Yellow Hair and the Pecos Kid

Adventure, action and comedy ride together in Yellow Hair & The Pecos Kid, a western from 1984 directed by Matt Cimber. It is a joint American and Spanish production, though it was shot in English. The film travelled under many names: Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold and Yellow Hair and the Pecos Kid in the English-speaking world, Pelo Amarillo y Pecos Kid in Spain, À la poursuite du soleil d'or in France and Der Tempel des blutigen Goldes in Germany. It runs about 102 minutes.

Filming took place around Almería, an area that often stood in for the frontier in European-made westerns, particularly in the Tabernas Desert. Laurene Landon, Cihangir Gaffari and Claudia Gravy head the cast, joined by Ken Roberson, Luis Lorenzo, Eduardo Fajardo and Aldo Sambrell. Landon had already worked with Cimber a year earlier on Hundra.

In the United States the film was distributed by Crown International Pictures, a company that specialized in low-budget action pictures. It was pitched as a female take on Indiana Jones, but as its opening credits suggest it sits closer to the 1940s western serials. Its first screening in German-speaking countries took place on November 21, 1985.