The Wild Geese (1978)
June 28, 1978Release Date
The Wild Geese (1978)
June 28, 1978Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Richard Burton
Colonel Allen Faulkner
Roger Moore
Lt. Shawn Fynn
Richard Harris
Capt. Rafer Janders
Hardy Krüger
Lt. Pieter Coetzee
Stewart Granger
Sir Edward Matherson
Winston Ntshona
President Julius Limbani
John Kani
Sgt. Jesse Link
Jack Watson
R.S.M. Sandy Young
Frank Finlay
Father Geoghagen
Ronald Fraser
Sgt. Jock McTaggart
Kenneth Griffith
Arthur Witty
Barry Foster
Thomas Balfour
Andrew V. McLaglen
Director
Reginald Rose
Writer
Percy Herbert
Keith
Ian Yule
Tosh Donaldson
Daniel Carney
Writer
Erwin C. Dietrich
Producer
Glyn Baker
Esposito
Euan Lloyd
Producer
Paul Spurrier
Emile Janders
Rosalind Lloyd
Heather
Roy Budd
Composer
Jack Hildyard
Cinematographer
David Ladd
Sonny Martinelli
Jeff Corey
Mr Martin
John Glen
Editor
Rose Tobias Shaw
CastingDirector
Brook Williams
Samuels
Valerie Leon
1st Girl Dealer
Syd Cain
ProductionDesigner
Leslie Schofield
Hitman
Jane Hylton
Mrs Marjorie Young
Sydney Chama
Clark
Ken Gampu
Alexander
Patrick Holt
Skyjacker
Terence Longdon
Anonymous Man
John Dennison
Matherson's Butler
Thomas Baptiste
Col. Mboya
Jules Walters
Mboya's Aide
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 28, 1978
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 14m
Content RatingR
Budget$11,600,000
Box Office$9,900,000
Filming LocationsSouth Africa
Genres
Wiki.
The Wild Geese is a 1978 war film starring an ensemble cast led by Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Krüger. The film, which was directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, was the result of a long-held ambition of producer Euan Lloyd to make an all-star adventure film in the vein of The Guns of Navarone or Where Eagles Dare. The plot concerns a group of European mercenaries fighting in Africa. The screenplay by Reginald Rose was based on Daniel Carney's unpublished novel The Thin White Line.
The film is named after the Wild Goose flag and shoulder patch used by Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare's Five Commando, ANC, which in turn was inspired by a 17th-century Irish mercenary army Wild Geese. Carney's novel was subsequently published by Corgi Books under the film's title.
The novel was based upon rumours 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 Moïse Tshombe. McLaglen and Lloyd would go on to produce The Sea Wolves with several returning cast members.