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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
EAN: 9781404968431
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404968431
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 3.0SpanishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 3.0EnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: COLD08661D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: April 05, 2005
Running Time: 117 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: November 02, 1966
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Before The Wild Bunch, there was The Professionals, Richard Brooks's marvelous ode to friendship, loyalty, and disillusionment. It may not have the stylistic bravado or fatalistic doom of the legendary Sam Peckinpah film, but Brooks's storytelling is simple and steady and just as insightful. The difference is Brooks is a lot more optimistic. Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster are buddies who have drifted into oblivion after fighting together in the Mexican Revolution. Marvin, the principled loyalist and munitions expert, lost his wife and his heart. Lancaster, the dynamite expert and unprincipled adventurer, keeps losing his pants. They team up with wrangler Robert Ryan and archer Woody Strode to rescue the beguiling Claudia Cardinale, who has been kidnapped by their old revolutionary buddie Jack Palance. So it's back into bloody Mexico they go on a "mission of mercy" for railroad tycoon Ralph Bellamy, who's paying handsomely for the return of his wife.
But nothing is what it seems in this exciting, existential adventure, which was beautifully shot by Conrad Hall. Sarcastic quips, philosophical musings, and heart-rending reversals underlie Brooks's humanistic sentiments. These are tired, world-weary men who somehow find the strength and the will to pull together for the sake of love and commitment. Through it all, Brooks seems to be lamenting a decline in professionalism much deeper than his story. He's decrying Hollywood and the society at large, anticipating Peckinpah's later strategy. --Bill Desowitz
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The Professionals is one of Hollywood's last great Westerns. It's not the last great one made; Westerns that followed it include The Wild Bunch, Once Upon a Time in the West (non-American) & Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, just to name a few but not all. The cast is loaded: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Claudia Cardinale, Woody Strode, Jack Palance & Ralph Bellamy. It's almost a who's who listing of actors.
J. W. Grant (Bellamy) wants his kidnapped wife, Maria (Cardinale) ... Read More
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From the opening credits with Maurice Jarre's fantastic score, you know you're in for a hell of a ride.
A great western and one of the fine American films.
Plausible, almost credible. Not without its flaws...but, in this film, who cares?
Seasoned actors on a noble quest with clever scripting and gorgeous cinematography.
Marvin, Lancaster, Ryan, and Strode are fully polished, here. Never better.
No "defect of birth(s)" here.
Rating:  -
There's several qualities that contribute to this being a top 10 western classic and few 'corny' elements that keep it out of the top 5 for this genre. The 4 main characters (Lancaster, Marvin, Strode and Ryan) have enough screen presence on their own to make a "shoot 'em up" (Lancaster/Marvin being the obvious best of the 4). First, the good.
Lancaster doesn't stray completely from his goofy athletic screen persona with his "tite" pants and some of his athleticism (climbing up a canyon ... Read More
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After seeing The Magnificient Seven, this one was not up to the mark. But I am giving it 4 stars since I liked the script. The best part was tha it did not potray the maxsicans in the all negetive light.....at least in the end.... The extras... not that great...But its a real good western of the eara when westerns were a big draw.The Professionals [Blu-ray]
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This story line to this movie is great. I saw the movie when it came out and decided I would show it on my once a month friendship circle of guys. I was surpised to see the wives join us when they heard this was my choice for movie night. I will look at this movie over and over its a great hero epic that allows one to escape and shows what a determined team of rebels can do.
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