Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
Production
Almería, Spain standing in for New Mexico with straight face.
Costume
Bardot's impractical desert couture deserves its own documentary.
Director
Edward Dmytryk
Sean Connery
Moses Zebulon 'Shalako' Carlin
Brigitte Bardot
Countess Irina Lazaar
Jack Hawkins
Sir Charles Daggett
Stephen Boyd
Bosky Fulton
Peter van Eyck
Baron Frederick Von Hallstatt
Honor Blackman
Lady Julia Daggett
Woody Strode
Chato
Alexander Knox
Henry Clarke
Eric Sykes
Mako
Valerie French
Elena Clarke
Julián Mateos
Rojas
Don 'Red' Barry
Buffalo
Rodd Redwing
Chato's Father
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Connery reportedly took this role to escape the Bond shadow, then immediately regretted every desert mile. He and director Dmytryk allegedly stopped speaking mid-production.
This was the last of the 1960s 'international western' cycle trying to replicate Leone's magic with bigger stars and worse scripts. The genre collapsed shortly after.
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