The Wild Geese
| Year: | 1978 |
| Production Co: | Richmond Productions |
| Director: | Andrew V McLaglen |
| Writer: | Reginald Rose |
| Cast: | Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Stewart Granger |
The era of rollicking World War 2 movies was drawing to a close when this film came out, many of the cast's best days behind them.
So what a surprise I had when I read about this film after seeing it as a kid and not remembering a thing about it to discover it wasn't about World War 2 at all but a team of British mercenaries flying into Africa for a rescue mission.
Everything about it from the cast to the poster seems cut from the same cloth as Where Eagles Dare, The Dirty Dozen and films like them.
All I remember is that it was worth a look.