Academy Award winners Burt Lancaster (1960 Best Actor, Elmer Gentry) and Lee Marvin (1965 Best Actor, Cat Ballou) headline the top-notch, rip-roaring Western action/adventure The Professionals. Four soldiers of fortune are hired by a wealthy Texas oil baron (Ralph Bellamy) to rescue his kidnapped wife (Claudia Cardinale), who's been spirited across the Mexican border by a band of mercenaries led by Jesus Raza (Jack Palance, Academy Award winner, 1991 Best Supporting Actor, City Slickers). They make their way across the treacherous landscape to retrieve the beautiful kidnappee, but discover all is not what it seems in the explosive climax.

The Professionals garnered three 1966 Academy Award nominations, two for Richard Brooks (Best Direction and Best Adapted Screenplay) and another for esteemed cinematographer Conrad Hall (Best Cinematographer).