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	DVDFILE.COM: The Professionals review
		And when the interrelationships among Grant, his wife, Fardan's team, and Raza are resolved at the film's climax, it's satisfying and not entirely expected.
		The film's theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1 is presented in anamorphic video.
		The film's theatrical trailer is shown in 4:3 letterbox and is monaural.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video/professionals.htm (910 words)

	DVD Times - The Professionals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		That’s not to say that he doesn’t play well with the rest of the once-in-a-lifetime cast or that the film doesn’t have other things which make it stand out amidst the glut of Westerns which were still being churned out in the mid-1960s.
		The skill of ‘the Professionals’ is unambiguously celebrated and the possibilities of heroism and moral certainty are not questioned too deeply.
		The film is transferred in its original 2.35:1 aspect ratio and has been anamorphically enhanced.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=57006 (1980 words)

	Let the professionals tint your Car
		Window film consists of two layers, the liner and tinted film, this liner keeps the films adhesive from sticking to anything.
		The film is first cut on the outside of the window making it easier than cutting it inside the vehicle.
		Remove the film from the window and place on a cutting surface, touch up anything that could not be cut right on the window and round edges to avoid problems later on.
	www.tint4cars.co.uk /Pages/DIY.htm (907 words)

	Reflections on "The Professionals"
		It is also at this point that we are introduced to a concept which is essential to understanding the film – when Dolworth talks of his role in the "revolution", and how it became hard to tell who were the good guys and who were the bad guys.
		They have become disillusioned and have accepted this job for money (the "professionals" of the title), yet in the end they make a stand for principle at the expense of their fee, but to the credit of their sense of honour and self-esteem.
		Given the background and philosophical nature of several of the scenes, the film might easily have become deadly serious or ponderous but Brooks manages to combine reflections on life, death, and principle with humour and a constant positive attitude.
	www.geocities.com /stuartfernie/pro.htm (993 words)

	The Professionals
		Films from 1939-1971 (33 years) are in blue, films from 1972-2004 (the following 33 years) are in yellow.
		For the first half of the film, that seems to be the real plot, but that turns out to be merely the set-up.
		Films rated below five are generally awful even if you like that kind of film - this score is roughly equivalent to one and a half stars from the critics or a D on our scale.
	www.fakes.net /professionals.htm (1073 words)

	Summer westerns on DVD
		Peckinpah's film may have transcended genre conventions with more convulsive force, but Brooks's is still a ripping yarn that deserves to be rediscovered and reconsidered as a kind of transition between more traditional Westerns and the revisionism pioneered by Peckinpah and Leone.
		Revisiting The Professionals or seeing it for the first time, one is likely to be surprised by the way in which it anticipates both narrative and thematic elements of The Wild Bunch.
		Director King Vidor, a giant of silent films and an inventive visual stylist, gave it his usual dynamism, but was eventually fired when he balked at Selznick's increasing demands to push Jones's erotic allure to the limit.
	www.cinemonkey.com /reviews/holmeswesterns/westerns.html (738 words)

	Film Festivals.com - Filmmakers
		The Hollywood Film Festival, which ran from August 2 to 7, is about the most ambitious 6 days in filmdom.
		The caliber of the professionals inside the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the site of the Conference, made one panelist quip that "if a bomb goes off in the building, they might as well move Hollywood to Cincinnati".
		As a flashing melodrama shot in the past with appropriate costumes and settings, the film perpetuates the aesthetism of a leading genre, at the same time it reflects the exceptional soaring of the cinema industry in Korea.
	www.filmfestivals.com /database/film/filmus_talk.htm (750 words)

	The Professionals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Not that this film is not terrible by any means but it is missing some important ingredients such as Robert Di Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer and Ashley Judd.
		This version is the typical 90-minute HK film and thus can only touch on the highlights of Heat, but it has none of the layered complexity of Heat.
		Basically, there is a group of professional thieves led by Norman Chu — the same guy who dueled Michelle Yeoh in Wing Chun and a group of detectives that follow them (headed by Louis Koo) and wait for them to commit a crime.
	www.brns.com /pages2/action37.html (192 words)

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	The Professionals (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Professionals were a British hard rock band formed by Steve Jones and Paul Cook from the Sex Pistols, after the band broke up.
		The featured in the 1981 film Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains.
		They disbanded in August 1982, right before they released their last album, "I Didn't See It Coming".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Professionals_(band) (204 words)

	Cowboy Movie Mall :: The Professionals
		While the professionals numbered four it's the relationship between Marvin and Lancaster that is at the films core.
		There are a couple of problems with the film, looking back at a project made in 1966 from the year 2005.
		The premise of course is simple..hire four professionals to rescue a rich man's, Ralph Bellamy, wife from the revolutionary Raza, Jack Palance.
	www.ropersonly.com /amazon/index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0767827678 (2133 words)

