Cast

Stewart Granger Pierre Brice Harald Leipnitz Macha Méril Terence Hill Walter Barnes

Credits

Written by: Karl May

Plot

'The Oilprince' is an unscrupulous businessman. He looks forward to a lucrative deal with the "Western Arizona Bank'. He sells the bank oil wells at Shelly Lake that do actually not exist. The Oilprince learns that the colonists would like to settle at Shelly Lake. So The Oilprince exchanges the scout of the settlers by one of his minions to give them another route.

Sinekatalog’s take

A crooked oilman sells worthless wells and misleads settlers in a German-made western. It is a serviceable adventure with scenery and gunplay, but the formula is familiar and the villainy rather cartoonish. For genre fans with a taste for European westerns.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

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Ratings

IMDb: 5.8 / 10 (1,892 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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