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Shalako is a 1968 Western film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot. It was shot at Shepperton Studios near London with sets designed by the art director Herbert Smith.
Shalako: Directed by Edward Dmytryk. With Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins. In 1880 New Mexico, a group of European hunters runs afoul of the Apache but is aided by an ex-cavalryman turned guide.
Mar 20, 2021 · The town of Shalako — In the late 1960s Louis got involved with a company that wanted to find a use for a large piece of land that they owned at the base of the La Plata Mountains just west of...
The story shows definite signs of having been inspired, if that is the word, by Paul Newman's "Hombre" (1967). Both films deal with experienced Westerners who get stuck with the job of guiding a bunch of tenderfoots to safety. But "Hombre" showed Newman in a ticklish moral dilemma.
While guiding a hunting party of clueless European aristocrats, cowboy Bosky Fulton (Stephen Boyd) leads them into hostile Apache territory. Becoming separated from the group, Countess Irina ...
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Based on a book by the prolific Western novelist Louis L'Amour, Shalako (1968) had the makings of a classic frontier epic, including a unique premise that was rarely explored in Westerns: the confrontation between European civilization and the untamed wilderness and desolation of the American West.
Jan 16, 2023 · Sean Connery is Shalako, a frontiersman sent to roust a hunting party of European dignitaries out of Apache territory. They’re breaking the treaty by being there. More importantly, the Apache are on the warpath.
