See also: Wild gooses

the Wild gooses ( The Wild Geese ) is a British Film carried out by Andrew V. McLaglen, left in 1978.

Synopsis

Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton), a British Mercenary , is engaged by Sir Edward Matherson (Stewart Granger) with for mission of going in central Africa (in a fictitious country near to the Burundi) to release Julius Limbani, a supposed man capacity to raise his country.

Faulkner then recruits fifty mercenaries, the wild gooses , to conclude its mission. Among these mercenaries: the pilot Shaun Fynn (Roger Moore), the African south Pieter Coetzee (Hardy Krüger), and Rafer Janders (Richard Harris) an old friend of Faulkner which prepares the mission.

On the spot the wild gooses infiltrate in the prison of Zembala and release Limbani. They must then seize a Aéroport to return to London. During this time in England, Sir Edward Matherson negotiates with the government of Zembala and betrays the mercenaries. Thus the plane which was to take them is recalled to the last minute, leaving wild gooses only in the middle of a hostile territory.

The mercenaries must then cross the country continued by the militiamans of Zembala. Much of them will be killed. Faulkner and Fynn succeed in returning to London and are avenged for the treachery of Sir Edward Matherson.

Comment

The ambition of the producer Euan Lloyd was to make a successful film with the manner of the film the Guns of Navarone with a casting made up stars of the time. the Wild gooses was a great business success in all the countries where it was distributed.

Distribution

• Richard Burton: Colonel Allen Faulkner
• Roger Moore: Lieutenant Sean Fynn
• Richard Harris: Captain Rafer Janders
• Hardy Kruger : Lieutenant Pieter Coetzee
• Stewart Granger: Sir Edward Matherson
• Winston Ntshona : Julius Limbani
• John Kani: Sergeant Jesse Blake
• Jack Watson: RSM Sandy Young
• Frank Finlay: France Geoghagen, the Priest
• Kenneth Griffith: Arthur Witty
• Barry Foster: Thomas Balfour
• Ronald Fraser: Jock McTaggart
• Ian Yule : Tosh Donaldson
• Patrick Allen: Rushton
• Percy Herbert: Keith

Around film

the wild gooses belongs to a particular sub-genus of action film: the film of mercenaries. Before him, the last train of the katanga approached a similar topic (military mission in Africa, corruption and handling of the governments colonialists, acts of braveries and strongly tinted spectacular scenes graphic violence). The cinematographic character of the mercenary (very far away from the real mercenary.) is a cursed hero, stateless person, whose motivation first (lure of gain) is often replaced by an awakening which pushes it to act for an ideology that it endorses (like defending a minority). After the wild gooses , the dogs of war of John Irving and the tears of the sun of Antoine Fuqua will re-use the same topics in more or less successful alternatives.

External bond

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