The series had a pretty good run back in the 1960s that included about 12 movies and a television miniseries. All starred french actor Pierre Brice as Winnetou and frequently had American Lex Barker as Old Shatterhand. Whether or not this movie will mark a return of the western, we will all have to wait and see.
The books were originally written in the late 1800s in German by Karl May and are about a German-American cowboy called Old Shatterhand that mets and befriends an Apache named Winnetou. Like many westerns, Winnetou idealized a simpler life, and due to their popularity managed to avoid the Nazi book purges, despite the book’s sympathetic dipiction of non-Aryan races.
So what do you think, is the Western film making a comeback?
Via Geek Tyrant.