The Wild Geese (1978)

R06/28/1978Action2h 14m
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Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Roger Moore

    Lt. Shawn Fynn

  2. Cast 1

    Richard Harris

    Capt. Rafer Janders

  3. Cast 1

    Hardy Krüger

    Lt. Pieter Coetze

  4. Cast 1

    Richard Burton

    Col. Allen Faulkner

  5. Cast 1

    Stewart Granger

    Sir Edward Matherson

  6. Cast 1

    John Kani

    Sgt. Jesse Blake

  7. Cast 1

    Jack Watson

    RSM Sandy Young

  8. Cast 1

    Frank Finlay

    Fr. Geoghagen

  9. Cast 1

    Kenneth Griffith

    Arthur Witty

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 of Africa. The formula is tried and tested, the leader is a man made of stern stuff but carrying emotional baggage, his band of men assembled are a mixture of ex soldiers who have either fell on hard ...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$11,600,000.00

Revenue $9,900,000.00

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