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The Wild Geese (1978) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The Wild Geese is a 1978 war film starring an ensemble cast led by Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Krüger. The film, which was directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, was the result of a long-held ambition of producer Euan Lloyd to make an all-star adventure film in the vein of The Guns of Navarone or Where Eagles Dare.
With Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Krüger. A British banker hires a former British Army colonel turned mercenary to parachute into Africa with his team and rescue a deposed president of a southern African nation from the hands of a corrupt dictator.
- (14K)
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Andrew V. McLaglen
- 1978-11-11
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. Andrew V. McLaglen. Director. Daniel Carney. Novel. Reginald Rose. Screenplay. Full Cast & Crew. Reviews.
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Exciting, action-packed, impeccable cast (Roger Moore, Richard Burton, Richard Harrism, Hardy Kruger..) memorable characters and locations. Also, it has a touch of realism.
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- Action
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