The Wild Geese

1978

6.8 из 10

264 votes

Popularity

1.2

Duration

134 min / 2 hour 14 min

Budget

$11 600 000

Fees in the world

$9 900 000

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Release date

1978.06.28

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.

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The Wild Geese is a British 1978 adventure film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen about a group of mercenaries in Africa. Euan Lloyd produced a sequel Wild Geese II (1985), based on the novel Square Circle, also by Daniel Carney.