''The Last Ride to Santa Cruz'' () is a 1964 West German-Austrian
Western film
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Edmund Purdom
Edmund Cutlar Purdom (19 December 19261 January 2009)
,
Mario Adorf
Mario Adorf (; born 8 September 1930) is a German actor, considered to be one of the great veteran character actors of European cinema. Since 1954, he has played both leading and supporting roles in over 200 film and television productions, am ...
, and
Marianne Koch
Marianne Koch (; born 19 August 1931) is a German retired actress, best known for her appearances in Spaghetti Westerns and adventure films of the 1960s. She later worked as a television host and as a physician.
Career
Between 1950 and 1971 ...
. The film was shot at the
Spandau Studios
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Canary Islands
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. The sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supe ...
s
Hertha Hareiter
Hertha Hareiter (1923 - 2015) was an Austrian art director.Bolam & Bolam p.158 She designed the sets for a number of films in the postwar years. She was married to the fellow set designer Otto Pischinger and often collaborated with him.
Selected ...
,
Leo Metzenbauer
Leo Metzenbauer (15 January 1910 – 10 April 1993) was an Austrian art director.Kaul p.28
Selected filmography
* '' Daughter of the Regiment'' (1953)
* ''The Schimeck Family'' (1957)
* ''The Forests Sing Forever'' (1959)
* '' Gustav Adolf's P ...
and
Otto Pischinger
Otto Pischinger (1919–1976) was an Austrian art director who designed the sets for a large number of films during his career. In 1955 he worked on '' The Last Ten Days''.Silberman p.243 He was married to Hertha Hareiter, also an art director, u ...
Cast
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Edmund Purdom
Edmund Cutlar Purdom (19 December 19261 January 2009)
as Rex Kelly
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Mario Adorf
Mario Adorf (; born 8 September 1930) is a German actor, considered to be one of the great veteran character actors of European cinema. Since 1954, he has played both leading and supporting roles in over 200 film and television productions, am ...
as Pedro Ortiz
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Marianne Koch
Marianne Koch (; born 19 August 1931) is a German retired actress, best known for her appearances in Spaghetti Westerns and adventure films of the 1960s. She later worked as a television host and as a physician.
Career
Between 1950 and 1971 ...
as Elizabeth Kelly
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Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski (, born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor. Equally renowned for his intense performance style and notorious for his volatile personality, he appeared in over 130 film roles in a ...
as José
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Marisa Mell
Marisa Mell (born Marlies Theres Moitzi; 24 February 1939 – 16 May 1992) was an Austrian actress. Typecast as a femme fatale in European arthouse and genre films, she is best regarded for her performances as Eva Kant in Mario Bava's critically ...
as Juanita
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Walter Giller
Walter Giller (23 August 1927 – 15 December 2011) was a German actor. He was very successful in the 1950s and 1960s, when he was often seen as a comedic leading man. One of his most successful and more serious roles was in ''Roses for the Pro ...
as Woody Johnson
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Thomas Fritsch
Thomas Fritsch (16 January 1944 – 21 April 2021) was a German film, television and dubbing actor and schlager singer. He was regarded as the "Sonnyboy" in the German cinema of the 1960s, and became one of the best-known actors by his presence ...
Kurt Nachmann
Kurt Nachmann (1915–1984) was an Austrian screenwriter and film actor
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional med ...
Rainer Brandt
Rainer Brandt (19 January 1936 – 1 August 2024) was a German actor, dubbing director and dubbing writer. He appeared in 40 films between 1959 and 1986, but is arguably most well known for his work in German dubbing. He was born in Berlin, Germ ...
as Voice of Pedro Ortiz (voice) (uncredited)
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Edmund Hashim
Edmund Hashim (June 2, 1933 – July 2, 1974) was an American actor. He was known for ''Hellfighters (film), Hellfighters'' (1968), ''The Green Hornet (TV series), The Green Hornet'' (1967), several different roles in ''Gunsmoke'' (1966-1969), '' ...
(uncredited)
* Rolf Olsen as John (bank employee) (uncredited)