The Wild Geese
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. Released: 1978
Casts:
Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Krüger, Stewart Granger, John Kani, Jack Watson, Frank Finlay, Kenneth Griffith, Ronald Fraser, Barry Foster, Winston Ntshona, Percy Herbert, Ian Yule, Glyn Baker, Paul Spurrier, Rosalind Lloyd, David Ladd, Jeff Corey, Brook Williams, Valerie Leon, Leslie Schofield, Jane Hylton, Sydney Chama, Ken Gampu, Patrick Holt, Terence Longdon, John Dennison, Thomas Baptiste, Jules Walters, Fred Bryant, Anna Bergman, Suzanne Danielle, Chris Chittell