The Wild Geese (1978)

This is a pretty average action film and starts a bit too slowly, but the cast is impressive and there are some surprising moments. I enjoyed the African location and the time period, which was the height of the bush wars in places like Rhodesia. The racial politics are decidedly of their era (they're trying, though), but it somewhat amazingly features a redemption arc for a South African merc who has a discussion with a black leader who changes his racist South African heart towards reconciliation. The conversation is frank in ways that can't exist in modern films, and that it's between Winston Ntshona and Hardy Kruger (ex-Hitler Jugend) is sort of incredible. It also has a screamingly gay merc who is treated with affection by his grizzled colleagues no matter how much innuendo he throws around.

The Blu-ray was part of my Arrow Christmas raid. It's very nicely mastered with natural grain and colour and looks like a projection rather than anything digital. Commentary with Roger Moore and John Glen and a clip about the premiere which keeps mentioning that it was "in aid of the spastics".

It's more of a curiosity than anything, but if something about FALs and red berets in the bush gets you going, this is the film.