The writer Karl May is a household name in his native Germany, where he is associated with thrilling Western tales and sweeping adventure stories. Following earlier attempts to bring his novels to the screen, films adapted from May's work found their greatest success in the 1960s.
Old Shatterhand (1964) Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.
Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of Death (1968) Mabel Kingsley (Karin Dor) arrives at a western town to clear her missing father of the charge that he stole a shipment of government gold. A frontiersman known as "Shatterhand" (Lex Barker) agrees to guide her in a search for the gold and for major Kingsley (Sima Janicijevic / voice of Knut Hartwig). They are joined by an army lieutenant, an amateur botanist, and an Apache chief named Winnetou (Pierre Brice). Despite troubles caused by pursuing bandits and by Winnetou's enemy, a Sioux chief, Mabel's party eventually reaches the "Valley of Death" which holds the answers to the mystery of the missing gold.
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