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The Wild Geese is a 1978 war film starring an ensemble cast led by Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Krüger.The film, which was directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, was the result of a long-held ambition of producer Euan Lloyd to make an all-star adventure film in the vein of The Guns of Navarone or Where Eagles Dare.
The Wild Geese is a 1978 novel by Rhodesian author Daniel Carney published by Bantam Books. [1] He originally titled it The Thin White Line, but it went unpublished until its film adaptation The Wild Geese was made. Carney could not get his novel published until a chance meeting with film producer Euan Lloyd. Lloyd loved the story about ...
Uniform and colonel's flag of the Regiment of Hibernia in Spanish service, mid-eighteenth century Portumna castle.Wild Geese heritage museum. The Flight of the Wild Geese was the departure of an Irish Jacobite army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on 3 October 1691, following the end of the Williamite War in Ireland.
Wild Geese, a 1927 silent film based on the novel by Ostenso; The Wild Geese, a Japanese film based on the novel by Mori Ogai; The Temple of Wild Geese, a 1962 Japanese film directed by Yūzō Kawashima; The Wild Geese, a 1978 British mercenary war film based on Carney's novel Wild Geese II, a 1985 sequel to the above
The Wild Geese (Japanese: 雁, Hepburn: Gan) is a 1953 Japanese drama film directed by Shirō Toyoda.The film is based on Mori Ōgai's novel of the same name. [1] [2] Hideko Takamine stars as Otama, a young woman who becomes the mistress of a married man in order to support her aging father.
Mori Ōgai's classical novel, The Wild Geese or The Wild Goose (1911–13, 雁 Gan), was first published in serial form in Japan, and tells the story of unfulfilled love set against a background of social change and Westernization. [1] The story is set in 1880 Tokyo.
Lawless wrote nineteen works of fiction, biography, history, nature studies and poetry, many of which were widely read at the time. She is increasingly considered a major fiction writer of the late nineteenth century, and an early modernist innovator. She is often remembered for her Wild Geese poems (1902). Her books were:
The Wild Geese [ edit ] During the mid-1970s, Hoare was hired as technical adviser for the movie The Wild Geese , [ 28 ] the fictional story of a group of mercenary soldiers hired to rescue a deposed African president who resembled Tshombe while the central African nation the story was set in resembled the Congo. [ 27 ]