Shalako (film)

Shalako
original film poster by Tom Chantrell
Directed by	Edward Dmytryk
Produced by	Euan Lloyd
Written by	J.J. Griffith Hal Hopper
Starring	Sean Connery Brigitte Bardot Stephen Boyd Jack Hawkins Honor Blackman Woody Strode
Music by	Robert Farnon
Cinematography	Ted Moore
Edited by	John D. Guthridge Bill Blunden
Production company	Palomar Pictures International Kingston Film Productions, Ltd. CCC
Distributed by	Cinerama Releasing Corporation (USA) Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors (UK) (1968, original) MGM (2004 and 2009, DVD)
Release date	1968
Running time	113 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$5 million
Box office	$1,310,000

Shalako is a British 1968 Western film directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot, filmed in Almería, Spain.

The cast also includes Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, and Honor Blackman, Connery's co-star in Goldfinger. It is based on a novel by Louis L'Amour.

In 1880 in New Mexico, frontier adventurer Bosky Fulton (Stephen Boyd) and his men lead a hunting party of European and their servants, along with a retired American politician and his wife, into Apache territory. When a French countess, Irina Lazaar (Brigitte Bardot), wanders off she is attacked by Apache warriors on horseback. She is rescued by Shalako (Sean Connery), a former U.S. Cavalry officer with a personal interest in keeping non-Indians off Indian land. While on the way to returning her to the hunting party, they are surrounded by Apaches. They both promise the Apache chief they will get the outsiders off the land. The chief agrees, but his son, Chato (Woody Strode), tells Shalako he intends to kill him in battle.

Shalako urges the leader of the hunting party, Frederick von Hallstatt (Peter van Eyck), to leave, but he refuses and the two men soon despise each other. Shalako rides off to get the army to escort the party off Apache land, but the Apaches attack and would overrun the party but for a smoke signal ruse of Shalako from some distance away.