Review, buy War and Westerns: The Sabata Trilogy: Sabata/Adios, Sabata/Return of Sabata [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Professionals [Blu-ray] [1966] [US Import], F Troop: The Complete First Season (REGION 1) (NTSC), Angel And The Badman [1947], Texas Terror [1935], Dad's Army - The Deadly Attachment [1968], Sergeant Rutledge [1960], In Old Arizona [1929] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Once Upon a Time in Italy: The Spaghetti Western Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC), Went the Day Well? [1942] (REGION 1) (NTSC), All Quiet on the Western Front [ 1958 ] Uncut & Uncensored, Shalako [1968] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Train [1964], Gung Ho [1943] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Rainbow Over Texas [1946], The Three Swords of Zorro [1960] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Charro! [1969], Combat America [1944] (NTSC), Ride The High Country [1962], The Gene Autry Collection [1934]

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Review MGM / The Sabata Trilogy: Sabata/Adios, Sabata/Return of Sabata [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

The Sabata Trilogy: Sabata/Adios, Sabata/Return of Sabata [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (MGM)

Actors & Directors

Ignazio Spalla
Yul Brynner
Lee Van Cleef
William Berger
Gianfranco Parolini
Dean Reed

Release date: 2005-10-18
Run time: 317 min.
Creator: Renato Izzo
Price: £14.92

Review The Sabata Trilogy: Sabata/Adios, Sabata/Return of Sabata [1969] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

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Review Sony Pictures / The Professionals [Blu-ray] [1966] [US Import]

The Professionals [Blu-ray] [1966] [US Import] (Sony Pictures)

Actors & Directors

Woody Strode
Lee Marvin
Richard Brooks
Burt Lancaster
Robert Ryan
Jack Palance

Release date: 2008-06-10
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: Frank O'Rourke
Price: £14.76

Review The Professionals [Blu-ray] [1966] [US Import] / Sony Pictures:

Director Richard Brooks' marvellous ode to friendship, loyalty and disillusionment The Professionals may not have the stylistic bravado or fatalistic doom of Sam Peckinpah's more famous The Wild Bunch, but Brooks' storytelling is simple and steady and just as insightful. The difference is that Brooks is a lot more optimistic. Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster are buddies who have drifted into oblivion after fighting together in the Mexican Revolution. Marvin, the principled loyalist and munitions expert, lost his wife and his heart. Lancaster, the dynamite expert and unprincipled adventurer, keeps losing his pants. They team up with wrangler Robert Ryan and archer Woody Strode to rescue the beguiling Claudia Cardinale, who has been kidnapped by their old revolutionary buddie Jack Palance. So it's back into bloody Mexico they go on a "mission of mercy" for railroad tycoon Ralph Bellamy, who's paying handsomely for the return of his wife. But nothing is what it seems in this exciting, existential adventure, which was beautifully shot by Conrad Hall. Sarcastic quips, philosophical musings and heart-rending reversals underlie Brooks' humanistic sentiments. These are tired, world-weary men who somehow find the strength and the will to pull together for the sake of love and commitment. [+]

Through it all, Brooks seems to be lamenting a decline in professionalism much deeper than his story. He's decrying Hollywood and the society at large, anticipating Peckinpah's later strategy. -Bill Desowitz.

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