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Release Date:
27 November 1968 (USA) moreTagline:
The Toughest Hellfighter Of All! [Australia Theatrical]User Comments:
I really liked this movie! moreUS TV Schedule:
| Thur. July 23 | 5:15 PM | AMC |
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| John Wayne | ... | Chance Buckman | |
| Vera Miles | ... | Madelyn Buckman | |
| Katharine Ross | ... | Tish Buckman | |
| Jim Hutton | ... | Greg Parker | |
| Jay C. Flippen | ... | Jack Lomax | |
| Bruce Cabot | ... | Joe Horn | |
| Edward Faulkner | ... | George Harris | |
| Barbara Stuart | ... | Irene Foster | |
| Edmund Hashim | ... | Col. Valdez | |
| Valentin de Vargas | ... | Amal Bokru | |
| Frances Fong | ... | Madame Loo | |
| Alberto Morin | ... | General López | |
| Alan Caillou | ... | Harry York | |
| Laraine Stephens | ... | Helen Meadows | |
| John Alderson | ... | Jim Hatch |
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Add content advisory for parentsRuntime:
121 min | Finland:112 min (cut)Country:
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Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.20 : 1 moreCertification:
Finland:K-12 (heavily cut) (1969) (35 mm) | Finland:K-12 (uncut) (1968) (70 mm) | Singapore:PG | West Germany:16 (f) | Germany:12 (re-rating) (2008) | Norway:15 | Sweden:15 | USA:GFun Stuff
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When Tish Buckman and Greg Parker look at the house they plan to move into after they wed, it's the same house used as the Douglas home in "My Three Sons" (1960). It was later used as one of the houses on "Wysteria Lane" in "Desperate Housewives" (2004). moreGoofs:
Errors in geography: In the scene that is supposedly at Hobby Airport in Houston, mountains are seen in the background. There are no mountains (especially snow covered ones) around Houston. moreQuotes:
Chance Buckman: [referring to the fact that Greg brings a girl to a different fire] What did you use for openers this time, the old headache gag? Why, you poor man, perhaps if I rubbed your neck?Greg Parker: True - every word, true. But it works.
Chance Buckman: Can't say I blame you. A fellow as ugly as you are probably couldn't get to first base without a fire.
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After the first Gulf War, we heard a steady stream of news reports about workers putting out oil fires in Kuwait. I immediately understood what they were describing, because I had seen Hellfighters, and they were using the same techniques.
I really liked this movie. I thought Chance Buckman was the perfect role for John Wayne's character...his character seemed to match the sort of person who would be doing this for a living. Fighting the fires while getting shot at by guerrilla fighters seemed a big much, until I considered what is going on with people working on the infrastructure in Iraq...not much different.
I've heard the complaint that the special effects are not up to today's standards, but they work for me...they do not interrupt my suspension of disbelief, and they are not distracting like some of todays whiz-bang special effects.
I think this is one of John Wayne's best movies.