The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese

6.8IMDb Score
Released:1978-06-28
Genre:Action
Duration:134 min
Country:United Kingdom, Switzerland
Director:Andrew V. McLaglen
Actors:Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Roger Moore, Hardy Krüger, Stewart Granger
Production:Richmond Productions, Varius Entertainment Trading A.G.

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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