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Karl Friedrich May (/ m aɪ / MY, German: [kaʁl ˈmaɪ] ⓘ; 25 February 1842 – 30 March 1912) was a German author. He is best known for his novels of travels and adventures, set in the American Old West, the Orient, the Middle East, Latin America, China and Germany.
Karl May film adaptations are films based on stories and characters by German author Karl May (1842–1912). The characters Old Shatterhand, Winnetou, and Kara Ben Nemsi are very famous in Central Europe. In most of the film versions the novels were reworked to a great extent, some movies using only the names of characters invented by Karl May.
Old Shatterhand (known as Apaches' Last Battle in the UK) is a successful Eurowestern film based on the character Old Shatterhand, written by German novelist Karl May and part of the Winnetou series. It is a West German CCC Film production co-produced with French, Italian and Yugoslav companies, and filmed in 70 mm. Financed with roughly DM ...
Karl May: Karl May: Helmut Käutner: The Great McGonagall: William McGonagall: Spike Milligan: Lenny: Lenny Bruce: Dustin Hoffman: Mahler: Gustav Mahler: Robert Powell: Alma Mahler: Georgina Hale: Stavisky: Alexandre Stavisky: Jean-Paul Belmondo: The Story of Jacob and Joseph: Jacob: Keith Michell: Joseph: Tony Lo Bianco: Visit to a Chief's Son ...
Alexander Crichlow Barker Jr. (May 8, 1919 – May 11, 1973), known as Lex Barker, was an American film and television actor.He was known for playing Tarzan for RKO Pictures between 1949 and 1953, and portraying leading characters from Karl May's novels, [1] notably as Old Shatterhand in a film series by the West German studio Rialto Film.
9. Home Alone (1990). Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Catherine O'Hara Rating: PG When his family accidentally leaves him behind on the day of their flight to Paris, 8 ...
Karl May is a 1974 West German biographical drama film directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, starring Helmut Käutner as the writer Karl May.It is considered the second part in Syberberg's "German trilogy", preceded by Ludwig: Requiem for a Virgin King from 1972 and succeeded by Hitler: A Film from Germany from 1977.
When television became popular in the late 1940s and 1950s, TV Westerns quickly became an audience favorite, with 30 such shows airing at prime time by 1959. Traditional Westerns faded in popularity in the late 1960s, while new shows fused Western elements with other types of shows, such as family drama, mystery thrillers, and crime drama.