Shalako (1968)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Edward Dmytryk

Writers:

Louis L'Amour (novel)
Clarke Reynolds (screen story)

Release Date:

6 November 1968 (USA)

Genre:

Western

Plot:

A fairly standard Louis Lamour western. Shalako, the hunter and tracker has to save a party of European...

Plot Keywords:

French | Bare Chested Male Bondage | Staked Out | One Word Title | New Mexico

Cast

Sean Connery	...	Moses Zebulon 'Shalako' Carlin
Brigitte Bardot	...	Countess Irina Lazaar
Stephen Boyd	...	Bosky Fulton
Jack Hawkins	...	Sir Charles Daggett
Peter van Eyck	...	Baron Frederick Von Hallstatt (as Peter Van Eyck)
Honor Blackman	...	Lady Julia Daggett
Woody Strode	...	Chato (Apache chief)
Eric Sykes	...	Mako
Alexander Knox	...	Sen. Henry Clarke
Valerie French	...	Elena Clarke
Julián Mateos	...	Rojas (as Julian Mateos)
Don 'Red' Barry	...	Buffalo (as Donald Barry)
Rodd Redwing	...	Chato's father
Chief Tug Smith	...	Loco (as 'Chief' Tug Smith)
Hans De Vries	...	Hans (the butler)

Also Known As:

Man nennt mich Shalako (West Germany)

Runtime:

113 min

Country:

UK | West Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.20 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound Recording)

Certification:

Singapore:PG | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (video rating) | USA:PG | West Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK

Company:

Central Cinema Company Film (CCC)

Trivia:

Senta Berger was first cast.

Goofs:

Continuity: A flaming arrow hits one of the covered wagons along the side, but it goes up in flames at the front above the driver's seat.

Quotes:

Sir Charles Daggett: [to Lady Daggett] Perhaps I'll leave you to the Apaches. They apparently have very interesting ways with ladies.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in De Tele Thuis show (1983) (V)

Sure it's offbeat, but...

When you think of a movie western, surely the words Brigitte Bardot DON'T come to mind. Well there she is decked out in black from head to toe and wearing A LOT of make-up in SHALAKO, an interesting adventure tale of a European hunting party out in the badlands led onto an Apache Indian reservation by their unsavory guide.

Edward Dmytryk directs with uncharacteristic flair as the Indians close in to remove the "arrogant white men (and women)" from their land. Sean Connery appears out of nowhere playing the title role and while he's his usual solid self, it's difficult not to see him as James Bond gone wild west. There's surprisingly little chemistry between Connery and the great Bardot. As the villain, Stephen Boyd is very dull. He seems to have less and less personality with each film he makes. He's nearly invisible here. Woody Strode plays a particularly nasty Indian and Honor Blackman (perhaps in a nod to GOLDFINGER, in which she and Connery tussle in the hay) is a kinky British Lady who tussles in the hay with Boyd and is later disposed of by a very imaginative Indian.