A British banker hires a group of British mercenaries to rescue a deposed African President from the hands of a corrupt African dictator.A British banker hires a group of British mercenaries to rescue a deposed African President from the hands of a corrupt African dictator.A British banker hires a group of British mercenaries to rescue a deposed African President from the hands of a corrupt African dictator.
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- 1 win & 1 nomination
Hardy Krüger
- Lt. Pieter Coetzee
- (as Hardy Kruger)
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- TriviaThe producers originally wanted Burt Lancaster for the role of Rafer Janders, but when he began submitting alterations to the script to give his character the central role, he was replaced with Richard Harris. Lancaster claimed to have turned the part down because he felt the movie was "inferior".
- GoofsWhen Shaun (Roger Moore) confronts the two mafia men, the bodyguard goes for his pistol and is shot in the head. The sound Shaun's pistol makes sounds like a silenced shot, but his pistol has no silencer on it.
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RSM Sandy Young: Sir! With respect, you can stick the money up your arse that's all I can offer you sir. - I love what I do, I also love these grubby, thickheaded men I trained - you most of all and I expect to be with them and with you because I'm needed. You want to see a REAL revolution? Try and stop me.
- Alternate versionsNBC edited 12 minutes from this film for its 1982 network television premiere.
- SoundtracksFlight of the Wild Geese
Written and Performed by Joan Armatrading
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Last Hurrah
A splendid old-fashioned action film, with all concerned giving it their best shot.
A few people have objected to the average age of the actors in this film, from Burton to Kenneth Griffiths - but they don't seem to realise that the age of these mercernaries is the point. The Wild Geese is about a generation of men who demobbed from the Army after the Second World War, were unable to make peace work, and who sold their services as soldiers in the world's troublespots to the highest bidder. The late 1970's would have been the time of life that their age at last compromised their work, and the film is a recognition of the last of them.
For me this film is like a beloved childhood toy, kept and never forgotten - when it aired recently on television I just didn't want it to end.
Brilliant, gloriously sentimental and the anti-thesis of PC. 10/10
A few people have objected to the average age of the actors in this film, from Burton to Kenneth Griffiths - but they don't seem to realise that the age of these mercernaries is the point. The Wild Geese is about a generation of men who demobbed from the Army after the Second World War, were unable to make peace work, and who sold their services as soldiers in the world's troublespots to the highest bidder. The late 1970's would have been the time of life that their age at last compromised their work, and the film is a recognition of the last of them.
For me this film is like a beloved childhood toy, kept and never forgotten - when it aired recently on television I just didn't want it to end.
Brilliant, gloriously sentimental and the anti-thesis of PC. 10/10
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