
The Specialists(1969)
Hud Dixon returns to his hometown when his brother is killed by a lynch mob.


“Fate brought them together, greed made them inseparable, and violence made them Compañeros!”
Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.

Franco Nero
Yodlaf Peterson

Tomas Milian
El Vasco

Jack Palance
John

Fernando Rey
Prof. Xantos

Iris Berben
Lola

José Bódalo
General Mongo Alvarez

Karin Schubert
Zaire Harris

Eduardo Fajardo
Colonel

Gino Pernice
Tourneur

Tito García
Tiger
Compañeros is a western film released in 1970 exploring themes of marriage, coin, train, buddy, noose, hawk. Directed by Sergio Corbucci, it stars Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance. Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.
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