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The Wild geese

A veteran band of mercenaries set off into the heart of Africa to rescue the imprisoned leader of an emerging African nation.

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  • "Ashanti"
  • "Zulu dawn"
  • "Aasgieren vallen aan"

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  • "A veteran band of mercenaries set off into the heart of Africa to rescue the imprisoned leader of an emerging African nation."@en
  • "A veteran band of mercenaries set off into the heart of Africa to rescue the imprisoned leader of an emerging African nation."
  • ""Their home is the battlefield. Their calling card is war. Their loyalty is to each other. They're 'The Wild Geese', fifty crack mercenary paratroopers commanded by fearless veteran Colonel Faulkner. Their mission: to land in a remote and hostile corner of Africa, free the one man that can change a nation's destiny, seize the airport and make their escape. But while they fight and die in the African sun, sinister forces in the corridors of power are working to steal their fate"--Container."
  • ""A team of aging mercenaries [are] hired by a wealthy industrialist for one final mission: recruit and train a squad of desperate commandos, parachute into an unstable African nation, snatch its deposed President from a maximum security army prison, escape via the military-controlled airport, and massacre anyone who gets in their way"--Container."
  • "Action adventure film. Sir Edward Matheson, a British multinational, seeking to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa sends Colonel Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton) and a veteran band of crack paratroopers - the Wild Geese - to rescue the imprisoned leader of an emerging African nation. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, Matheson does a deal with the dictator leaving Faulkner and his men to escape under their own steam and exact revenge."@en
  • "The Wild Geese are fifty crack mercenary partroopers commanded by fearless veteran Colonel Faulkner. Their mission is to rescue one man, who can change a nation's destiny, from a hostile location in Africa."@en
  • ""A team of aging mercenaries [are] hired by a wealthy industrialist for one final mission: recruit and train a squad of desperate commandos, parachute into an unstable African nation, snatch its deposed President from a maximum security army prison, escape via the military-controlled airport, and massacre anyone who gets in their way" -- Container."@en
  • "Wild geese: "A British multinational 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."--IMDB."
  • "Zulu dawn: "In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership. Despite the defeat, the Zulus are first humiliated at Roark's Drift and then crushed at the Battle of Ulundi."--IMDB."

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  • "Features"@en
  • "Fiction films"
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  • "Drama"
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  • "Adventure films"
  • "Action and adventure films"
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  • "Wild geese (Motion picture)"

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