The Professionals (1966)
Director: Richard Brooks
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Bellamy: 'You bastard!' Marvin: 'In my case an accident of birth, but you, sir, are a self-made man'. Brooks could certainly write a line and direct action, but his taut and disillusioned yarn of American mercenaries intruding into the Mexican revolution to 'rescue' Cardinale had only a couple of years in critical favour before it was comprehensively eclipsed by Peckinpah's ostensibly similar The Wild Bunch.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Richard Brooks
Producer: Richard Brooks
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Ralph Bellamy, Woody Strode, Joe De Santis full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure, Westerns
Duration: 123 mins
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