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  • The Professionals / Jack Palance

    ” … Without love, without a cause, we are… *nothing*!
    We stay because we believe. We leave because we are disillusioned.
    We come back because we are lost. We die because we are committed …”

    – Jack Palance as Jesus Raza

    The Professionals Palance

    Jack Palance Westerns 

    Shane 1953 / Arrowhead 1953 / The Lonely Man 1957 / The Professionals 1966 / The Mercenary 1968 / The Desperados 1969/ Companeros 1970 / Monte Walsh 1970 / The McMasters 1970 / Sting of the West 1972 / Chato’s Land 1972 / It Can Be Done Amigo 1972 / The Godchild 1974 / God’s Gun 1976 / The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang 1979 / Welcome to Blood City 1984 / Young Guns 1988 / City Slickers 1991 / City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold 1994 / Buffalo Girls 1995 / Monte Walsh 2003

     

  • The Professionals ? … Marketing Anomalies …

    The Professionals didn’t seem to indulge in a lot of marketing promotion. Possibly (credibly) relying on it’s AllStar cast to carry it.
    But some of marketing images are still a bit of a head scratcher.
    Like this:

    The Professionals Marketing
    The Professionals DVD Cover / Poster

    This DVD cover/poster headlines “Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance and Ralph Bellamy“. But … ? the image shows Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Marvin, Ryan and Woody Strode.
    Palance and Bellamy are Billed, but not pictured. Cardinale and Strode are pictured, but not Billed.
    ???

    This can only be attributed to contractual agreements regarding who would get Billed ahead of who … whom? I guess.

    Even stranger: As shown below, Cardinale did not even appear in the original photo, but she was cleverly inserted later – between Lancaster and Marvin.
    YET … she is not even identified on the Bill !! ??

    Why bother?

    The Professionals Black and White
    The Professionals – The original image

    Here’s another:

    The Professionals Marketing 2
    The Professionals

    Again, we have actors Billed (Lancaster, Palance, Bellamy) – but not pictured.
    And actors pictured (Cardinale, Strode), but not Billed.

    I know it’s hot out there in the desert, but …

    How hot is it? Check this:

    The Professionals Marketing Claudia
    The Professionals

    Whew … it’s sweaty out here in the desert.
    Who are those slobs in the background?
    (Foreign marketers had no problem showing where their interest lies.)

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