The Wild Geese
1978, Film, 134 min, Action, Adventure, Drama, English, United Kingdom, MoviePedia score 67
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.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast
- Richard Burton as Colonel Allen Faulkner
- Roger Moore as Lt. Shawn Fynn
- Richard Harris as Capt. Rafer Janders
- Hardy Krüger as Lt. Pieter Coetzee
- Stewart Granger as Sir Edward Matherson
- Winston Ntshona as President Julius Limbani
- John Kani as Sgt. Jesse Link
- Jack Watson as R.S.M. Sandy Young
- Frank Finlay as Father Geoghagen
- Kenneth Griffith as Arthur Witty
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