SHALAKO - Bond & BB Go West
Shalako - Bond & BB Go West S halako was a change of pace for Sean '007' Connery; he was tired of being James Bond and had always been a fan of westerns, so when he was offered a part in a Louis L’Amour adaptation, he quickly said yes. For the producers, Connery was a ‘big fish’, so it instantly became ‘his movie’: He received over $1 million out of the $5 million budget and brought two Bond collaborators with him, director of photography Ted Moore and stunt coordinator Bob Simmons. Honor Blackman also had a history in the Bond franchise: she had played the infamous Pussy Galore in Goldfinger . The film was shot in the Almeria surroundings, the homeland of the spaghetti westerns, but doesn’t look or feel like any of them, but is more violent (or at least more graphically violent) than most of them. There’s one scene including a necklace (you’ll recognize it when you see it) that is particularly gruesome. The premise is intriguing: a party of European aristocrats ar...
