This Gary W. Tooze review of the recently-issued Blu-ray disc of Richard Brooks‘ The Professionals (1966) reminded me in a roundabout way that Lee Marvin had one of the most beautiful-sounding voices of any actor in the history of motion pictures. And I love Burt Lancaster‘s line about “nothing is harmless in this desert unless it’s dead.”
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