The Wild Geese (1978)

6.7	Listal rating
6.6	IMDB rating

War (5), Action (4), Adventure (3), Africa (3), Drama (3), Revenge (2), Mission (2), 1978 (2), Escape (2), Aging (2), Mercenary (2), Mercenaries (2), Tribe (2), 1970s (2), Prison Camp (2), Soldier (2), Parachuting (2), Betrayal (2), Boot Camp (2), Rescue (2)

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Directed by

Andrew V. McLaglen

Starring (View all) :

Col. Allen Faulkner

Lt. Shawn Fynn

Capt. Rafer Janders

Lt. Pieter Coetze

Sir Edward Matherson

Julius Limbani

Sgt. Jesse Blake

RSM Sandy Young

Fr. Geoghagen, the Priest

Kenneth Griffith

Medical Orderly Arthur Witty

Written by (View all) :

Daniel Carney

novel

Reginald Rose

screenplay

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6.7/10
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PvtCaboose91

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

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