The plot of this of this adaptation of the Daniel Carney's novel, sprinkled throughout a series of extended Sam Peckinpah-inspired action sequences, deals with a collection of mercenary toughguys Colonel Allen Faulkner (Richard Burton, Lieutenant Shawn Fynn (Roger Moore, Rafer Janders (Richard Harris, Pieter Coetzee (Hardy Kruger who are hired to parachute into the African bush country and abscond with deposed African president Julius Limbani (Winston Ntshona and reinstall him as a reigning monarch of an African country, to satisfy British mercantile interests. The action sequences were successful enough to spawn a sequel ? appropriately titled Wild Geese II.