History Trivia / Winnetou

* CoolGuns: Charlie's [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bear-slayer]] and Henry Rifle paired with Winnetou's Silver Rifle. They do (sort of) exist today in Karl May Museum "Villa Shatterhand".\\
Karl May had obtained at some time around [[TheEdwardianEra 1902]] three rifles to "prove" the RealLife base of his tales, but he got them pretty wrong:\\
The [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bear-slayer Rifle]] is a [[{{HandCannon}} 4-bore]] caplock double rifle made in 1855 in England for elephant-hunting. The Silver Rifle is a smaller calibre caplock double rifle [[BlingBlingBang non-functional and richly decorated with silver studs]]. Double rifles were nearly inexistent in [[TheWildWest the Old West]], where the typical guns were repeaters, single-shot large caliber rifles or double-barrel shotguns.\\
The Henry Rifle is a RealLife Model 1866 rifle patented by Henry and made by Winchester. While more modest compared with it's literary counterpart [[MoreDakka which could hold 25 cartridges]], it was never [[RareGuns a one-of-a-kind, custom made model]], but a mass-produced gun made by the hundreds of thousands and wielded by settlers and Indians alike.

* RetroactiveRecognition:
** Colonel Brinkley is [[Franchise/ThePinkPanther Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus]].
** Fred Engel (''Der Schatz im Silbersee'') and Martin Baumann (''Unter Geiern'') are played by [[Series/{{Tatort}} Kommissar Schimanski]].
** Mario Girotti (Lieutenant Merril in ''Winnetou II'' and another character in ''Unter Geiern'') became a big star in the 1970s under the name Terrence Hill.

* CoolGuns: Charlie's [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bear-slayer]] and Henry Rifle paired with Winnetou's Silver Rifle. They do ([[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment sort of]]) exist today in Karl May Museum "Villa Shatterhand".\\

* CoolGuns: Charlie's [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bear-slayer]] and Henry Rifle paired with Winnetou's Silver Rifle. They do ([[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement sort of]]) exist today in Karl May Museum "Villa Shatterhand".\\

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Evil Colonel Brinkley (''Der Schatz im Silbersee'') is [[Film/TheLadykillers Louis Harvey]] and [[Film/{{Spartacus}} Tigranes Levantus]]. By the way, Herbert Lom (who was born in Prague) did not have to be dubbed into German by another actor, unlike Lex Barker and Pierre Brice.
** Sam Hawkens (Ralf Wolter) was Borodenko in ''Film/OneTwoThree''. Wolter also played Hadschi Halef Omar in the Kara Ben Nemsi films, again as Lex Barker's sidekick.
** In ''Film/WinnetouII'', KlausKinski plays Forrester's main and most evil henchman.

The [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bear-slayer Rifle]] is a [[{{HandCannon}} 4-bore]] double rifle made in 1855 in England for elephant-hunting. The Silver Rifle is a smaller calibre double rifle [[BlingBlingBang richly decorated with silver studs]]. Double rifles were nearly inexistent in [[TheWildWest the Old West]], where the typical guns were repeaters, single-shot large caliber rifles or double-barrel shotguns.\\

* CoolGuns: Charlie's [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Bear-slayer]] and Henry Rifle paired with Winnetou's Silver Rifle.

** Mario Girotti (Lieutenant Merril in ''Winnetou II'') became a big star in the 1970s under the name Terrence Hill.

** Evil Colonel Brinkley (''Der Schatz im Silbersee'') is [[Film/TheLadykillers Louis Harvey]] and [[Film/{{Spartacus}} Tigranes Levantus]]. By the way, Herbert Lom (who was born in Prague) did not have to be dubbed into German, unlike Lex Barker and Pierre Brice.

** Evil Colonel Brinkley (''Der Schatz im Silbersee'') is [[Film/TheLadykillers Louis Harvey]] and [[Film/{{Spartacus}} Tigranes Levantus]]. By the way, Herbert Lom (who was born in Prague) did not have to be dubbed into German.

* StarMakingRole: A young Serbian stuntman called Gojko Mitić had a tiny part in ''Old Shatterhand''. Impressed with his athletic build, the makers of ''Unter Geiern'' cast him as the young Assiniboin chief Wokadeh, where he was credited as "[[ThisIsMyNameOnForeign Georg Mitic]]". Starting a year later Mitić played the lead in the first of a whole series of Film/DEFAWesterns which turned him into the biggest box-office draw in East Germany and made him famous beyond. In later day he would even become Pierre Brice's successor as the Winnetou of the open-air festivals in Bad Segeberg.

** In ''Film/WinnetouII'', KlausKinski plays Forrester's main and most evil henchman.* * RetroactiveRecognition:

** In ''Film/WinnetouII'', KlausKinski plays Forrester's main and most evil henchman.* RetroactiveRecognition:

** In ''Film/WinnetouII'', KlausKinski plays Forrester's main and most evil henchman.

* RetroactiveRecognition

** Sam Hawkens (Ralf Wolter) was Borodenko in ''Film/OneTwoThree''. He also played Hadschi Halef Omar in the Kara Ben Nemsi films, again as Lex Barker's sidekick.

** Sam Hawkens (Ralf Wolter) was Borodenko in ''Film/OneTwoThree''.

** Mario Girotti (Lieutenant Merril in Winnetou II) became a big star in the 1970s under the name Terrence Hill.