The Professionals is a 1960 British crime thriller, directed by Don Sharp and starring William Lucas, Andrew Faulds and Colette Wilde.

Lawson then wants to rob a city bank and enlists the services of safe cracker Philip Bowman, who is just out of prison and is about to marry his girlfriend, Ruth.

The job of directing eventually went to Don Sharp, who had been going to make another film written by Barnes, Echo of Barbara, that does not seem to have been made.

"[1] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The planning along the lines of a military operation, the trek through the sewers, the night watchman and his cat, the tear-gas and the fatal slip – these have quickly become the new stereotypes of the bank robbery nerve-stretcher.

This tame and unconvincing example adds nothing new, unless it be an excruciatingly lady-like heroine, and no one connected with its execution, except perhaps William Lucas, appears to have taken the title very seriously.