The Professionals

Name: The Professionals
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Released: November 2, 1966
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Palance, Joe De Santis, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos

1966

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Columbia Pictures | Release Date: November 2, 1966 | GP

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Palance, Joe De Santis, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos, Lee Marvin, Rafael Bertrand, Ralph Bellamy, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode

Summary: An arrogant Texas millionaire hires four adventurers to rescue his kidnapped wife from a notorious Mexican bandit.

Director: Richard Brooks

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Western

Rating: GP

Runtime: 117 min

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Wonderful but improbable tale about a group of mercenaries sent to Mexico to rescue their employer's wife from bad man Jack Palance. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

Exciting, beautifully shot '60s political western. [10 Apr 1998, p.M]

Pauline Kael

There's something to be said for this kind of professionalism: the moviemakers know how to provide excitement and they work us over.

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

A truly adventuresome, action-filled film that is played more for thrills than for conveying a story, The Professionals offers a field day for Lancaster, Ryan, Marvin, and Strode. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

This 1966 film was eclipsed in many people's minds by The Wild Bunch three years later, but it's a good, solid job, and with Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, and Woody Strode, how could you miss? Read full review

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Exciting explosive sequences, good overall pacing and acting overcome a sometimes thin script. Read full review

Bosley Crowther

The scenery provided for this picture is clearly more profound than the script, and the sense of magnitude in the environment more engrossing than that in the plot. Read full review

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codyz

Sep 2, 2023

This Western about mercenaries finding their moral code, is surprising, exciting, and well performed. Movie features tons of pumped up action involving dynamite, bow and arrows, machine guns, and Claudia Cardinale's heaving bosom. The four big stars are great, but the filmmakers somehowThis Western about mercenaries finding their moral code, is surprising, exciting, and well performed. Movie features tons of pumped up action involving dynamite, bow and arrows, machine guns, and Claudia Cardinale's heaving bosom. The four big stars are great, but the filmmakers somehow don't give Robert Ryan much to do. And the last half hour turns into The Burt Lancaster Show.… Expand

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