More than 30 years before action superstar Sylvester Stallone corralled
a bevy of top talent for his smash hit The Expendables, veteran director Andrew
V. McLaglen (Chisum, The Sea Wolves) made his own film starring some of
Britain's finest actors with his feature The Wild Geese. Severin Films has
taken the action classic, remastered it and stacked it with extra features for
their own American release that should please fans of balls-out mercenary
mayhem.
Richard Burton
leads the cast as Colonel Allen Faulkner, the leader of a group of
"mature" mercenaries in the unforgiving surroundings of South Africa
to track down a kidnapped president played by Wintson Ntshona (Dogs of War,
Ghandi). After agreeing with millionaire Sir Edward Matherson (Stewart Granger,
The Prisoner of Zenda), to gather a group of his hand-picked men (Roger Moore,
Richard Harris, and Hardy Kruger), Faulkner quickly moves forward to prepare
his men for the risky mission.