Movie

The Wild Geese

1978★ 6.8 · 2852h 14mAction

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.

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Cast

Richard Harris
as Capt. Rafer Janders

Roger Moore
as Lt. Shawn Fynn

Richard Burton
as Col. Allen Faulkner

Barry Foster
as Thomas Balfour

David Ladd
as Sonny Martinelli

Patrick Allen
as Rushton

John Kani
as Sgt. Jesse Blake

Stewart Granger
as Sir Edward Matherson

Hardy Krüger
as Lt. Pieter Coetze

Greg Powell
as Mercenary

Anna Bergman
as Sonny's Girlfriend

Frank Finlay
as Fr. Geoghagen

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Release date: 1978-06-28

Budget: $11,600,000

Revenue: $9,900,000

Runtime: 2h 14m

Genres

Action

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