The Professionals (1966) | |
| Director(s) | Richard Brooks |
| Producer(s) | Richard Brooks (uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Action, Film Adaptation, Western |
| Top Topics | Book-Based |
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The Professionals (1966) was a Action - Western Film directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Richard Brooks.
Academy Awards 1966 --- Ceremony Number 39 (source: AMPAS)
| Award | Recipient | Result |
| Best Cinematography | Conrad Hall | Nominated |
| Best Director | Richard Brooks | Nominated |
| Best Writing | Richard Brooks | Nominated |
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Richard Brooks' The Professionals
By Rick29 on Nov 7, 2019 From Classic Film & TV CafeLee Marvin as the group's leader. It was a commercial and critical success. It earned three Academy Award nominations. It starred two of the biggest stars of the 1960s. And yet, The Professionals (1966) rarely gets the attention it deserves these days. When it was shown on TCM last June, it got a l... Read full article
The Professionals (1966)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 21, 2015 From 4 Star FilmsWho wouldn’t be enticed by a film entitled The Professionals? It feels a little like an amalgamation of The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, with a ?little sprinkling of Mission Impossible, and dare I say The Wild Bunch? We have a band of four big time pros who are brought together to rescu... Read full article
The Professionals (1966)
By 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 21, 2015 From 4 Star FilmsWho wouldn’t be enticed by a film entitled The Professionals? It feels a little like an amalgamation of The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, with a ?little sprinkling of Mission Impossible, and dare I say The Wild Bunch? We have a band of four big-time pros who are brought together to rescu... Read full article
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Quotes from
Jesus Raza: How do you come to this dirty business.
Bill Dolworth: The usual. Money.
Jesus Raza: Everything is as usual. I need guns and bullets, as usual. The war goes badly, as usual. Only you, you are not as usual.
Jesus Raza: You know, of course, one of us must die.
Bill Dolworth: Maybe both of us.
Jesus Raza: To die for money... is foolish.
Bill Dolworth: To die for a woman is *more* foolish. Any woman. Even her.
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Lee Marvin was drunk throughout a lot of the filming, and was in fact so drunk during a scene atop a giant rock that assistant director Tom Shaw intervened out of fear that Burt Lancaster would "take Lee Marvin by the ass and throw him off that mountain".
The cast and crew stayed in Las Vegas while working on this project. Actor Woody Strode wrote in his memoirs that he and Lee Marvin pulled several pranks, including shooting an arrow at the famous smiling cowboy neon sign damaging it briefly.
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