Geheimcode: Wildgänse (1984)

Director:

Antonio Margheriti

Writers:

Tito Carpi (writer)
Gianfranco Couyoumdjian (writer)

Release Date:

September 1986 (USA)

Genre:

Action | War

Tagline:

This is a corporation of businessmen... Their business is war. For them, the jungle and the city are the same.

Plot:

A band of mercenaries are hired to fight a Burmese opium warlord in the Golden Triangle area of southeast Asia. |

Plot Keywords:

Drugs | Asia | Mercenary | War

Cast

Lewis Collins	...	Cmdr. Robin Wesley
Lee Van Cleef	...	China
Ernest Borgnine	...	Fletcher
Klaus Kinski	...	Charleton
Manfred Lehmann	...	Klein
Mimsy Farmer	...	Kathy Robson
Thomas Danneberg	...	Arbib
Frank Glaubrecht	...	Stone
Hartmut Neugebauer	...	Brenner
Wolfgang Pampel	...	Baldwin
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Luciano Pigozzi	...	Priest

Also Known As:

Arcobaleno selvaggio (Italy)
Code Name: Wild Geese (International: English title)

Runtime:

101 min | Sweden:96 min (heavily cut)

Country:

Italy | West Germany

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

West Germany:18 (f) | Germany:16 (DVD) (cut version) | Finland:K-18 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 (heavily cut) | USA:R | UK:15 (cut) | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba)

Filming Locations:

Hong Kong, China

Company:

Ascot Film

Movie Connections:

References The Wild Geese (1978)

Watch it just for the chase scene!!!

Code Name Wild Geese is one of those many movies that bases the plot around mercenary action in a jungle; actually, to be fair, given that every cheapo movie seems to have done that in the past few years, at least this was one of the first. (Is ANYONE really interested in mercenary-in-a-jungle movies?) Most of the action is perfunctory, predictable stuff. Lee Van Cleefe is wasted (as usual) in this; Lewis Collins does his hard man routine.

This movie wouldn't really be worth commenting on except for the chase scene. It's absolutely hillarious! Collins' character revs his car up in a tunnel when he realizes he's blocked in, and drives sideways, YES SIDEWAYS, along the wall of the tunnel! How does he do this? Well, aside from the fact that this is physically impossible, of course he doesn't... we're treated to a exquisitely appalling display of movie miniatures, intercut with grim expressions on Collin's face. It's priceless and worth the cost of a rental alone.