The Professionals (DVD)

Description: Genre: War & Western - Western / Theatrical Release: 1966 / Parental Guidance / Director: Richard Brooks / Actors: Burt ... more

The Professionals (DVD) ... Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance ... / DVD released 2003-06-16 at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: PAL, Widescreen

Newest Review: ... has a much lighter touch to it despite several quite brutal shoot-outs for a 60s film. The script is pretty minimal here, ... more

... its mostly an opportunity to look at the beautiful vistas on display and execute lots of interesting and explosive set pieces. Lee Marvin's Rico Fardan is shown in the opening shots of the film testing out a machine gun for the army, and his skills with a gun are called into use many times in the film. Burt Lancaster's Bill Dolworth is the most interesting of the four main characters as he is the womanising adventurer with slightly more questionable morals, a nice foil to Marvin's straight down the middle 'good g...more

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The Professionals (DVD): Bad Boys of the 1960s (778 words)
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This is a review of the Columbia Pictures DVD. 'The Professionals' is a Western made in 1966, starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Woody Strode. These four actors play the aforementioned 'professionals', a bunch of experts in their fields; guns, explosives, horses and tracking. They are hired by wealthy rancher J.W Grant [Ralph Bellamy] to rescue his wife Maria [Claudia Cardinale] from the clutches of Mexican revolutionary Jesus Raza [Jack Palance]. From the beginning the four professionals are sceptical of their mission, with two of them [Lancaster and Marvin] having had dealings with Raza before and suspect foul play from Grant. However a ... Read the complete review

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