Picks and Pans Review: Soldiers of the Twilight

UPDATED 03/23/1981 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 03/23/1981 at 01:00 AM EST

ABC (10-11 p.m. ET)

What lures mercenary soldiers to fight in Africa and Central America? This sometimes grisly documentary about four hired guns—two Americans, an Englishman and a Frenchman—suggests it's less money than macho. "Where else," asks a former Rhodesian cavalry commander, "could I get a job killing Marxists and having a good ol' time?"

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