The Wild Geese (movie)

The Wild Geese (movie)

  • User score: 6.8
  • Production country: United Kingdom, Switzerland
  • Producer: Andrew V. McLaglen
  • Production companies: Richmond Productions
  • Genre: Action
  • Budget: $11,600,000
  • Revenue: $9,900,000
  • Release date: 6/28/1978
  • Run time: 134 min.

Movie description

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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Roger Moore

Roger Moore

Role(s): Lt. Shawn Fynn

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Richard Harris

Richard Harris

Role(s): Capt. Rafer Janders

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Hardy Krüger

Hardy Krüger

Role(s): Lt. Pieter Coetze

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Richard Burton

Richard Burton

Role(s): Col. Allen Faulkner

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Stewart Granger

Stewart Granger

Role(s): Sir Edward Matherson

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