The Think Defence Top 20 British War Film Countdown Chosen not on their artistic merit, historical accuracy or 100% Britishness but just because I think they are great and well worth a watch. Details - The Wild GeeseCast; Richard Burton Colonel Faulkner, Roger Moore Lt. Shawn Fynn, Richard HarrisCapt. Rafer Janders, Hardy Krüger (as Hardy Kruger) Lt. Pieter Coetzee Certificate; R Release Date; Sat Nov 11 1978 IMDB Rating; 6.7 Runtime (Runtime in minutes); 134 Tagline (Branding slogan); The Dogs of War. The Best D*** Mercenaries in the Business! Writers; Reginald Rose (screenplay), Daniel Carney (novel)
One Last Pay Day… One More Chance To Die! Legendary hell-raisers Richard Burton and Richard Harris, along with a coolly detached Roger Moore are aging mercenaries with a taste for fine liquor, drawn together for a late but extremely lucrative pay day in The Wild Geese, an African adventure soaked in booze, gunfire and bloodshed. Colonel Allen Faulkner (Burton) is secretly back in London to accept the task of reinstating an African leader deposed in a violent military coup, but without the combat skills of his two old friends, there isn t going to be a mission. With his two reliable loose cannons in place, Faulkner and the team enact a text book rescue operation but disaster is close at hand when the cynical multinational who set up the whole deal turns the tables, striking a new deal with the local despot which sees The Wild Geese trying to escape with their lives intact. The Wild Geese are ready for one last mission so finish your drinks and relive this classic old school British action adventure today.
Watch it because…Am on a bit of an SLR run here, yet more (kind of) on display but even they were upstages by a certain Mr Vickers. The freefall scene is also bloody fantastic.
Joan Armatrading even does a pretty good theme song, what more could you want?
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