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The Professionals (1996)

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Grant (Ralph Bellamy) is a wealthy rancher who hires four mercenaries to retrieve his wife, Maria (Claudia Cardinale), from the clutches of the desperado Raza (Jack Palance) in this Western adventure set in 1917. Dolworth (Burt Lancaster) is a munitions expert who joins gunslinger Fardan (Lee Marvin), horse trainer Hans Ehrengard (Robert Ryan), and longbow master Jake (Woody Strode) when the men are offered 10,000 dollars apiece for the safe return of Grant's kidnapped wife. The cadre travels

PG-13, 1 hr. 57 min.

Western, Action & Adventure, Art House & International, Classics

Directed By: Richard Brooks I

Written By: Richard Brooks

In Theaters: Nov 2, 1966 Wide

On DVD: Jul 13, 1999

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Cast

Burt Lancaster
Bill Dolworth
Lee Marvin
Rico (Henry Fardan)
Robert Ryan
Hans Ehrengard
Jack Palance
Capt. Jesus Raza
Claudia Cardinale
Maria Grant
Ralph Bellamy
J.W. Grant
Woody Strode
Jake Sharp
Joe De Santis
Pasual Ortega
Rafael Bertrand
Fierro
Jorge Martinez De Hoyos
Eduardo Padillia
Marie Gomez
Chiquita
Jose Chavez
Revolutionary
Carlos Romero
Revolutionary
Vaughan Taylor
Banker
David Cadiente
Elizabeth Campbell
Mexican Girl
Don Carlos
Bandit
Roberto Contreras
Foster Hood
Darwin Lamb
Hooper
Edward Little Sky
The Prisoner
Henry O'Brien
Leigh Chapman
Lady
Jorge Marchegiant
Eduardo Padilla
Dirk Evans
Man at Door
John R. McKee
Sheriff

Critic Reviews for The Professionals

All Critics (16) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (15) | Rotten (1) | DVD (7)

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

April 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety

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Variety Staff

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Underrated all-star western.

April 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

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The Professionals may not rank as one of the all-time classic Westerns, but it's a respectable--and beautifully filmed--entry in the genre.

June 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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James Plath

Movie Metropolis

It's one of Brooks's more eloquent and witty films.

April 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A truly adventuresome, action-filled film that is played more for thrills than for conveying a story.

April 8, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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TV Guide's Movie Guide

It was comprehensively eclipsed by Peckinpah's ostensibly similar The Wild Bunch.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Time Out

Top notch western adventure laden with macho stars Lancaster, Marvin and Palance.

June 15, 2006 Comment

Steve Crum

Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers

A rock-solid piece of Western Adventure entertainment. Marvin, Lancaster & Palance!

April 6, 2005 Comment

Scott Weinberg

eFilmCritic.com

A topnotch Western.

November 5, 2003 Comment

John Urbancich

Sun Newspapers of Cleveland

It's a little dated and has a few shot-on-bad-studio-set moments, but on the whole it's an impressive film, even if you don't normally care for Westerns.

June 22, 2003 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

It's far too entertaining to be lumped in with portentous epics like Dances With Wolves and How The West Was Won.

May 24, 2003 Full Review Source: Film4

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Film4

It's 'guys on a mission' time in this wonderful but improbable tale.

March 10, 2003 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

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This is Badass.Jack Palance as a mexicanLee Marvin as Lee MarvinA mine car chaseExploding arrowsThe glorious cleavage of Claudia Cardinale

May 21, 2007

Ken Stachnik

Super Reviewer

Son of the Magnificent Seven - With few exceptions, westerns tend to follow a basic formula: bad guys, good guys, horses & guns. The Professionals isn't deep or cerebral but it is entertaining. A star-studded genre classic.

January 18, 2009

Randy Tippy

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