Shalako is a 1968 Western film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot.

Location shooting took place in Almería in southern Spain, particularly in the Tabernas Desert which was frequently used in European westerns during the decade.

The cast also includes Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, and Honor Blackman, Connery's co-star in Goldfinger.

[4] In 1880 in New Mexico, frontier adventurer Bosky Fulton and his men lead a hunting party of European aristocrats and their servants, along with a retired American politician and his wife, into Apache territory.

Shalako urges the leader of the hunting party, Baron Frederick von Hallstatt, to leave, but he refuses and the two men soon despise each other.

Shalako returns to the stranded hunting party, which is re-equipped with weapons and supplies he had previously advised them to hide in reserve.

Producer Euan Lloyd was introduced to Louis L'Amour, author of numerous Western adventure novels, by his actor friend Alan Ladd.

At one time, Lloyd had lined up Henry Fonda and Senta Berger to star in the film, planning to shoot it in Mexico.

[5] During a meeting with L'Amour, Lloyd recounted long lines at the cinemas in New York City for the latest James Bond adventure film.

Whilst scouting locations when planning to film in the United States, Lloyd had noticed that many Native Americans were overweight.

Simmons recruited a "war party" of lean and mean Romani people (gypsies), whom he trained to ride and act like war-bent Apaches.

Once the gypsy Apaches, mounted on horseback, rode by mistake headlong into an attack on a Long Range Desert Group.

[11][page needed][12] Lloyd gathered a strong international cast, including Connery's former co-star Honor Blackman from Goldfinger, as well as Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Woody Strode, Peter van Eyck, Alexander Knox, Eric Sykes, and Don Barry.