The Professionals

1966  NR  ACTION  1h 57min

CAST— Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Burt Lancaster, Jack Palance, Ralph Bellamy, Claudia Cardinale

MUSIC— Maurice Jarre  DIRECTOR— Richard Brooks  BASED ON— A Mule for the Marquesa (novel), by Frank O’Rourke

     Better they be professionals than amateurs; especially for a job such as this. Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster play mercenaries, old partners joining forces for one last mission. Together with Woody Strode and Robert Ryan they comprise a team that the baddies wouldn’t want to cross in a dark alley. Their mission, should they choose to accept it: traverse the harsh Mexican desert in search of Ralph Bellamy’s wife, held captive by Mexican revolutionary Jack Palance, a former teammate of Marvin and Lancaster. But seemingly everything is stacked against them: the desert elements, an army of revolutionaries and plot twists along the way. A fun, action packed, Westerny adventure sure to please those in the mood for a tough guy picture.

OUR RATING— ***