The Professionals (Blu-ray) PG-13

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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region ABC (Worldwide)
  • Released: October 17, 2006
  • Originally Released: 1966
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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User Ratings: 3,945
Rating: 4/5 -- A rock-solid piece of Western Adventure entertainment. Marvin, Lancaster & Palance!
eFilmCritic.com
Apr 6, 2005
Underrated all-star western. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Apr 8, 2008
Exciting explosive sequences, good overall pacing and acting overcome a sometimes thin script. Full Review
Variety
Apr 8, 2008
Burt Lancaster is on terrific form as one of four grizzled mercenaries...
Empire
Sep 1, 2008
Rating: 3.5/5 -- 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.
Filmcritic.com
Jun 22, 2003
The Professionals is a frustrated movie from the very beginning. It's a story of incoherent and chaotic adventures. [Full Review in Spanish] Full Review
El Pais (Spain)
Jul 23, 2019
Rating: 3.5/4 -- A truly adventuresome, action-filled film that is played more for thrills than for conveying a story. Full Review
TV Guide
Apr 8, 2008

Product Description:

A wealthy rancher, Frank Carter (Ralph Bellamy), hires four tough gunslingers to rescue his wife (Claudia Cardinale), who is being held captive by Captain Rasa (Jack Palance), one of Pancho Villa's most desperate revolutionaries, in this dynamic and hard-hitting Western set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution of 1917. The wild West commando team consists of a dynamite expert (Burt Lancaster), an ex-revolutionary and munitions expert (Lee Marvin), a horse specialist (Robert Ryan), and a tracker (Woody Strode). On their mission to return Carter's highly prized wife, they track the Mexican revolutionaries through rough and rugged desert terrain, determined to outsmart, outshoot, and outride anyone they come across--until they meet the the charismatic Rasa and discover that Carter's seductive wife is in love with the Mexican outlaw and has no intention of returning with the band of "professionals." Based on the novel A MULE FOR THE MARQUESA by Frank O'Rourke, this beautifully rendered Western features a star-studded cast delivering finely crafted and charismatic performances. Burt Lancaster is at his acrobatic and mercurial best as the rowdy gunslinger.

Description by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin headline the top-notch, rip-roaring Western action/adventure, THE PROFESSIONALS. Four soldiers of fortune are hired by a wealthy Texan oil baron (Ralph Bellamy) to rescue his kidnapped wife (Claudia Cardinale), who's been spirited acress the Mexican Border by a band ofmercenaries led by Jesus Raza (Jack Palance). The four rugged professionals, each regarded as a specialist in his selected field - an expert marksman and tracker (Woody Strode), the explosives master(Lancaster), horse handler (Robert Ryan) and one skilled in tactics and weaponry (Marvin) - make their way across the treacherous landscape to retrieve the beautiful kidnappee, but discover all is not what it seems in the explosive climax. Excellent performances from an all-star cast, Maurice Jarre's haunting musical score and surprising plot twists make THE PROFESSIONALS a true classic. THE PROFESSIONALS garnered three Academy Award(r) nominations; two for Richard Brooks (Best Direction and BestAdapted Screenplay) and another for the esteemed Conrad Hall (Best Cinematography). The filmmakers received the same nominations the following year for the true crime classic, In Cold Blood.

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  • UPC: 043396162150
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