Brzeska as Tah-Sha-Tunga
Eddi Arent as Lord Castlepool
Gojko Mitić as White Raven

Production

It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and on location in Croatia. The film's sets were designed by the art director Vladimir Tadej.

It was one of a number of films Anthony Steel made in Europe.^[2]

Box office

In West Germany, it was the fourth top-grossing film of 1964, selling 6.75 million tickets and grossing €7,462,100^[3] ($7.82 million).

In the Soviet Union, the film sold 56 million tickets in 1975,^[4] equivalent to an estimated $26 million in gross revenue.^[5]

This adds up to a total of 62.75 million tickets sold worldwide, grossing an estimated $33.8 million in worldwide revenue.

References

^ Sandra Brennan (2008). "Last of the Renegades". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 10 January 2008. Retrieved 19 October 2008.
^ Vagg, Stephen (23 September 2020). "The Emasculation of Anthony Steel: A Cold Streak Saga". Filmink.
^ "Die Erfolgreichsten Filme in Deutschland 1964" [The Most Successful Films in Germany in 1964]. Inside Kino (in German). Retrieved 29 June 2020.
^ "Виннету – сын Инчу-Чуна (Winnetou – 2. Teil)". KinoPoisk (in Russian). Retrieved 29 June 2020.
^ "Cinema Going". The Asian Messenger. 1–4. Center for Communication Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong: 2. 1975. Archived from the original on 18 January 2023. Retrieved 18 July 2020. More Russians (4.5 billion) go to the movies more times (an average of 17.7 times per person) each year than people in any other country, according to UNESCO statistics for 1973, the last year for which figures are available. Tailing the Russians are Singaporeans, 17.1 times a year, and Hong Kong people, 15.1 times a year. Italians go 10 times, Britons 2.4 times and Frenchmen 3.5 times a year. The high frequency of movie going in Russia is attributed to the low price of movie admission, the drab quality of Soviet TV and the difficulty in getting seats at a restaurant or other places of entertainment. In Russia, where a movie ticket costs about 47 US cents, there are 154,200 cinemas.

Bibliography

Bergfelder, Tim (2005) [2004]. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-539-2.