The Professionals (1966 film)

The Professionals is a 1966 American western starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Ryan, and Woody Strode. The supporting cast features Jack Palance and Ralph Bellamy and the film was written and directed by Richard Brooks, whose screenplay was based upon the novel A Mule for the Marquesa by Frank ORourke.

In the latter period of the Mexican Revolution, around 1916, Rancher and Oil Tycoon J.W. Grant Ralph Bellamy hires four men, who are all experts in their respective fields, to rescue his kidnapped wife, Maria Claudia Cardinale from Jesus Raza Jack Palance, a former Mexican Revolutionary leader turned bandit. Grant offers to pay each man 10,000.00 for their services. 1,000.00 up front and the final 9,000.00 once they safely recover his wife.Team leader Henry Rico Fardan Lee Marvin is former U.S. Army Officer, having served with the Rough Riders during the SpanishAmerican War, who is a weapons and tactics specialist Bill Dolworth Burt Lancaster is a combat veteran of the Mexican Revolution and an explosives expert the horse wrangler and pack master is Hans Ehrengard Robert Ryan a former U.S. Cavalry Officer turned rancher and Jacob Jake Sharp Woody Strode is a scout and expert tracker with traditional Apache skills, particularly with a bow and arrow, and is also a crack shot with a rifle. Fardan and Dolworth, having both fought under the command of Pancho Villa during the first Mexican Revolution both speak Spanish and know the roads and terrain in Mexico. They both had served with Raza under General Villa and have a high regard for him as a soldier. But as hard and cynical professionals, they have no qualms about killing him now. ........

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