The Professionals
1966, NR, 117 min.
Directed by Richard Brooks, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale.

It’s “guys on a mission” time in this wonderful but improbable tale about a group of mercenaries sent to Mexico to rescue their employer’s wife from bad man Jack Palance. They’re sort-of bad guys, but Palance is a really bad guy – what’s a damsel in distress to do?

This article appears in July 5 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.