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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.
Theatrical
Nov 11, 1978
Box Office
$9.9M
Budget
$11.6M
Return
0.9x
DVD / Blu-ray
Sep 27, 2005
Director
Writer
Producer
Music
Studio
Richmond Productions, Varius Entertainment Trading A.G.
Keywords
The Wild Geese Collection
The Wild Geese is a British 1978 adventure film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen about a group of mercenaries in Africa. Euan Lloyd produced a sequel Wild Geese II (1985), based on the novel Square Circ...
Cast
Full credits →R
Richard Burton
Col. Allen Faulkner
R
Richard Harris
Capt. Rafer Janders
R
Roger Moore
Lt. Shawn Fynn
H
Hardy Krüger
Lt. Pieter Coetze
S
Stewart Granger
Sir Edward Matherson
J
John Kani
Sgt. Jesse Blake
J
Jack Watson
RSM Sandy Young
F
Frank Finlay
Fr. Geoghagen
K
Kenneth Griffith
Arthur Witty
R
Ronald Fraser
Sgt. Jock McTaggart
B
Barry Foster
Thomas Balfour
W
Winston Ntshona
Julius Limbani
P
Percy Herbert
Keith
I
Ian Yule
Tosh Donaldson
G
Glyn Baker
Esposito
P
Paul Spurrier
Emile Janders
R
Rosalind Lloyd
Heather
D
David Ladd
Sonny Martinelli
J
Jeff Corey
Mr Martin
P
Patrick Allen
Rushton
