Wow! What a Pedigree, the great Richard Burton (1925 1984), and Richard Harris (1930 2002). Including too, Roger Moore, Hardy Kruger, and not forgetting the legendary Stewart Granger (1913 1993), all together in one movie!
This classic war movie The Wild Geese, was released in 1978, and being the story of a team of British Mercenaries, who are deployed in Africa, to retake a kidnapped African leader, before his execution, and bring him back safely, all with in three hours. That is until
Based on an unpublished novel by Daniel Carney, "The Thin White Line", and being Producer Euan Lloyd's dream to make a war film of similar magnitude to The Guns of Navarone (1961). This is a very gritty and extremely down to earth war film indeed. With an expert tutor residing amongst the cast, this was to be the real life ex-mercenary, Ian Yule, who plays Tosh. With a good pace for adventure and a very good eye for realism, The Wild Geese delivers itself with gusto and the sense of camaraderie that is the team The Wild Geese. Never failing to shock, with plenty of machetes, knives, bombs, bullets and the odd crossbow to keep ones stomach churning.
The Wild Geese is now, by today's standard, slightly antiquated, being a movie of the late 1970's. Nevertheless, this is not a bad thing, for The Wild Geese most certainly at its time, and by today's standards, is not Politically Correct. This depending on how and where you see this movie today, no doubt.
Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, born in the Caribbean in 1950, has the job of writing and performing the theme tune during the opening credits, titled "The Flight of The Wild Geese", an accomplished singer and a very talented musician.
Filmed during the Apartheid years of South Africa of the mid 1970's, The Wild Geese has an interesting sub plot, involving the characters Lt. Pieter Coetze, played by the White Hardy Kruger and the Black Leader Julius Limbani. The connection between Col. Allen Faulkner, Capt. Rafer Janders, and Janders ten-year-old son Emile, is a very heart-warming sub plot too, considering the bloodthirsty occupations of these men.
The Wild Geese has a huge Classic cast, ranging from all parts of the Globe, such as England, Wales, Ireland, Germany and America, with this sort of calibre, this movie would never let its self down, if it did, then, I know, I wouldn't want The Wild Geese flying in my direction.
This classic war movie The Wild Geese, was released in 1978, and being the story of a team of British Mercenaries, who are deployed in Africa, to retake a kidnapped African leader, before his execution, and bring him back safely, all with in three hours. That is until
Based on an unpublished novel by Daniel Carney, "The Thin White Line", and being Producer Euan Lloyd's dream to make a war film of similar magnitude to The Guns of Navarone (1961). This is a very gritty and extremely down to earth war film indeed. With an expert tutor residing amongst the cast, this was to be the real life ex-mercenary, Ian Yule, who plays Tosh. With a good pace for adventure and a very good eye for realism, The Wild Geese delivers itself with gusto and the sense of camaraderie that is the team The Wild Geese. Never failing to shock, with plenty of machetes, knives, bombs, bullets and the odd crossbow to keep ones stomach churning.
The Wild Geese is now, by today's standard, slightly antiquated, being a movie of the late 1970's. Nevertheless, this is not a bad thing, for The Wild Geese most certainly at its time, and by today's standards, is not Politically Correct. This depending on how and where you see this movie today, no doubt.
Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, born in the Caribbean in 1950, has the job of writing and performing the theme tune during the opening credits, titled "The Flight of The Wild Geese", an accomplished singer and a very talented musician.
Filmed during the Apartheid years of South Africa of the mid 1970's, The Wild Geese has an interesting sub plot, involving the characters Lt. Pieter Coetze, played by the White Hardy Kruger and the Black Leader Julius Limbani. The connection between Col. Allen Faulkner, Capt. Rafer Janders, and Janders ten-year-old son Emile, is a very heart-warming sub plot too, considering the bloodthirsty occupations of these men.
The Wild Geese has a huge Classic cast, ranging from all parts of the Globe, such as England, Wales, Ireland, Germany and America, with this sort of calibre, this movie would never let its self down, if it did, then, I know, I wouldn't want The Wild Geese flying in my direction.