Shalako (1968)
Country: US/GB/GER
Technical: col/scope 113m
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Hawkins, Honor Blackman, Stephen Boyd
Synopsis:
A hunting party in Mew Mexico made up of Europeans falls foul of Apaches, and has only its former cavalry man turned guide to help it.
Review:
One of several unlikely roles to which the star lent himself in the Sixties in order to escape the Bond mould, this is above-average for a European Western so far as script and dubbing are concerned, though poor Hawkins had to be voiced by this stage, probably by Charles Gray. It encompasses the customary motley travellers spectrum of attitudes and surprise attacks (cf. Hombre), all redeemed by dependence on their saviour and self-abandonment to a common cause rather than selfishness.
Country: US/GB/GER
Technical: col/scope 113m
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Hawkins, Honor Blackman, Stephen Boyd
Synopsis:
A hunting party in Mew Mexico made up of Europeans falls foul of Apaches, and has only its former cavalry man turned guide to help it.
Review:
One of several unlikely roles to which the star lent himself in the Sixties in order to escape the Bond mould, this is above-average for a European Western so far as script and dubbing are concerned, though poor Hawkins had to be voiced by this stage, probably by Charles Gray. It encompasses the customary motley travellers spectrum of attitudes and surprise attacks (cf. Hombre), all redeemed by dependence on their saviour and self-abandonment to a common cause rather than selfishness.
Country: US/GB/GER
Technical: col/scope 113m
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Hawkins, Honor Blackman, Stephen Boyd
Synopsis:
A hunting party in Mew Mexico made up of Europeans falls foul of Apaches, and has only its former cavalry man turned guide to help it.
Review:
One of several unlikely roles to which the star lent himself in the Sixties in order to escape the Bond mould, this is above-average for a European Western so far as script and dubbing are concerned, though poor Hawkins had to be voiced by this stage, probably by Charles Gray. It encompasses the customary motley travellers spectrum of attitudes and surprise attacks (cf. Hombre), all redeemed by dependence on their saviour and self-abandonment to a common cause rather than selfishness.