Last of the Renegades

Last of the Renegades
Film poster
Directed by	Harald Reinl
Written by	Harald G. Petersson
Based on	Winnetou novels by Karl May
Produced by	Erwin Gitt Stipe Gurdulic Wolfgang Kühnlenz Horst Wendlandt
Starring	Pierre Brice Lex Barker Anthony Steel
Cinematography	Ernst W. Kalinke
Edited by	Hermann Haller
Music by	Martin Böttcher
Production companies	Rialto Film Jadran Film Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie
Distributed by	Constantin Film
Release date	17 September 1964 (1964-09-17)
Running time	94 minutes
Countries	West Germany France Italy Yugoslavia
Language	German
Box 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

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

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

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.

^ 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.

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.