Commander Robin Wesley, leader of a group of mercenaries, go to the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia to overthrow the dictator, who is a major manufacturer and dealer of the world's opium.Commander Robin Wesley, leader of a group of mercenaries, go to the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia to overthrow the dictator, who is a major manufacturer and dealer of the world's opium.Commander Robin Wesley, leader of a group of mercenaries, go to the Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia to overthrow the dictator, who is a major manufacturer and dealer of the world's opium.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
- Guide Kim
- (uncredited)
- Kowalski
- (uncredited)
- Schleicher
- (German version)
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Priest
- (German version)
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- China
- (German version)
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Kowalski
- (German version)
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- General Lao Khan
- (uncredited)
- Freedom Fighter
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaStarring in this film cost actor Lewis Collins the chance to have a starring role in Wild Geese II (1984). That films producer Euan Lloyd was contemplating casting Lewis Collins in his to be theatrically released film but when he the title of this cheap Italian made film he was furious and didn't want audiences to think the two films were in any way connected.
- Quotes
Wesley: [on his son's overdose] You wouldn't sell drugs to children?
Walter Brenner: [last lines]
Walter Brenner: Wesley your a soldier... not a killer you wouldn't do this
[Wesley coldly fires, pausing between shots to per long Walter's suffering]
- Alternate versionsThe German Blu-ray released in 2014 by Ascot Elite is the full uncut 101 minute version with a 16 certificate.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Söldner-Stories (2014)
"Codename: Wildgeese" is a routine commando action film boasting an interesting (though poorly used) cast of international talent. Pic was shot in the Far East in Spring 1984 with working titles such as "Wild Geese Five and "Wild Rainbow", followed shortly by an uppercase British production "Wild Geese II", which ironically did not receive as wide a domestic release (via major label Universal last year) as this New World product.
Lewis Collins (who toplined "Who Dares Wins" for the "Wild Geese" and "Wild Geese II" producer Euan Lloyd) stars as Capt. Wesley, a mercenary who brings his international team to carry out a daring raid against drug depots in Thailand. Very predictably, the businessmen who are working with his boss, drug enforcement official Fletcher (Ernest Borgnine), turn out to be the bad guys.
Trekking through the jungle and endless machine gun battles are just the excuse for prolific Italian director Antonio Margheriti to display his usual topnotch explosions, bot full scale amd miniatures. For gung ho action and interesting storylines, he did a far better job recently with "The Last Hunter" (1980) and "Tornado" (1983).
Inadequate post-synching of dialog hurts the picture, with Klaus Kinski not even showing up to loop his own lines (he is given an inappropriate British voicing). Collins fits the part as a cool commando, but has grumpy acting looks as if he's just received a call from UA telling the James Bond role went to Timothy Dalton, so he's stuck in this Continental B-pic. Mimsy Farmer is properly shrill as a freed prisoner who's been forcibly turned into a drug addict, while Lee Van Cleef and Ernest Borgnine lend their formidable personalities to nothing roles. Margheriti's favorite actor, Alan Collins (real name: Luciano Pigozzi) shows up uncredited as a Swiss priest who is literally crucified by the baddies.
Margheriti has since completed a followup film "Commando Leopard", starring Lewis Collins and Kinski.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $600,000
- Gross worldwide
- $600,000