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Shalako [1968]

Starring: Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Peter van Eyck
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Format: Colour DVD-Video Full Screen Letterboxed Widescreen PAL
Released: 19 Jan 1999
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Not Bad--The Stars Help - By: Matthew Patton, 01 Feb 2006
I don't know if inept, snotty Euro-Aristos actuallly went on safaris in the middle of the Old West, but if you can get by that particular set-up, the rest of the film is pretty enjoyable, with good action scenes, lovely scenery well photographed, & a likeable cast giving value for money.

There have been complaints that Sean Connery & Brigitte Bardot fail to Ignite The Screen--instead, they display a likeable, low-key camaderie as an indian scout & a titled Frenchwoman who's a lot faster on the uptake than most of her companions--crude sex appeal gives way to something more realistic & appealing. Bardot forgoes pouting & wriggling & is alll the more likeable for it (1968 was also the year of her excellent cameo in the "William Wilson" segment of LES HISTOIRES EXTRAORDINAIRE, yet another renunciation of her sex-kitten persona). Stephen Boyd & Honor Blackman are equallly good as a predatory criminal & the English noblewoman who runs off with him from a mixture of craven calculation & sheer boredom--Boyd is flat-out sinister yet also charming, & Blackman is a vivid portrait of a woman stifled by her circumstances yet also quite willing to exploit the advantages of those circumstances.

The director, Edward Dymytryk, was long past his peak years as a director, but he gives the film forward momentum & does good work with the actors. The final result is hardly a work of art, but it is solid craftsmanship, & that is nothing to sneeze at.

Big Game hunters get hunted. - By: , 03 Dec 2001
This is a curious western that boasts some interesting stars yet never reallly produces the sparks one might expect when Sean Connery & Brigitte Bardot hit the big screen together.

It is a tale of Europeans on a safari in the wild west.Of course they are ill suited to such a venture & this is the basis of the film.They are double crossed,attacked by Native Americans & end up very shaken & stirred.Cue the hero whom the film is named after,played by Connery.

It is rather predictable after that with Connery saving most of them & getting the girl(he always manages to do that in films doesn't he?).

The ending is a bit weak & is too obvious.Yet one could pass a Saturday afternoon watching the film & be entertained which I suppose is alll the Director intended.