	Film UK - Professionals - Edinburgh International Film Festival
		The Edinburgh International Film Festival is a networking focus for the national and international filmmaking communities and offers the annual Guide to British Film and the Film UK section of its Videotheque as special services to the industry.
		The Film UK Guide to British Film publishes in-depth information on all British fiction feature and short films completed in the last 12 months, making the Film UK Guide an indispensable resource for anyone interested in British film.
		It is available each year to Festival delegates, other international film festivals, film organisations and industry professionals, Thousands of copies are downloaded throughout the year.
	www.edfilmfest.org.uk /professionals?view=filmuk (287 words)

	DVD Savant Review: The Professionals (special edition)
		Robert Ryan has the least exciting role but his authority and integrity anchor the film; if he's riding with these guys, they must be okay.
		The Professionals takes place in rocky desert country, and these guys become part of the landscape, clinging to slabs of stone like lizards and leaping about in ways almost guaranteed to produce broken limbs.
		The Professionals is discussed as part of a longer Savant essay from 1999, Foreign Intervention and the American Western.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1556prof.html (1298 words)

	THE PROFESSIONALS: Modus Operandi
		The aim of this article is threefold: to look in detail at this controversial, long-running show, assess its attributes (both good and bad) and to explore its influence or otherwise on the programmes that would succeed it.
		As with The Professionals, though, the level of violence was of some concern - this certainly troubled Woodward (he was appalled when parents would tell him "my kids love your show!") - and there were two or three episodes that I recall being surprisingly brutal.
		Filming for CI5 - The New Professionals took place between October 1997 and June 1998 with the team now headed up by Edward Woodward along with three relative newcomers - one of which is a female role.
	www.business.u-net.com /~carnfort/Professionals/profs.htm (9950 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: The Professionals: Special Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The story is slight with the ending making the whole film feel like overheated nonsense (a bunch of people are killed by the heroes, which the conclusion reveals was for no good reason), but the workmanlike nature of the movie makes it a passable entertainment by never taking anything too seriously.
		Having made her presence felt in a number of seminal Italian films (including 8-1/2 and The Leopard), she — like many of the European stars to rise out of the '50s and '60s — dabbled in American cinema, and her robust beauty is always a welcome presence.
		The film is also well shot by Conrad Hall, and he lenses the exciting raid of Raza's camp with panache.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/p/professionals_se.q.shtml (336 words)

	Martin Shaw Scrapbook - The Professionals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		At stake in both cases is a lot of pride, professional sweat and a considerable amount of money.
		After more than 40 years in films and television, Jackson is too diverse an actor to be type-cast but he has found that, since returning to the theatre recently, there are shades of his two starring roles in some of the parts he has been offered.
		He admits that, while The Professionals has been a part of his life for many years, he doesn't feel too much of a wrench at the end of a series.
	www.greenspot.info /TV/Professionals/ProsArticle16.html (2624 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Professionals - the 1970s TV show
		Since The Professionals ended, he's not been on our screens with any great regularity and lives in the USA with his wife and children.
		An attempt to revive the series for a nineties audience was made in 1997 with "CI5 - The New Professionals", starring Edward Woodward as Harry Malone, Kal Weber as Chris Keel, Colin Wells as Sam Curtis and Lexa Doig as Tina Backus.
		Dave Matthews's fantastic site The Authorised Guide To The Professionals is a good place to start if you want to know more about the show.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A667244 (724 words)

	Professionals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		What sounds like a fairly standard Western plot is anything but simple: The Professionals is an unbelievably exciting film with expertly executed action sequences and a story with enough surprises to keep the audience on the edge of their seats.
		For Lancaster, this film was a return to a lighter role after a string of "high dramas" that included his Oscar-winning performance in Elmer Gantry.
		The film was nominated for three Academy Awards: Brooks, for his direction and screenplay, and cinematographer Conrad Hall for his gorgeous work.
	www.classicsondvd.com /professionals1966.htm (575 words)

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		The Professionals penetrate deep into Mexican territory, heading for the fortified hacienda where the senora is imprisoned.
		The four professionals, using a combination of dynamite, small arms, and a generous dose of moxie take out the hacienda's defenses with aplomb but when they come to take the lady away they realize they've been double-crossed.
		Beyond these few minor cons, the film is great fun with Lancaster in particular playing his role to the hilt.
	www.epinions.com /content_105667464836 (851 words)

