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				Salesrank: 199977
		Used Price: $19.99
		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
Mixing action, humor, sentiment, and even a few righteous moral convictions, The Wild Geese is good, rousing fun. Released theatrically in 1978 (oddly, this 2005 DVD release is referred to as the "30th Anniversary Edition"), director Andrew V. McLaglen’s film depicts the adventures of a group of British mercenaries hired by a shady multinational corporation to free the benevolent leader of an African nation held captive by a ruthless dictator. Led by the caustic, no-nonsense Col. Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton), these soldiers of fortune are all stout fellows out to earn a big payday and restore a good man to his rightful place of power (the underlying message of universal racial brotherhood is effective, if somewhat simplistic), and they do their job swiftly and efficiently... at least until they're double-crossed by their venal, perfidious employers, at which point the film becomes a tale of survival and revenge. The cast, which also includes Richard Harris, Roger Moore, and a host of other fine veteran actors, is first-rate, the story-telling efficient, the dialogue entertaining (with occasional bursts of profanity), and the action reasonably exciting and not overly graphic. And even if the pace is somewhat leisurely by new millennium standards (we're nearly an hour into it before the actual mission starts), The Wild Geese is a very enjoyable ride. Bonus features include a profile of producer Euan Lloyd and commentary by Lloyd, Moore, and journalist Jonathan Sothcott. --Sam Graham

The Wild Geese [Region 2] Reviews:
VERY VERY GOOD
2009-12-27 - THIS MOVIE IS EXELLENT ! AND 2 OF MY MUCH OLDER FRIENDS WHO STAYS IN MY TOWN ! BOTH PLAYED IN THE MOVIE AS SOLDIERS WHEN THEY MADE THIS MOVIE IN SOUTH AFRICA !! ON DVD THE PICTURE AND COLOUR IS MUCH BETTER THAN WHEN IT WAS MADE 30 YEARS AGO ! ANDRE ' KOEN

good entertainment
2009-12-27 - Having seen this film before ( several times )I purchased it for my collection. It provides good action scenes and an entertaining story set against WWII. Very good cast.

The Wild Geese
2009-08-13 - The Wild Geese is an exciting movie where the end is not revealed until the last scene. The cast was outstanding from Richard Burton to Roger Moore. Fifty crack mercenaries, a bit passed there prime but willing to go in harms way one more time for the gold and the challenge. Stewart Granger in a cameo role plays a surprising villain. Sinister greed raises its ugly head! But in the end good triumphs over evil at the cost of some good men! It is worth a see and in many ways reflects a modern film entitled "Shooter." Two great action adventure films that will have you talking after all is said and done! A Night in the Tropics

A vintage corker
2009-06-18 - The first thing I did when I got ahold of this 'special edition' DVD was watch the Movietone News footage of the original London premiere. Has-been British movie stars in 1970s fashions meeting the Duchess of Kent in a benefit for the "Stars Organisation for Spastics" or "SOS". Hilarious! But then I watched the film again ... and talk about improving with age! When I first saw this movie in the cinemas as a high school student back in 1978, it just seemed stodgy and unbelievable. Richard Burton looked stiff and out-of-it; Richard Harris was in this syrupy relationship with his tousled-haired son; and all that racial harmony stuff just seemed ridiculous. But thirty years later, Burton suddenly seems spot-on as an alcholic, nearly has-been mercenary; Harris' performance seems like the emotional heart of the picture; and the talk of harmony (between white and black Africans but also between blacks themselves) suddenly seems prescient in light of subsequent history. I guess that Wild Geese is an old movie for old men. As the accompanying documentary features make clear, it was a producer's film, not a director's film. There's no auteurism in evidence, no visual style. Just a solid story played out by a cast of old pros. Even the somewhat awkward action sequences now ring true, like just the sort of small-scale chaos a handful of grizzled mercenaries might be able to drum up in the bush. I didn't buy it then, but I do now.

A still ongoing part of post colonial African history
2009-04-05 - The Wild Geese is a good movie in the style of Dogs of War, Tears of the Sun and many of Freddy Forsyth's novels. It paints a pretty fair picture of many of the growing pains of post colonial black africa wrapped up in the guise of a shoot 'em up war movie. The cast is superb and the story line while a little predictable and formulaic still makes a good pic to watch on a rainy afternoon.

The understory is still going on. Just look to Sierra Leone, Rwanda and a number of other countries in sub-sahara Africa and you'll see what I mean. For a movie as old as it is, it still tells a timely tale.