The Wild Geese

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.

Cast

Roger Moore

as Lt. Shawn Fynn

Richard Harris

as Capt. Rafer Janders

Hardy Krüger

as Lt. Pieter Coetze

Richard Burton

as Col. Allen Faulkner

Stewart Granger

as Sir Edward Matherson

John Kani

as Sgt. Jesse Blake

Jack Watson

as RSM Sandy Young

Frank Finlay

as Fr. Geoghagen

Kenneth Griffith

as Arthur Witty

Ronald Fraser

as Sgt. Jock McTaggart

Reviews

Per Gunnar Jonsson

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...

John Chard

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 requi...

CinemaSerf

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 p...

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