wild geese and unforgettable music.

Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. With Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris. Visit IMDb for Photos, Showtimes, Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary,The Wild Geese is a British 1978 film about a group of mercenaries in Africa. It stars Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Krüger. The film was the result of a long-held ambition of its producer Euan Lloyd to make an all-star adventure film similar to The Guns of Navarone or Where Eagles Dare.

The film was based on an unpublished novel titled The Thin White Line by Daniel Carney. The film was re-named The Wild Geese after a 17th-century Irish mercenary army (see Flight of the Wild Geese) and Carney's novel was subsequently published under that title by Corgi Books.

The novel was based upon rumors and speculation following the 1968 landing of a mysterious aeroplane in Rhodesia, which was said to have been loaded with mercenaries and "an African President" believed to have been a dying Moise Tshombe

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[htrrz]

@snipper1ie I have not seen them, but for a copy you might check ebay, or ioffer, for tapes or dvds. I have not seen the Stewart Granger film, but check TCM film site to see it it might be going to be shown, I seem to remember them showing it once.

[snipper1ie]

@htrrz Have you found The Last Grenade somewhere on here? Anyone come upon The Legions Last Patrol starring Stewart Grainger?

[Trek001]

@moorevayne He was (at time of filming) an actual Merc who brought in his old Merc CO as an advisor

[austrorus]

burton and harris drank like fish but still could act like no one else did or ever will.

[moorevayne]

the SAS guy (tosh) is the real badass

[82abnoff]

I was in Livingston, MT. He and ? A gun bullet hole in the wall.

There were mountains,  and ?

If you do not have wings, you are shit.

r

[1202firefly]

The other good movie is The Cross of Iron by Sam Peckinpah

[michaelpeirce]

I saw this just before I went to war in Rhodesia. And then again after the war. I still loved the movie but was very suprised that Uzi's were louder than FN FAL rifles! And I sure could have used some of those atomic grenades! T

hose Simba bums wouldn't have had a chance against my pals in the Rhodesian African Rifles!

Cheers

Reb

[darkpassengers]

One of the best films of all time.

[Mwshjr1]

Alan! Alan kill me! For gods sake kill me!