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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.
Code Name: Wild Geese
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Poklic: komandos, Geheimcode Wildgänse, Arcobaleno selvaggio, Nom de code : Oies sauvages, Comando Patos Salvajes, 野鹅敢死队续集, Krycí jméno: Divoké husy
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01 Sep 1986
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05 Oct 1984
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For an Italian copycat film, aping the success of The Wild Geese 1978, trying to pass itself off as a sequel, Codename: Wild Geese has a solid cast consisting of Lewis Collins, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, and Klaus Kinski (voice dubbed by another actor)
DEA agent Fletcher (Borgnine) hires a mercenary group led by Commander Wesley (Lewis Collins..The Commander, 1988) to go to central Asia to destroy an opium smuggling operation.
Lee Van Cleef is along as the helicopter pilot, doing the mission suicide squad style to get a prison pardon.
Klaus Kinski is their point man.
At times Operation: Wild Geese seems to be two separate movies going on at once Godfrey Ho style with one film featuring… -
You’d guess correctly that this compares favourably to, like, the Bruno Mattei version of this kind of movie, but you might be surprised how well it holds its own against the real thing. As a director, Antonio Margheriti may not be a great stylist, but he throws in something like the transition from a golfer’s swing to a helicopter that make you think twice about that statement. The wiiiiiiiiidescreen cinematography evokes the humid atmosphere and lushness of the jungle pretty nicely, and there’s even a scene near the end shot like a Michael Mann movie for some reason. And more importantly, this moves along nicely, with a steady stream of gunfire and squibs to keep you consistently entertained. There’s more…
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After The Commander the other day I thought I would check out the other Lewis Collins jungle exploitationers from the 80s. The plot isn't too dissimilar to The Commander with Collins team being sent in to blow the shit out of another drug factory in the jungle, having recruited smuggler and helicopter pilot Lee Van Cleef to help. Double crosses abound but what were you expecting when your employer has Klaus Kinski on the payroll? Ernest Borgnine is in the mix too as a DEA boss type guy.
The action is all well staged and there is rarely a dull moment, with the flame thrower blasting from the helicopter being both a highlight and a health and safety nightmare!!😬
Reasonably good of its type.By the by...where the hell did they get that silencer sound effect from?
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Code Name: Wild Geese is the forth of six films that Lee Van Cleef appeared in for director Antonio Marghertti. As the name implies, its an ensemble mercenary adventure in the same vein as The Wild Geese – though has nothing to do with that series. The lead is Lewis Collins (TV’s The Professionals) a one time James Bond hopeful who would probably have adopted a George Lazenby approach to that part, as here all Collins does is scowl at people until they recognize his heart of gold.
During training exercises, our Mercs’ pilot is injured – suggesting that Collins’ captain is asking for friendly fire. Before the hatred Collins’ men have for him is addressed, the DEA taps them…
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This Antonio Margheriti knockoff of The Wild Geese (with some Dark of the Sun thrown in) plays pretty well, with all the usual tropes. Here the action is focused on a mission to destroy opium depots in Vietnam (or maybe Cambodia, the dubbing is hazy), but it’s full of the typical over-the-too violence, savagery, and heroic sacrifice expected of the “Mercs on a Mission” genre.
Lewis Collins plays the cold blooded leader and Ernest Borgnine lends some star power, but the fun is in the supporting cast, which includes a ton of Italian exploitation stalwarts like Lee Van Cleef in the Han Solo role, Mimsy Farmer as a girl they rescue along the way, and a sinister Klaus Kinski sporting a plummy British accent. Manfred Lehman is also a standout as the cynical Klein.
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I Can’t Believe This Macho Bullshit – The 80s Action Films Month
No film starring Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine and Klaus Kinski should ever have been this boring.
That said, I can't fully hate a film where Kinski is so openly and aggressively refusing to give any sort of relevant acting performance. There's almost an art to the way he keeps trying to move out of shot and even the dubbing can't mask his utter contempt for the dialogue he's having to deliver. It's anti-acting of the most brilliant kind.
Otherwise, crap.
