More genre viewing – late Fall 2018
Classic television horror, geriatric action and an off-the-wall Canadian horror from Kino Lorber and Severin; five recent disks present thrills, chills, strained comedy and some problematic post-colonial […]
Review: The Wild Geese (1978)
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Cast: Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Krüger, Richard Burton, Stewart Granger,
Roger Moore
Richard Harris
Hardy Krüger
Richard Burton
Stewart Granger
Plot: 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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