22/12/2023
Its another legendary Christmas movie for the Friday Movie of the Week! This week is 1978's mercenary adventure "The Wild Geese"!
Starring: Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Kruger, Stewart Granger, Jack Watson, Kenneth Griffith, Winston Ntshona, Ian Yule; directed by Andrew V. McLaglen.
Colonel Allen Faulkner is a renowned British officer turned soldier-for-hire who has been recruited by merchant banker and magnate Sir Edward Matherson for a simple job. Assemble an elite force of mercenaries to rescue Julius Lembani; the deposed president of the African nation of Zembala. Building a force of veteran soldiers and friends, Faulkner and his men jump into Zembala on Christmas Day. Unaware that Matheson will betray them and strand them deep inside hostile territory, Faulkner and his soldiers will have to fight their way to freedom and revenge.