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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.
The Flight of the Wild Geese was the departure of an Irish Jacobite army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on 3 October 1691, following the end of the Williamite War in Ireland.
Nov 11, 1978 · The Wild Geese: Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. With Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Krüger. A British banker hires a group of British mercenaries to rescue a deposed African President from the hands of a corrupt African dictator.
The Wild Geese is a 1978 novel by Rhodesian author Daniel Carney published by Bantam Books. He originally titled it The Thin White Line , but it went unpublished until its film adaptation The Wild Geese was made.
In “The Wild Geese,” for example, we observe the following formula: A mercenary soldier (Richard Burton) is hired to parachute into an African nation and rescue the captive head of a populist political movement.
Mercenaries (Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris) for a London banker parachute into Africa to put a useful president back in power.
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Lt. Pieter Coetzee (Hardy Krüger), is a South African mercenary who only wants to return to his homeland and buy a farm, but can barely afford to pay his rent in London. Captain Rafer Janders (Richard Harris) is hired as an experienced mission planner.
The Wild Geese (1978) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Wild Geese II is a 1985 British action-thriller film directed by Peter Hunt, based on the 1982 novel The Square Circle by Daniel Carney, in which a group of mercenaries are hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
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.
