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The Wild Geese
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Title: The Wild Geese

Release Date: 28 Jun 1978

Runtime: 2h 14m

Genre: Action

Director: Richmond Productions

Production Companies: Richmond Productions

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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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.8 (258 votes)

Cast

  • Lt. Shawn Fynn: Roger Moore
  • Capt. Rafer Janders: Richard Harris
  • Lt. Pieter Coetze: Hardy Krüger
  • Col. Allen Faulkner: Richard Burton
  • Sir Edward Matherson: Stewart Granger
  • Sgt. Jesse Blake: John Kani
  • RSM Sandy Young: Jack Watson
  • Fr. Geoghagen: Frank Finlay
  • Arthur Witty: Kenneth Griffith
  • Sgt. Jock McTaggart: Ronald Fraser
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