‘The Professionals’: A South-of-the-Border Buddy Adventure

Burt Lancaster plays a rogue in this ‘save the damsel in distress’ feature. For over four decades, Burton Stephen Lancaster, better known as Burt Lancaster, captivated audiences with his versatile acting skills, transitioning seamlessly from the stage to the studio. Despite an association with rugged and scurrilous characters, Lancaster proved his range as an actor. Lancaster portrays a roguish figure in the 1966 film “The Professionals,” directed by Richard Brooks and based on Frank O'Rourke’s novel “A Mule for the Marquesa.” The wife of a wealthy Texas cattle rancher Grant...