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The Wild Geese

6.8(298)19782h 14m9

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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Status
Released
Budget
$11.6M
Box office
$9.9M
Language
English
Part of The Wild Geese Collection · 2 films
  • diplomat
  • kidnapping
  • africa
  • mercenary
  • private army
  • outlaw

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Behind the camera

Produced in

United Kingdom, Switzerland

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalR11 Nov 1978
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical155 Jul 1978
  • AustraliaAU

    • Theatrical1 Dec 1978
    • PhysicalDVD28 Jun 2011
  • CanadaCA

    • PhysicalRDVD27 Sept 2005
  • ArgentinaAR

    • Theatrical17 Aug 1978
  • BrazilBR

    • Theatrical19 Sept 1978
  • ColombiaCO

    • Theatrical20 Dec 1978
  • DenmarkDK

    • Theatrical4 Sept 1978
  • FinlandFI

    • Theatrical28 Jul 1978
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical124 Oct 1978
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical16West Germany27 Sept 1978
  • GreeceGR

    • Theatrical1526 Sept 1978

Frequently asked questions

The Wild Geese was released on 28 June 1978.

Audience reviews

3
  • D

    Dark Jedi

    3/17/2013

    6/10

    Yesterday we sat down to watch another oldie that I had seen when I was younger quite some years ago. I remember this movie being quite high on my list of movies that I appreciated as a kid so when I saw it coming it on Blu-ray I had to get it. It is still a decent film but I remembered it as better. The story is a fairly old a frequently reused one. Band of mercenary gets a mission by some person or entity of deb…

  • J

    John Chard

    3/15/2019

    8/10

    The man is dead, Mr. Faulkner. Now only the spirit remains. Marvellously macho, a men on a mission movie proudly proclaiming that the old adage is indeed true, there is life in the old dog(s) yet. A notable cast of British and Irish thespians were rounded up and unleashed into a plot that required a band of mercenaries sent to extract an African President from some prison in the darkest part of Africa. The formu…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    6/4/2023

    7/10

    Stewart Granger hires Richard Burton's "Col. Faulkner" to put together a crack team, money no object, to fly to southern Africa and rescue the deposed president "Limbani" (Winston Ntshona). Meantime, his erstwhile colleague, poor old Roger Moore ("Flynn") in on the run from the London mob after he persuaded the nephew of one of their number to overdose on strychnine-laden heroine; and Richard Harris ("Janders") is tr…

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