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Antonio Margheriti's "Geheimcode: Wildgänse", der von dem schweizer Schmuddelfilm-Produzenten Erwin C. Dietrich produziert wurde, wartet schon mit einem sehr interessanten Cast auf. Da dies eine italenisch-deutsche Koproduktion ist, tauchen neben US-Größen wie Lewis Collins, Lee Van Cleef, Mimsy Farmer und Ernest Borgine auch deutsche Darsteller wie Thomas Danneberg, Manfred Lehmann, Klaus Kinski, Frank Glaubrecht, Hartmut Neugebauer und Wolfgang Pampel auf. Wobei auffällig viele Synchronsprecher darunter sind. Allein Lehmann's Stimme (u.a. die Synchronstimme für Bruce Willis) und Danneberg (u.a. Stimme für Arnold Schwarzenegger und Sylvester Stallone) sorgen für eine wohlige Vertrautheit auf der deutschen Tonspur. Außer natürlich Kinski. Der hatte wohl mal wieder keine Lust sich in der deutschen Fassung zu synchronisieren. Seine Auftritte erfolgen in diesem Film auch eher sporadisch…
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Paramilitaries are hired by the DEA to destroy opium manufacturing labs deep inside the Golden Triangle. This thing just screams 1984.
It's a West German/Italian co-production featuring one thing I've never seen: Klaus Kinski on the golf course, gripping a pitching wedge obviously for the first time. Kinski is just one of several big names, including Ernest Borgnine, Lee Van Cleef and the big "star" of the show Lewis Collins--who does a spot-on copy of Roger Moore as 007 (if 007's teenage son had OD'd on heroin, causing Bond to go rogue in SE Asia on an Opium revenge tour.) This 007 loves summer-saulting. He summer-saults throughout the film, even if there's no reason to summer-sault. Dude practically summer-saults into…
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Klingt nach einem billigen Abklatsch von "Die Wildgänse kommen", was es irgendwie auch ist, nur knallt es trotzdem gewaltig.
Lewis Collins muss die Söldnertruppe zusammentrommeln, denn es gibt eine Mission. Im Goldenen Dreieck Indochinas soll das größte Opiumlager zerstört werden. Dadurch sollen die Märkte in Europa und den USA erschüttert werden und dem Kampf gegen die Drogen einen erforderlichen Vorteil bringen. Natürlich ist das alles ein Himmelfahrtskommando und nicht alle werden zurückkommen.
Erster Teil der Söldner-Trilogie von Erwin C. Dietrich mit Antonio Margheriti auf dem Regiestuhl. Vom Margheriti hatte ich bisher schon den ein oder anderen ordentlichen Actionkracher gewesen, wobei sich "Geheimcode: Wildgänse" wunderbar einreiht.
Mit Collins, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine und Klaus Kinski hat man durchaus einige große…
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The first of three war actioners Antonio Margheriti made for producer Erwin Dietrich, CODE NAME: WILDGEESE bears little resemblance to THE WILD GEESE beyond its men on a mission theme. Team commander Lewis Collins leads his soldiers (including Lee Van Cleef, Manfred Lehmann, and Bruce Baron) on a mission to destroy opium in the Golden Triangle. That goal is accomplished, but their helicopter is lost, forcing them to traverse the jungle on foot. They encounter heroin-addicted reporter Mimsy Farmer and missionary Alan Collins/Luciano Pigozzi, and quickly determine that additional targets will have to be destroyed.
By the numbers but in the enjoyable way a well-mounted formula film can be, CODE NAME: WILDGEESE delivers a multitude of action, some of it…
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Stuff blows up real good in this old-fashioned war movie (of course, one of the soldiers is named Kowalski) starring Lewis Collins (THE FINAL OPTION) as a 007 type, complete with M and Moneypenny associates. The DEA, represented by Ernest Borgnine (FROM HERE TO ETERNITY) as the head of the Hong Kong chapter, and a fancy dresser played by Klaus Kinski (CREATURE) hire Collins and his mercenaries to sneak into Thailand and destroy a Chinese drug lord’s opium crop. Along for the ride are ex-con chopper pilot Lee Van Cleef (FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE), priest Luciano Pigozzi (YOR, THE HUNTER FROM THE FUTURE), and journalist Mimsy Farmer (HOT RODS TO HELL), whom the target took prisoner.
It’s a bare…
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Italian-sploitation quasi-sequel to The Wild Geese? Why not. Been awhile since I've watched a moderately decently dubbed Italian genre film. The 80s is a bit of a blind spot for me in terms of this sorta stuff. I started my letterboxd reviewing spaghetti westerns and peplums and swashbucklers, but this ain't entirely far from that first one. Lee Van Cleef and Klaus Kinski (a disturbingly jovial Kinski) are among the cast. Van Cleef feels oddly at ease, although to be fair he is playing a cowboy, and a man who tends to be called Colonel no less (sneaky Dollars Trilogy reference there), and he's a helicopter pilot with a muddy history. He's hired by one Wesley (Lewis Collins, doing this…