3D’s Need to See: Western Month Part 3
3D is back to continue a month of Western movie recommendations. As promised, this week’s suggestion is just a little more serious than the comedies I’ve been featuring. It is the 1966 Western with a Mexican flair, “The Professionals.”
First of all, let’s look at the cast list: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, and Woody Strode are the titular “Professionals,” but there is also Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, and Ralph Bellamy. The plot involves “The Professionals” being hired by a millionaire to rescue his wife from a Mexian bandit.
Of course, it turns out not to be so simple. For one thing, Lancaster and Marvin were involved in the Revolution in Mexico, so they are friends with the people they are going after. While they have become cynical, disillusioned “Professionals”, their old friends are still idealistic revolutionaries.
I like this film for many reasons (hello, Burt Lancaster!), not the least of which is the fact that they featured Mexico in a Western. That gave things a different flair. All the discussion of the revolutionary fire and how it goes out was also pretty interesting for a Western. So, if you like serious Westerns about tough guys, you need to see “The Professionals.”
—3D
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