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Release Date:
11 November 1978 (USA)
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Tagline:
The Dogs of War. The Best D*** Mercenaries in the Business!
Plot:
A British multinational seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of...
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1 win
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Richard Burton | ... | Col. Allen Faulkner |
 | Roger Moore | ... | Lt. Shawn Fynn |
 | Richard Harris | ... | Capt. Rafer Janders |
 | Hardy Krüger | ... | Lt. Pieter Coetze (as Hardy Kruger) |
| Stewart Granger | ... | Sir Edward Matherson |
| Winston Ntshona | ... | Julius Limbani |
| John Kani | ... | Sgt. Jesse Blake |
| Jack Watson | ... | RSM Sandy Young |
| Frank Finlay | ... | Fr. Geoghagen, the Priest |
| Kenneth Griffith | ... | Medical Orderly Arthur Witty |
| Barry Foster | ... | Thomas Balfour |
| Ronald Fraser | ... | Sgt. Jock McTaggart |
| Ian Yule | ... | Sgt. Tosh Donaldson |
| Patrick Allen | ... | Rushton |
| Rosalind Lloyd | ... | Heather |
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Runtime:
134 min
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Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
4-Track Stereo (London premiere print) |
Mono
Certification:
Singapore:PG |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-15 (uncut) (2005) (DVD) |
Finland:K-16 (cut) (1989) (video) |
Finland:K-16 (cut) (1978) (theatrical) |
Iceland:16 |
Netherlands:16 (original rating) |
Norway:15 |
Norway:16 (1978) |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
West Germany:16
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The film's European premiere, in London, was marred by demonstrations by anti-apartheid protesters angry that the film had been shot in South Africa with the cooperation of the then-white government there. They were also angry at the reported negative portrayal of black Africans, although none of the protesters had seen the film to verify this for themselves. The producers handed out to the crowds copies of favorable reviews in the Soweto Times, the largest circulation black newspaper in South Africa, but these were thrown away by the demonstrators.
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[as the enemy attacks]
Esposito: We're dead!
RSM Sandy Young: Esposito, you're not dead until I TELL you you're dead.
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Esposito: We're dead!
RSM Sandy Young: Esposito, you're not dead until I TELL you you're dead.
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Referenced in Geheimcode: Wildgänse (1984)
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Soundtrack:
Flight of the Wild Geese
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A splendid old-fashioned action film, with all concerned giving it their best shot.
A few people have objected to the average age of the actors in this film, from Burton to Kenneth Griffiths - but they don't seem to realise that the age of these mercernaries is the point. The Wild Geese is about a generation of men who demobbed from the Army after the Second World War, were unable to make peace work, and who sold their services as soldiers in the world's troublespots to the highest bidder. The late 1970's would have been the time of life that their age at last compromised their work, and the film is a recognition of the last of them.
For me this film is like a beloved childhood toy, kept and never forgotten - when it aired recently on television I just didn't want it to end.
Brilliant, gloriously sentimental and the anti-thesis of PC. 10/10