The Wild Geese DVD 1978 Vadlibák / Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen / Starring: Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, Hardy Kruger

UPC 5996051840168

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN THE EU

AUDIO: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0

SUBTITLES: Hungarian

Total Runtime: 129 minutes

English Summary:

The Wild Geese is a 1978 British-Swiss war film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, and Hardy Krüger. The screenplay concerns a group of mercenaries in Africa. It was the result of a long-held ambition of its producer Euan Lloyd to make an all-star adventure film similar to The Guns of Navarone or Where Eagles Dare. The same producer and director were later responsible for The Sea Wolves.

Allen Faulkner, a former British Army colonel turned mercenary, arrives in London to meet merchant banker Sir Edward Matheson. The latter proposes an operation to rescue Julius Limbani, the imprisoned President of a southern African nation who is due for execution by General Ndofa. President Limbani is held in a remote prison in Zembala, guarded by a regiment of General Ndofa's troops known as the "Simbas".

Faulkner accepts the assignment and begins recruiting forty-nine mercenaries, including officers he had worked with previously: Capt. Rafer Janders, a skilled tactician, and Lt. Shawn Fynn, a former Irish Guards officer and pilot. Fynn also brings in Pieter Coetzee, a former soldier in the South African Defence Force who wishes only to return home and buy a farm. The mercenaries fly to Swaziland, where they are whipped into shape. Before the operation begins, Janders exacts a promise from Faulkner to watch over his only son, Emile, should he not survive.

Hungarian Summary:

Az egykori ezredest azzal bízzák meg, hogy szabadítson ki egy korábban megbuktatott börtönben lévő afrikai politikust. Két régi cimborájával ötvenfős zsoldoscsapatot szervez a zembalai küldetéshez. A rendkívül kényes akció sikerül, de a megbízó, egy két kulacsos taktikát folytató bankár közben kiegyezik az új kormánnyal, és sorsukra hagyja a mit sem sejtő katonákat.

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