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Title: The Wild Geese (1978)
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Richard Burton | ... | Colonel Allen Faulkner | |
| Roger Moore | ... | Lt. Shawn Fynn | |
| Richard Harris | ... | Capt. Rafer Janders | |
| Hardy Krüger | ... | Lt. Pieter Coetzee (as Hardy Kruger) | |
| Stewart Granger | ... | Sir Edward Matherson | |
| Winston Ntshona | ... | President Julius Limbani | |
| John Kani | ... | Sgt. Jesse Link | |
| Jack Watson | ... | R.S.M. Sandy Young | |
| Frank Finlay | ... | Father Geoghagen | |
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Kenneth Griffith | ... | Arthur Witty |
| Barry Foster | ... | Thomas Balfour | |
| Ronald Fraser | ... | Jock McTaggart | |
| Ian Yule | ... | Tosh Donaldson | |
| Patrick Allen | ... | Rushton | |
| Rosalind Lloyd | ... | Heather | |
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A British multinational 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. Written by Richard Young <richy@vnu.co.uk>
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The Dogs of War... The Best **** Mercenaries in the Business! See more »Parents Guide:
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
11 November 1978 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$10,000,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
$1,423,104, 31 December 1978Company Credits
Production Co:
Richmond Film Productions (West), Victory Films, Varius Entertainment Trading A.G. See more »
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Color (Eastmancolor) (uncredited)Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1
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The music, by Roy Budd, originally included an overture and end title music, but both of these were replaced by "Flight of the Wild Geese". See more »Goofs
During Fynn and Coetzee's first meeting in the pub, the volume of beer in their glasses increases and decreases between shots. See more »Alternate Versions
NBC edited 12 minutes from this film for its 1982 network television premiere. See more »Connections
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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