Don't let the great cast fool you into watching this. It's no one's finest hour.
Michael Caine plays a UN doctor in Africa. Wife Beverly Johnson, also a doctor, gets kidnapped by a slave dealer (Peter Ustinov, with beard, robes and Arab accent).
Caine needs a little help to get her back, so the natural person to turn to is Rex Harrison.
Rex Harrison?
Yeah, he turns up here as a badass mercenary helicopter pilot.
No, not really. He's just the middleman to help Caine find a badass mercenary helicopter pilot-- the baddest in Africa Harrison says.
Enter William Holden, looking like the morning after. Exit Harrison, exposition duties performed.
Five minutes later: Exit Holden and the chopper.
Badass mercenary…