Shalako
Movie1968·US, GB, DE·1h 53min

Shalako

Sean Connery is Shalako! Shalako means action! Action means Bardot!

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Premiere
26
Sep1968
Box office×1.80
Budget$1M
Gross$3M
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Shalako (1968) is a Western you can watch online on iFILM, with Sean Connery trading James Bond's tuxedo for the saddle of a frontier guide. Director Edward Dmytryk drops a party of bored European aristocrats into New Mexico, where they hunt for sport on Apache land. The tribe reads it as an invasion, and the price will be paid in blood.

Shalako understands this desert better than anyone alive. After he rescues a near-doomed beauty played by Brigitte Bardot, he becomes the one man who can pull these reckless visitors out of the trap they walked into. Cornered in a crumbling fort with ammunition running low, the hunters become the hunted.

The Connery–Bardot pairing is the real draw here: a flinty American tracker against a Parisian screen icon under a burning desert sky. Shot across the Almería badlands of Spain that would soon host a wave of spaghetti Westerns, it ages into a sturdy, unpretentious adventure that knows exactly what it is. Stream Shalako (1968) online on iFILM.

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