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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792860556
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792860551
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 25, 2004
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 27557
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: November 06, 1968
Editorial Review:
Description:
Saddle up for a raucous and 'robust western adventure' (Variety) that packs 'strong action' (Film & TV Daily) and the crackling chemistry of screen icons Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot! Based on the novel by Louis L'Amour, Shalako is a 'handsome' (Variety), 'rousing western' (Motion Picture Herald) that delivers nonstop thrills with both barrels blazing! Gutsy, gunslinging Shalako (Connery) is a loner who looks out for number one, until he finds himself rescuingand falling fora beautiful countess (Bardot) under attack by Apache Indians. But when Shalako discovers that the countess is part of a European hunting party that refuses to be led to safety, he must summon all his courage to fight the Apache and save the woman he loves or die trying!
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - LOOKS BETTER AS THE YEARS GO ON
This movie was based on one of the stronger Louis L'Amour books, a book to stand beside HONDO for its strength of hero. Unfortunately, the film is only a pale representative of the book. One thing I find strange in some of the listed reviews is the statement of the film being atypical as in "offbeat" or "unique". The plot of the book and movie can be seen as truly western in approach and outlook, nothing strange in either one that would warrant or support an 'offbeat' or 'unique' tag. ... Read More
Rating:  - Shalako
Sean Connery's only Western is certainly an oddity. The failure isn't Connery's fault, he acquits himself rather well. Most might think it very strange that he was cast in this role but the casting was of Connery was perfect. The movie is based on the novel of the same name written by Louis L'Amour; the character of Shalako from the book had an European background &, for reasons that escape me at the moment, he immigrated to America. In fact, much of the film follows L'Amour's novel closely. As it ... Read More
Rating:  - Shalako
The 5 stars are not for the director, actors, performance, or script translation. It's for the feeling it invokes when I watch it.
I first saw this movie as a kid on the big screen. Quite an adult movie for one so young but they were the days before PC when kids actually had fun. Snuck into the cinema on a lazy Sunday afternoon with my friends. Bikes piled in a heap outside. BB gun safely tucked under a bush. I enjoyed it thoroughly, and I'm just glad I can watch it again on DVD. Thank you Amazon ... Read More
Rating:  - It Stinks
This was an all European production based on a Louis Lamour novel and that's the most decent thing I can say. Well, to be fair Connery does acquite himself well as a western hero. Everyone else is truly wasted. An oddity as a film at best.
Rating: - 1968 Survival Western with Sean Connery & Brigitte Bardot (and Valerie French)
DIRECTOR: Edward Dmytryk
WRITERS: Louis L'Amour (novel) and Clarke Reynolds (screenplay)
CAST: Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Sephen Boyd, Honor Blackman, Jack Hawkins, Woody Strode and Valerie French
RUNTIME: 1 hour 53 minutes
LOCATIONS: Spain
COUNTRY: UK/West Germany
THE STORY: A pompous group of European nobles on a hunting vacation in New Mexico are beset by a band of Apaches who don't appreciate them trespassing on their lands. After the Europeans are abandoned ... Read More
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