Add to FavouritesAbout this Broadcast
A corporation hoping to bring about the downfall of an African dictator hires a group of British mercenaries to free a political prisoner dangerous to the regime. However, when the company changes its plans and makes a deal with the tyrant, the soldiers and the man they have saved are left surrounded by hostile military forces with no escape route. Action adventure, starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris and Hardy Kruger
1978
Adventure/War
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Richard Burton
(Actor)
.. Col Allen Faulkner
Richard Harris
(Actor)
.. Rafer Janders
Roger Moore
(Actor)
.. Shawn Fynn
Hardy Kruger
(Actor)
.. Pieter Coetzee
Stewart Granger
(Actor)
.. Sir Edward Matherson
Frank Finlay
(Actor)
.. Priest
Jack Watson
(Actor)
.. Sandy Young
Winston Ntshona
(Actor)
.. President Julius Limbani
Andrew V McLaglen
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Richard Burton
(Actor)
.. Col Allen Faulkner
Richard Harris
(Actor)
.. Rafer Janders
Born:
October 01, 1930
in
Limerick City
Best Known For:
A distinguished film and stage career.
Early-life:
Richard St John Harris was born in Limerick City on October 1, 1930, the youngest of nine children from a middle-class, Roman Catholic family. He was a talented sportsman, representing Munster on several occasions until contracting TB ended his career. Richard went on to study acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He went on to join Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop and soon began getting roles in various West End stage productions.
Career:
Harris made his film debut in the 1958 British comedy Alive and Kicking. Other roles followed in The Guns of Navarone and Mutiny on the Bounty before his first lead role came in 1963's This Sporting Life. Other movies followed, including The Heroes of Telemark, Major Dundee, Camelot, A Man Called Horse, The Cassandra Crossing and The Wild Geese. He appeared in a number of forgettable productions during the 1980s but returned to form in the 1990s with The Field, Patriot Games and Unforgiven. His later films included Gladiator and two Harry Potter films. He died in London on October 25, 2002, at the age of 72, following a battle with Hodgkin's disease.
Quote:
"I was a sinner. I slugged some people. I hurt many people. And it's true, I never looked back to see the casualties."
Trivia:
Had three children with first wife Elizabeth Rees. A life-size sculpture of him as an 18-year-old squash player was unveiled by Russell Crowe in Kilkee, Co Clare, where Harris won a local cup four times in a row between 1948 and 1951.
Roger Moore
(Actor)
.. Shawn Fynn
Born:
October 14, 1927
in
London
Best Known For:
Playing James Bond for a record 12 years.
Early-life:
Roger George Moore was born on October 14, 1927, in Stockwell, London, the only child of a policeman. He originally wanted to be an artist, gaining experience as a tracer at an animated film company. After National Service spent in military intelligence, he worked as an extra in the films Perfect Strangers and Caesar and Cleopatra. The director Brian Desmond Hurst arranged for him to train at Rada, which helped get rid of his cockney accent.
Career:
Moore's first important film role came in the 1949 musical comedy Trottie True, but he supplemented his income by modelling. In 1953 he moved to the US, gaining a contract with MGM. He appeared alongside Elizabeth Taylor in The Last Time I Saw Paris before concentrating on TV work. Ivanhoe made him a star and he followed that with Maverick and The Alaskans. After moving back to the UK, Moore starred in The Saint and The Persuaders before becoming James Bond in 1973's Live and Let Die. He stuck with the role until 1985's A View to a Kill. Other films include Gold, The Wild Geese and The Cannonball Run, as well as plenty of comic turns as parodies of himself. He died on May 23, 2017 at the age of 89.
Quote:
"My acting range? Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised."
Trivia:
Moore became a UNICEF ambassador in 1991.
Hardy Kruger
(Actor)
.. Pieter Coetzee
Stewart Granger
(Actor)
.. Sir Edward Matherson
Frank Finlay
(Actor)
.. Priest
Born:
August 06, 1926
in
Farnworth, Lancashire
Best Known For:
Bouquet of Barbed Wire.
Early-life:
Francis Finlay was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, on August 6, 1926. He left school at the age of 14 and took several odd jobs to make ends meet. During this time, he began appearing with amateur theatre groups and realised his future lay on the stage. After landing his first professional role in Scotland in 1951, he won a scholarship to London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before featuring in rep in Guildford.
Career:
A late starter, Finlay didn't appear in the West End until he was 31. After making a series of acclaimed performances in various plays, he was invited to join Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company. He starred opposite the legendary actor in Othello, and then reprised the role on the big screen in 1965, bagging an Oscar nomination in the process. Other major projects included Dennis Potter's version of Casanova, The Three Musketeers, and controversial TV drama Bouquet of Barbed Wire. He also featured in Common as Muck, Longitude, The Sins, Station Jim, Johnny and the Bomb, The Pianist and Life Begins. He died on January 30, 2016, from heart failure after a long illness. He was 89.
Quote:
"I try to be fussy in the theatre. In films no English actor can command what he wants unless he is Michael Caine."
Trivia:
Finlay won a Bafta for his performance opposite Rex Harrison in the 1973 TV movie The Adventures of Don Quixote. He won another Bafta in the same year for playing Voltaire in the BBC drama Candide.
Jack Watson
(Actor)
.. Sandy Young
Winston Ntshona
(Actor)
.. President Julius Limbani
Andrew V McLaglen
(Director)
