Posts from WaynamoJim in thread „The Wild Geese (1978)“

    Loved this movie. Bought it on DVD about 10 yrs ago and was estatic to see it finally released. It's now available on Blu-ray. And did you all know there was a sequel, Wild Geese 2, which came out in 1985. Richard Burton was supposed to star in it and reprise his role of Allan Faulkner, but he died 1 week before filming began in late 1984. They ended up casting Edward Fox as Alex Faulkner, a brother, and in the movie it is mentioned that Burtons character has died. I remember seeing the film, it also starred Scott Glenn, Barbara Carrera, and Sir Laurence Olivier as Rudolph Hess and the plot had to do with a small force of mercenaries breaking Hess out of Spandau Prison so certain people could mine his brain for some Nazi secrets of some kind. It was more a cloak and dagger type of movie, rather than the big shoot em up from the first movie. I thought it was ok, but was very disappointed with the lower key action.