The Wild Geese

November. 11,1978      R
Rating:
6.8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Roger Moore as  Lt. Shawn Fynn
Richard Harris as  Capt. Rafer Janders
Hardy Krüger as  Lt. Pieter Coetze
Richard Burton as  Col. Allen Faulkner
Stewart Granger as  Sir Edward Matherson
John Kani as  Sgt. Jesse Blake
Jack Watson as  RSM Sandy Young
Frank Finlay as  Fr. Geoghagen
Kenneth Griffith as  Arthur Witty
Ronald Fraser as  Sgt. Jock McTaggart

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