Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan
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 ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 13, 1999
Stats: 125 reviews
in my opinion it's not really like the wild bunch at all except for it being set in mexico and our protagonists having an attack of conscience. however it's a gem in its own right.
I have seen this movie floating around stores for some time now, and until recently categorized it as "western" and then ignored it. Yes, friends, I, too, was one of those people who said "Eugh, westerns? No thanks!" with nary a gander at their actual qualities or failings. I use...( read more)
This is Badass.
Jack Palance as a mexican
Lee Marvin as Lee Marvin
A mine car chase
Exploding arrows
The glorious cleavage of Claudia Cardinale
In the midst of the 60s, as the Italians began redefining the Western, this terrific effort from Hollywood came out, bridging the traditional John Wayne stilted myth-making Westerns with the new breed of European-influenced Westerns which weren't interested in honorable men doing...( read more)
Solid Western adventure in the WILD BUNCH style. Four grizzled vets head down to Mexico to face off Jack Palance and rescue Claudia Cardinale and her cleavage. Tough guys Lancaster and Marvin head the cast marvelously. Fast and furious but overlooked.
A solid western film that has a routine plot but is relieved by the amount of great talent in the film. Obvious successor to Magnificient Seven and predecessor to The Wild Bunch in terms of western artistry.
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