The Professionals

The Professionals (1966) is a classic American western directed by Richard Brooks — watch it online on iFILM. A wealthy Texas cattleman hires four specialists to ride into Mexico and bring back his wife, taken by a revolutionary named Raza. The job sounds clean. It isn't.

Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, and Woody Strode play the four men — each with a different skill, a different code, and a different limit. Jack Palance is Raza; Claudia Cardinale is the woman they've been sent to retrieve. Based on Frank O'Rourke's novel A Mule for the Marquesa, the film landed three Oscar nominations — for Brooks' direction, his screenplay, and Conrad Hall's camerawork across the desert landscapes.

What lifts it above a straightforward rescue mission is the question it quietly asks throughout: who exactly is the villain here? Stream The Professionals (1966) online on iFILM.