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The Professionals Movie Set, Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada
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The Professionals with Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, and Claudia Cardinale was filmed in 1966. The entire film took 87 days to shoot, and most of that (nine weeks of the total shooting schedule) took place at Valley of Fire State Park. Part of the movie set still exists along the White Domes Trail.
In the film, a wealthy Texan hires four men to rescue his wife, who was kidnapped by a notorious Mexican bandit.
Adapted from the novel A Mule for the Marquesa by Frank O’Rourke, the film was a huge success, receiving three nominations at the 1967 Academy Awards and winning two Motion Picture Magazine Laurel Awards in 1967, among many other notable achievements.
Other parts of the movie were also filmed at Lake Mead and in Las Vegas.
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