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1978
The Wild Geese is a 1978 British war action film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, and starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Krüger as a British mercenary unit in Sub-Saharan Africa. The screenplay by Reginald Rose was based on Daniel Carney's then-unpublished novel The Thin White Line. Carney's novel was subsequently published under the film's title to coincide with its release.
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The phrase 'war film' is usually associated with films dealing with both World Wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War or some other 20th‑century conflict which spurred public imagination in most Western countries. There are very few films that deal with conflicts in Sub‑Saharan Africa, despite that area of the world having had its share of wars – sometimes even more brutal and bloody than the examples mentioned above…More
