The Wild Geese
Released: June 28, 1978Runtime: 134 min
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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Richard Burton
as Colonel Allen Faulkner
Roger Moore
as Lt. Shawn Fynn
Richard Harris
as Capt. Rafer Janders
Hardy Kruger
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Stewart Granger
as Sir Edward Matherson
Winston Ntshona
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John Kani
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Jack Watson
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Frank Finlay
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Kenneth Griffith
as Arthur Witty
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