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The Wild Geese (1978)

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6.6 IMDB rating

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Starring (View all) :
Richard Burton

Richard Burton

Col. Allen Faulkner
Roger Moore

Roger Moore

Lt. Shawn Fynn
Richard Harris

Richard Harris

Capt. Rafer Janders
Hardy Krüger

Hardy Krüger

Lt. Pieter Coetze
Stewart Granger

Stewart Granger

Sir Edward Matherson
Winston Ntshona

Winston Ntshona

Julius Limbani
John Kani

John Kani

Sgt. Jesse Blake
Jack Watson

Jack Watson

RSM Sandy Young
Frank Finlay

Frank Finlay

Fr. Geoghagen, the Priest
Kenneth Griffith

Kenneth Griffith

Medical Orderly Arthur Witty


Written by (View all) :
Reginald Rose

Reginald Rose

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Classic Brit Action Movie

Posted : 12 minutes, 58 seconds ago at Nov 22 10:00
"Good luck to you, you Godless murderers. " Based on the novel by Daniel Carney, The Wild Geese is a classic British action-adventure movie which follows the tried-and-true formula successfully mined in such films as The Dirty Dozen and The Guns of Navarone. It's a remarkable combination of male bonding, military stereotypes, detailed briefings, last-minute snafus, double-crosses and (above all) epic, violent shootouts. Yet this venture is also inherently British, and it's all the better for it. The plotline is your usual men-on-a-mission tale with a few extra twists. High-powered banker Edward Matherson (Granger) hires a faded mercenary named Allan Faulkner (Burton) to assemble a band of mercenaries to execute an assignment in Africa. Their mission is to rescue imprisoned former Afr...Read more