Brigitte Bardot, Honor Blackman, Jack Hawkins

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PG, 1 hr. 53 min.

Directed by: Edward Dmytryk

Release Date: November 6, 1968

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DVD Release Date: March 13, 2001

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  • September 20, 2008
    Connery in the west? Good idea actually.
  • January 7, 2007
    A decent cast wasted in an unusual but slightly tedious western that's basically a safari movie in the desert. Dull.
  • September 24, 2009
    Shalako (1968)

    This is one of those typical late 60s European westerns that looked like a good idea at the time, with veteran action director Edward Dmytryk, and an international cast, including Sean Connery and Bridget Bardot, and based on a Louis L'Amour story.

    A group of Eur...( read more)opean aristocrats, along with their servants and wine collection, are in the frontier western U.S.A. to do some hunting. They've hired on a shady character, Bosky Fulton (Stephen Boyd) as a guide, who leads them onto reservation land to do their hunting in. Not a good idea when an indian uprising is immanent.

    Tracker Moses Zebulon Carlin (Connery), who the indians call Shalako, is asked to go rescue them and guide them out of danger. Many of the aristocrats are pretty clueless and dangerous situations ensue.

    Despite all of this going on, the story somehow falls flat. There's the beautiful actresses, Bridget Bardot, Honor Blackman and Valerie French but somehow the characters just didn't grab our interest as much as they should have. It's better than most spaghetti westerns of the time, but not that great.
  • August 17, 2008
    good drama violent western.
  • March 26, 2008
    ok a bit sily but i enjoyed it
  • February 3, 2008
    I have seen this so many times. I still enjoy watching it
  • August 21, 2007
    i would like to see this one..
  • August 21, 2007
    I thought Stephen Boyd and Honor Blackman were great in this movie. They are the only ones I really enjoyed watching here. Like someone else commented, Stephen Boyd is back in his element. He made a great villain. What a shame he died so young!

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