	Laurie Johnson - film and TV composer
		It is not so widely known that among his TV credits are the themes for "Animal Magic" (almost a cult itself, the signature tune is called "Las Vegas") and "This is Your Life".
		And one of a number of "Big Band" pieces of a different sort is his "Edinburgh Castle" which is a march for military parades.
		The films were four in number: "The Lady and the Highwayman", "A Hazard of Hearts", "A Duel of Hearts" and "A Ghost in Monte Carlo".
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Laurie-Johnson.htm (507 words)

	Crushed by Inertia: The Professionals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		By the time writer/director Richard Brooks' 1966 action film hit theaters, almost all of the elements of his film were cliched, but his cast is so iconic, his eye for action set pieces so finely tuned, and his enthusiasm for the genre and material so evident, it hardly matters at all.
		And, of course, because it was 1966, the film has an incredibly lefty slant, eventually siding with the Mexican revolutionaries over the selfish and perverse American capitalists.
		(Though the film is set largely in Mexico, it was filmed in Nevada, outside Las Vegas.) Brooks clearly had a fondness for trains, and some of the locomotive montages reminded me of the work of Stan Brakhage in their quiet observation of shadow and movement.
	crushedbyinertia.blogspot.com /2005/04/professionals.html (925 words)

	Film, Television & Radio, Resource Guide -- PSU Library
		Supplementary lists of award-winning films, of film biographies by subject and of movies by the name of the war portrayed.
		Motion picture industry statistics for the year, biographies of entertainment world figures, directories of services for the movie industry, state and city film commissions, motion picture companies, a list of the films of the preceding year, directories of theatre circuits, independent theaters (by state), motion picture organizations, trade publications, the industry abroad.
		Indexes 85 film periodicals selected for their value to film research and scholarship.
	www.lib.pdx.edu /resources/pathfinders/filmandtv.html (2291 words)

	"The Professionals" (1977) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The sexist banter between the heroes Bodie and Doyle is typical of the period, but stills remains funny to watch.
		One episode called 'Klansman', about a British right wing group to which Bodie becomes sympathetic, has to this day never been screened in the U.K. for fear of inflaming racial tensions, which were at their height during the Professionals' five year run.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for "The Professionals" (1977)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0075561 (363 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - 'The Professionals' - the TV show
		After filming finally finished, he ditched the bubble perm, eschewed TV stardom, and became a classical theatre actor.
		Since The Professionals ended, he's not been on our screens with any great regularity - aside from a guest appearance in Robin of Sherwood - and now lives in the USA with his wife and children.
		This is because LWT only held the rights to repeat the show for five years after the last series finished, in 1983 (it was was repeated in 1984 and 1987).
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A1161190 (1294 words)

	Films of the Old West
		You can go directly to their ordering system, which shows pricing and availability and includes both professional and reader's reviews, by clicking on the image of the video cover or the film icon alongside each review.
		The Professionals is one of those Westerns that's loved by those who've seen it, but unseen by many people who'd love it.
		John Ford was ahead of his time in the treatment of both subject matter {accusations of rape} and the historic role of fls in the military.
	www.oldwestlibrary.com /owl/owfilms.htm (1357 words)

	The Professionals - I Didn't See It Coming
		Many people would agree that the late ‘70s and early ‘80s were great times for music (well, maybe not if you looked on the top 40 charts).
		This re-issue contains the whole Professionals catalogue, as the band disintegrated in 1982 after 2 short American tours and a handful of gigs in the UK.
		They include Join The Professionals, the centerpiece song of the cult film Ladies And Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains, the singles 1-2-3 and Just Another Dream, and covers of White Light, White Heat and Baby, I Don’t Carethat prove catchier than the regular album.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/rock_music_new/98805 (459 words)

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	Home Theater Forum - A short review of "The Professionals" SE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"The Professionals" is a film about four men hired by a rich railroad mogul to rescue his kipnapped wife being held in Mexico around 1917.
		Because so many films have touched me in a special way, I can never be sure myself which one is my favorite so I just list a group of films that stand out in my mind.
		This film will always have a personal place in my heart because it was the only time that my father and I were alone together in a movie theater.
	www.hometheaterforum.com /htforum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=230600 (2559 words)

	Amazon.com: Professionals (1966) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Claudia Cardinale was certainly nice to look at, and she was capable, but if I had to choose a weak link in the film, it would probably be her, but given how well all the other elements of the film worked, this was entirely a minor issue.
		The film could have gotten mired within this element, but, as with other elements of the movie, there was just enough present to keep things interesting and add a bit of welcome diversity while not taking away from the overall story.
		All in all an excellent film, maybe not the quintessential western of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969), but certainly required viewing for fans of western films and certainly worth looking into for anyone just interested in a good film in general.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6301395395?v=glance (3135 words)

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