Underplayed Gems

The Treasure of Silver Lake (1962)

The Treasure of Silver Lake poster
Original title
Der Schatz im Silbersee
Directed by
Harald Reinl
Genre
Western film
Country
Yugoslavia, Germany, France
Runtime
1h 51m
Rated
12
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 129 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A group of frontiersmen and an Apache chief team up to find a hidden treasure while outwitting a band of outlaws. The story follows Old Shatterhand and Winnetou as they journey across the American West.

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What happens

Treasure of Silver Lake (German: Der Schatz im Silbersee) is a 1962 Western film directed by Harald Reinl, loosely based on German author Karl May's 1891 novel of the same name. It was the first in a highly-successful series of films based on May's works by the West German studios Rialto and Constantin Film, starring American actor Lex Barker as the frontiersman Old Shatterhand and French actor Pierre Brice as the Apache warrior Winnetou. Filmed on-location in Croatia (then part of Yugoslavia) as a co-production with Jadran Studios, the film was released in West Germany on 14 December 1962. It was the highest-grossing German-language film of that year, and its success demonstrated the viability of European-produced Western films, laying the groundwork for the Spaghetti Western. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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