Wild Geese II

Wild Geese II
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Peter Hunt
Screenplay by	Reginald Rose
Based on	The Square Circle 1982 novel by Daniel Carney
Produced by	Euan Lloyd
Starring	Scott Glenn Barbara Carrera Edward Fox Laurence Olivier Robert Freitag Kenneth Haigh Stratford Johns Derek Thompson Robert Webber
Cinematography	Michael Reed
Edited by	Keith Palmer
Music by	Roy Budd
Production companies	Frontier Films Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment
Distributed by	Thorn EMI
Release date	18 October 1985 (1985-10-18)
Running time	125 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£11 million[1]

Wild Geese II is a 1985 British action-thriller film directed by Peter Hunt, based on the 1982 novel The Square Circle by Daniel Carney, in which a group of mercenaries are hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin. The film is a sequel to the 1978 film The Wild Geese, which was also produced by Euan Lloyd and adapted from a novel by Carney. Richard Burton, who starred in the first film as Colonel Allen Faulkner, was planning to reprise his role, but died days before filming began. Faulkner is replaced by his brother played by Edward Fox as one of the mercenaries. No characters from the original are featured in the sequel.