Hellfighters
by Andrew V. McLaglen
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Actor: Jay C. Flippen, Jim Hutton, John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Vera MilesDirector: Andrew V. McLaglen
Brand: Universal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 122 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-01-05
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Hellfighters
Movie Review: FIRE!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
The worlds greatest John Wayne movie ever produced In all of its Technicolor glory! The fires are great. It is really a great "Period" movie. Classic like Airport, or Towering Inferno, it used the latest technologies of the time to deal with the danger, yet it is way out dated for today's standards. Like Shag carpet, avocado appliances, and dark wool paneling.
Summary of Hellfighters
Bonus features: production notes talent bios film highlights and web link. A roughneck firefighter must fight to stay alive against the fires that surround him. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 09/02/2003 Starring: John Wayne Katharine Ross Run time: 122 minutes Rating: GFans of Armageddon might see one or two resemblances between that 1998 box office hit and Hellfighters, a 1968 action film by Andrew V. McLaglen, one of John Wayne's favorite directors in his late career. (Their joint ventures included Chisum, Cahill: United States Marshal, and McLintock!) Wayne plays an oil well firefighter in the mold of Red Adair, turning up anywhere in the world where a geyser of fire is shooting up from a once-profitable gusher. His right-hand man (Jim Hutton) has questionable judgment about safety matters and is a scoundrel with the ladies--and neither fact is lost on Wayne when Hutton's character marries his long-lost daughter (Katharine Ross, a mere year after The Graduate). The film is an early entry in the disaster-meets-soap-opera genre that flourished in the '70s with such titles as The Towering Infernoand The Poseidon Adventure. McClaglen gets a lot of crackle out of his action scenes (many of the firefighting sequences are still startling in their intensity) and turns twin love stories (Hutton and Ross, Wayne and Vera Miles) into frothy studies of adult manners, with equal hints of Howard Hawks and Sidney Sheldon. The widescreen image on DVD offers viewers a chance to see what was then a developing vogue for gratuitous breadth and scope in all its goofy, self-congratulatory glory. (Is it necessary to look at a golf course the way one might look at an African veldt? Hellfighters says yes!) The DVD also includes production notes and written bios on the stars, plus optional French and Spanish subtitles and an optional Spanish soundtrack. The cast and sundry thrills make this film highly enjoyable, and easily forgivable for indulging in such inanities as a subplot concerning--hold on--Venezuelan terrorists! The Duke lives! --Tom Keogh
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