"The Professionals," a 1965 motion picture starring Burt Lancaster and Lee Marvin, was filmed entirely in the United States, whose desert southwest was portrayed as being north central Mexico.
Opening with the title credit was a background of an adobe brick wall of a burned out building. The wall had numerous pock marks, probably bullet marks, plus graffiti with phrases like "viva Villa," etc. This location was shown twice more as extended locations. Is the wall still standing perhaps as a tourist or scenic location?
There is a extended scene of protagonists and Mexicans during a horrendous sand storm. People wore face scarves to protect themselves. Horses and mules did not. As your best judgment, how severely were the animals eyes and respiratory tracts damaged by the effect from huge fans blowing the sand to create the storm special effect?
All of the handguns were Colts. I've observed that essentially no revolvers in motion pictures were S&W solid frame double action revolvers until the 1950s. In reality were Colt double action revolvers so dominant in the United States, again, until the 1950s?
Opening with the title credit was a background of an adobe brick wall of a burned out building. The wall had numerous pock marks, probably bullet marks, plus graffiti with phrases like "viva Villa," etc. This location was shown twice more as extended locations. Is the wall still standing perhaps as a tourist or scenic location?
There is a extended scene of protagonists and Mexicans during a horrendous sand storm. People wore face scarves to protect themselves. Horses and mules did not. As your best judgment, how severely were the animals eyes and respiratory tracts damaged by the effect from huge fans blowing the sand to create the storm special effect?
All of the handguns were Colts. I've observed that essentially no revolvers in motion pictures were S&W solid frame double action revolvers until the 1950s. In reality were Colt double action revolvers so dominant in the United States, again, until the 1950s?
