Code Name: Wild Geese
Code Name: Wild Geese is a 1984 West German- Italian Euro
War film directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Lewis Collins in the first of their three mercenary war films.
Despite the films title," Code Name: Wild Geese" is not the sequel to" The Wild Geese" film, but a derivative film.
Kim Newman described the film as closer to the director's films such as" The Last Hunter" and" Cannibal Apocalypse".
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.
Andrew V. McLaglen
Andrew Victor McLaglen( July 28, 1920 – August 30, 2014) was a British- born American film and television director, known for Westerns and adventure films, often starring John Wayne or James Stewart.
J. Sasikumar
Nambiathusseril Varkey John( 14 October 1927 – 17 July 2014), better known by his screen name Sasikumar, was an Indian film director who worked in Malayalam cinema.
One of the most prolific directors in world cinema, he has directed more than 141 films in his career which began in the mid-1960s.
He is often referred to as Hitmaker Sasikumar due to the commercial success of his films.
Sasikumar holds three world records: the records for most films( 141), most films having the same actor as hero( Prem Nazir in 84 films) and the most films directed in a year( 15 films in 1977).
He died in 2014 at the age of 86.
Scorticateli vivi
Scorticateli vivi also known as Skin'em Alive and The Wild Geese Attack Again is a 1978 Italian Macaroni combat film about a fictional group of mercenaries in Africa.
The film was co-written, produced and directed by screenwriter Mario Siciliano that was inspired by the international success of" The Wild Geese".
The film features extensive reuse of action footage from Siciliano's 1969 mercenary film" Seven Red Berets".
The film stars South African journalist Bryan Torquil Rostron in his final film appearance.
Despite the title, none of the characters are skinned alive in the film.
Roy Budd
Roy Frederick Budd( 14 March 1947 – 7 August 1993) was a British jazz pianist and composer known for his film scores, including" Get Carter" and" The Wild Geese".
Maravil Thirivu Sookshikkuka
Maravil Thirivu Sookshikkuka is a 1972 Indian Malayalam crime thriller film, directed by J. Sasikumar and produced by R. S. Rajan.
The film stars Prem Nazir, Vijayasree, Adoor Bhasi and Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair in the lead roles.
The film had musical score by G. Devarajan.
Hartley Lobban
Hartley W Lobban (9 May 1926 – 15 October 2004) was a Jamaican-born first-class cricketer who played 17 matches for Worcestershire in the early 1950s.
The Wild Geese
The Wild Geese is a 1978 British- Swiss war film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and starring Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Richard Harris, and Hardy Krüger.
The screenplay concerns a group of mercenaries in Africa.
It was the result of a long- held ambition of its producer Euan Lloyd to make an all- star adventure film similar to" The Guns of Navarone" or" Where Eagles Dare".
The same producer and director were later responsible for" The Sea Wolves".
The screenplay by Reginald Rose was based on an unpublished novel titled" The Thin White Line" by Daniel Carney.
The film was named" The Wild Geese" after the Wild Goose flag and shoulder patch used by Michael" Mad Mike" Hoare's Five Commando, ANC, which in turn was inspired by a 17th- century Irish mercenary army( see Flight of the Wild Geese).
Carney's novel was subsequently published by Corgi Books under the same title as the film.
The novel was based upon rumours and speculation following the 1968 landing of a mysterious aeroplane in Rhodesia, which was said to have been loaded with mercenaries and" an African president" believed to have been a dying Moïse Tshombe.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.

Question: Which film whose director was born first, The Wild Geese or Maravil Thirivu Sookshikkuka?
Answer: The Wild Geese