The Wild Geese (1978)
ThumbScore
👍 78%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 70%
(RT: 70%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Hardy Krüger as Lt. Pieter Coetze
Stewart Granger as Sir Edward Matherson
Jack Watson as RSM Sandy Young
Is The Wild Geese good?
Most people think so. 78% audience score, estimated from 297 TMDB ratings. Critics agree, scoring it 70%.
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Overview
A British multinational company 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. Wikipedia ↗
