Directed by:
Richard BrooksScreenplay:
Richard BrooksCinematography:
Conrad L. HallComposer:
Maurice JarreCast:
Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Ralph Bellamy, Marie Gomez, Elizabeth Campbell, Vaughn Taylor (more)Plots(1)
A team of soldiers-for-hire is hired by an American businessman to rescue his kidnapped wife, held hostage by a renegade band of thugs in Mexico. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
![Burt Lancaster](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/384/164384699_2ca976.png)
Burt Lancaster
USA
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Life of Verdi (1982) (series)
1900 (1976)
![Lee Marvin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/262/163262252_b6f78f.jpg)
Lee Marvin
USA
Best movies:
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
![Robert Ryan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/273/273144_e6909f.jpg)
Robert Ryan
USA
Best movies:
The Longest Day (1962)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
![Woody Strode](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/805/165805044_804905.jpg)
Woody Strode
USA
Best movies:
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Spartacus (1960)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
![Jack Palance](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/420/164420114_577d71.png)
Jack Palance
USA
Best movies:
Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon (2003) (music video)
The Cop in Blue Jeans (1976)
Sudden Fear (1952)
![Claudia Cardinale](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/268/268966_68e050.jpg)
Claudia Cardinale
Tunisia
Best movies:
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The French Revolution (1989) (TV movie)
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
![Ralph Bellamy](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272319_ce221a.jpg)
Ralph Bellamy
USA
Best movies:
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Trading Places (1983)
One Man Mutiny (1955)
Marie Gomez
Best movies:
The Professionals (1966)
Barquero (1970)
Rio Conchos (1964)
Elizabeth Campbell
USA
Best movies:
The Professionals (1966)
![Vaughn Taylor](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/000/159000233_61451c.gif)
Vaughn Taylor
USA
Best movies:
Psycho (1960)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
![Carlos Romero](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/163/160163470_706476.jpg)
Carlos Romero
USA
Best movies:
The Professionals (1966)
The Don Is Dead (1973)
They Came to Cordura (1959)
![Joe De Santis](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/511/160511063_ddca25.gif)
Joe De Santis
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Professionals (1966)
I Want to Live! (1958)
Leigh Chapman
USA
Best movies:
The Professionals (1966)
After the Storm (2001)
![Eddie Little Sky](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/622/160622327_8210c3.jpg)
Eddie Little Sky
USA
Best movies:
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Cimarron (1960)
Soldier Blue (1970)
José Chávez
Mexico
Best movies:
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Rafael Bertrand
Cuba
Best movies:
The Professionals (1966)
800 Leagues Over the Amazon (1958)
Black Pit of Dr. M (1959)
![Jorge Martínez de Hoyos](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/436/161436793_d92505.png)
Jorge Martínez de Hoyos
Mexico
Best movies:
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Lonesome Dove (1989) (series)
The Professionals (1966)
John McKee
USA
Best movies:
The Big Country (1958)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Showdown (1963)
![Roberto Contreras](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/162/681/162681503_d6244f.jpg)
Roberto Contreras
USA
Best movies:
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Scarface (1983)
Blood In, Blood Out (1993)
Henry O'Brien
USA
Best movies:
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
The Professionals (1966)
The Pistolero of Red River (1967)