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The Wild Geese
The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese

1978 134 min ★ 6.8 Action, Adventure, Thriller, War

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.

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Cast

Richard Burton

Richard Burton

Col. Allen Faulkner

Richard Harris

Richard Harris

Capt. Rafer Janders

Roger Moore

Roger Moore

Lt. Shawn Fynn

Hardy Krüger

Hardy Krüger

Lt. Pieter Coetze

Stewart Granger

Stewart Granger

Sir Edward Matherson

John Kani

John Kani

Sgt. Jesse Blake

Jack Watson

Jack Watson

RSM Sandy Young

Frank Finlay

Frank Finlay

Fr. Geoghagen

Kenneth Griffith

Kenneth Griffith

Arthur Witty

Ronald Fraser

Ronald Fraser

Sgt. Jock McTaggart

Details

Director

Andrew V. McLaglen

Screenplay

Reginald Rose

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$11,600,000

Revenue

$9,900,000

Production

Richmond Productions, Varius Entertainment Trading A.G.

Reviews

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Dark Jedi

March 17, 2013

★ 6/10

Yesterday we sat down to watch another oldie that I had seen when I was younger quite some years ago. I remember this movie being quite high on my list of movies that I appreciated as a kid so when I saw it coming it on Blu-ray I had to get it. It is still a decent film but I remembered it as better. The story is a fairly old a frequently reused one. Band of mercenary gets a mission by some per...

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John Chard

March 15, 2019

★ 8/10

The man is dead, Mr. Faulkner. Now only the spirit remains. Marvellously macho, a men on a mission movie proudly proclaiming that the old adage is indeed true, there is life in the old dog(s) yet. A notable cast of British and Irish thespians were rounded up and unleashed into a plot that required a band of mercenaries sent to extract an African President from some prison in the darkest part ...

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CinemaSerf

June 4, 2023

★ 7/10

Stewart Granger hires Richard Burton's "Col. Faulkner" to put together a crack team, money no object, to fly to southern Africa and rescue the deposed president "Limbani" (Winston Ntshona). Meantime, his erstwhile colleague, poor old Roger Moore ("Flynn") in on the run from the London mob after he persuaded the nephew of one of their number to overdose on strychnine-laden heroine; and Richard Harr...

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