Game For Vultures (1979)

Set during the Rhodesian Bush Wars in the late 1970s, the film focuses on two men: a white Rhodesian arms dealer (Richard Harris) and a black freedom fighter (Richard Roundtree) or terrorist depending on your point of view. The white arms dealer is trying to keep the Rhodesian status quo and the black freedom fighter to take back his country (which would eventually be renamed Zimbabwe). Based on the novel by Michael Hartmann and directed by James Fargo (EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE). The film is a muddled affair and often hard to keep track of. One certainly can't cheer on the arms dealer who represents the racially oppressive Rhodesia but the freedom fighter represents a ruthless killing force that in the name of freedom kills and tortures innocent people. I suppose the point of the film is that in war nobody wins and there are no victors but that has been done before and in better films. With one exception, the acting is indifferent and curiously Roundtree's American accent is never explained. The one exception is Ray Milland who gives a solid performance as an international financier. With Joan Collins, Denholm Elliott, Sven Bertil Taube and Ken Gampu.