Shalako Theme 1968 Robert Farnon

Canadian Robert Farnon composed this stirring arrangement for the Edward Dmytryk directed british western Shalako. Based on the Louis Lamour novel of the same name in which a tracker and hunter - shalako - comes to the rescue of a hunting party of European aristocrats mistakenly led into Apache territory by their guide. The all star cast saw Sean Connery in his first film role since leaving the bond franchise with the beautiful Brigitte Bardot playing the french countess Irina Lazaar, and Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Honor Blackman, Peter van Eyck, Woody Strode and british comedy legend Eric Sykes supporting.

The lyrics to Farnon's theme were surprisingly written by british carry on star jim dale and while being rather 'tin pan alley' they hopefully dont detract from Farnon's exellent score, Robert Farnon also produced exelent scores for the classic 1970s british tv series Secret Army and Colditz

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[Woodlander65]

Lusty Soundtrack.

[davidleigh65]

@Woodlander65 ...glad you liked it woodlander

[Soundtrackcollector]

BTW ...I remember reading that Jack Hawkins voice was dubbed in the film, as the actor had lost his voice due to surgery in 1966.

[davidleigh65]

@Soundtrackcollector thankyou for the comments SC...and glad you appreciated this post..............yes poor jack hawkins voice had to be dubbed by the legendary british actor charles gray ......jack hawkins having lost his voice box as a result of surgery to try and deal with the cancer that would eventually kill him in 1973............i remember honour blackman remarking how difficult she had found this film because all hawkins lines were mouthed silently by him

[CuntBubbly]

@Jaqhama Shalako is also what my Macedonian girlfriend says to me when someone rings the doorbell.

[Jaqhama]

@Varangian1915

Shalako is doubtless a name/term/expression in several languages.

In the case of this movie, based on Louis Lamour's famous novel, Shalako is the name of the Zuni Apache Rain God.

[louisonbobette]

who cares what it really is, Shalako is Shalako, period (and incidentally Sean Connery, whitch doesn't hurt) !!

anyway, does anybody know where i could find the lyrics of that song? i'm tired of searching the Internet to no avail

[Varangian1915]

what the hell??? Shalako is an Armenian folk dance dudes.

[Soundtrackcollector]

Great choice Mr. Leigh ... I have the vinyl soundtrack and the dvd, but unfortunately, not the T-shirt.

Thanks for the post.