Shalako Streaming
Mercredi, juin 23rd, 2010 |
Shalako Streaming.
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Based quite rigidly on the best selling unique by Louis L’Amour, we secure Sean Connery in the lead role here complete with Scottich brogue, that sits OK despite being a dusty, rough around the edges hero. Not often seen on reruns, and I don’t know why this film didn’t pick up worthy exposure, as many people I know haven’t seen it, or even heard of it. I’m tempted to say at this point, that this is not a movie that will live long in the memory, but don’t be keep off - it has a strangely compelling quality and realistic feel, and a better than average script. There a number of violent scenes, most notably the grissly demise of one of the lead characters (I won’t say who) at the hands of a vicious band of Indians, and you could design some comparisons with the disclose of movies like “Soldier Blue” although that came along several years after this. On the whole this is a trustworthy solid western, with gargantuan acting beautiful remarkable all round, the 60’s film style is evident in Ms Bardot’s fair appearance throughout, despite her supposedly being in the dusty encourage of beyondville, but this is nothing to win too upset about. I was satisfied to gaze this approach to the DVD market, and hope it will near the wider audience it deserves. Enjoy
With the cast this movie has–Sean Connery, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Honor Blackman, Peter van Eyck, Valerie French, and Woody Strode–and based on a recent by Louis L’Amour (and with a foreword by him) this should have been a mighty better Western than it is! It’s a unimaginative though-provoking narrative of a hunting party that becomes the hunted party. Shalako (the name means “rain bringer” in Zuni Indian), played by Connery, rescues a group of European noblefolk on a hunting expedition in Novel Mexico in the 1880s after they race afoul of hostile Apaches, who like to hunt, too; they like to hunt the “white-eyes,” whether European or home-grown, who invade their territory!
This DVD has no bonus features at all, not even the theatrical trailer! Impartial a scene selector menu. But the image quality is quite satisfactory and you have a choice of widescreen or tubby frame. Sean Connery looks beneficial in his buckskins and six-shooter, in his prime before the gray beard and bald pate. Brigitte Bardot is simply exquisite, as is Honor Blackman (GOLDFINGER, THE AVENGERS TV series.) I recommend this DVD as a novelty item mostly, for Connery fans (it’s his only Western–if you don’t count OUTLAND!) and Bardot fans (it’s her only Western, too–if you don’t count LES PETROLEUSES, a French-Italian oater!)
I first saw this movie at my current drive-in theater in `68, and the only thing I remembered about it was Bardot’s modestly demure bare relieve scene, until I saw it again on this DVD edition. This movie is unbiased rather forgettable! It was filmed on situation in Spain, and Spain doesn’t contemplate anything at all like the American Southwest, a fact European “Western” makers should realize, and that any John Ford fan can attest to!
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