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The Professionals
on DVD (1966)
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| Starring: |
Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Claudia Cardinale |
| Director: |
Richard Brooks |
| Studio: |
COLUMBIA TRI-STAR HOME VIDEO |
| Run time: |
112 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| Collections: |
100 Wild Westerns |
| User collections: |
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do: westerns worth your while, Best Westerns |
| Genres: |
Action/Adventure |
| Languages: |
English |
| Subtitles: |
Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released: |
16/06/2003
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| Also Available on: |
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Brief synopsis of The Professionals
A wealthy rancher, Frank Carter (Ralph Bellamy), hires four tough gunslingers to rescue his wife (Claudia Cardinale) who is being held captive by Captain Rasa (Jack Palance), one of Pancho Villa's most desperate revolutionaries, in this dynamic and hard-hitting Western set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution of 1917. The wild West commando team consists of a dynamite expert (Burt Lancaster), an ex-revolutionary and munitions expert (Lee Marvin), a horse specialist (Robert Ryan), and a tracker (Woody Strode). On their mission to return Carter's highly prized wife, they track the Mexican revolutionaries through rough and rugged desert terrain, determined to outsmart, outshoot, and outride anyone they come across--until they meet the the charismatic Rasa and discover that Carter's seductive wife is in love with the Mexican outlaw and has no intention of returning with the band of 'professionals'. Based on the novel A MULE FOR THE MARQUESA by Frank O'Rourke, this beautifully rendered Western features a star-studded cast delivering finely crafted and charismatic performances. Burt Lancaster is at his acrobatic and mercurial best as the rowdy gunslinger.
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Radio Times
With more than a passing nod to The Magnificent Seven, made six years earlier, Richard Brooks's action western was a box-office smash, repairing the damage that the flop Lord Jim had done to his reputation two years before. Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Woody Strode are the magnificent four, flawed and fearsome, hired to rescue Claudia Cardinale from the clutches of manic Mexican bandit Jack Palance. Grittily shot in canyon country, bursting with violence and with pit stops for pithy philosophising, this is one of the last westerns one can call a “classic”.
Time Out
Bellamy: 'You bastard!' Marvin: 'In my case an accident of birth, but you, sir, are a self-made man'. Brooks could...
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