Review of Shalako (1968) by Rick R — 23 Sep 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 European 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.
This review of Shalako (1968) was written by Rick R on 23 Sep 2009.
Shalako has generally received mixed reviews.
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