The Professionals - question about cuts.
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The Professionals - question about cuts.
I am sure there are people on here that know this movie better than me, I last saw it on TV about 30 years ago. But I picked up the new SE and watched it last night.
There is a sequence early on in the movie where they encounter their first bunch of Mexican bandits in a pass and discover that Burt Lancaster has been captured and is hanging upside down, and they surround and ambush them.
Lee Marvin takes a long machete from one of the bandits, but there are some very quick cutaways and you never see him actually hit anyone with it, and in a matter of seconds all of the villiains are despatched.
Like I say, because it's been a very long time since I saw it, I have no idea if this sequence was originally intact or not, but it is heavily edited in this version.
Does anyone know the history of cuts as regards this movie?
There is a sequence early on in the movie where they encounter their first bunch of Mexican bandits in a pass and discover that Burt Lancaster has been captured and is hanging upside down, and they surround and ambush them.
Lee Marvin takes a long machete from one of the bandits, but there are some very quick cutaways and you never see him actually hit anyone with it, and in a matter of seconds all of the villiains are despatched.
Like I say, because it's been a very long time since I saw it, I have no idea if this sequence was originally intact or not, but it is heavily edited in this version.
Does anyone know the history of cuts as regards this movie?
