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Overview
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Release Date:
27 November 1968 (USA) moreTagline:
The Toughest Hellfighter Of All! [Australia Theatrical]User Comments:
The Original Armageddon! more (36 total)US TV Schedule:
| Mon. Nov. 23 | 6:00 AM | 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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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 asked to comment on the film during production, actress Katharine Ross replied, "It's the biggest piece of crap I've ever done!" Then the reporter asked Vera Miles (who was playing Wayne's wife and Ross's mother in the film) to respond to Ross's comment. She thought for a moment and said, "Well, it's not the biggest piece of crap I'VE ever done!" moreGoofs:
Continuity: When Tish first arrives at her father apartment in Houston, she asks for a scotch rocks... but in numerous shots, there is never any ice in the glass. 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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Exciting adventure (re-made years later as ARMAGEDDON with Bruce Willis and re-set in outer space) with John Wayne as a successful contractor to oil companies. He's successful because his job is a very dangerous one: Drill into oil fields that are on fire, set explosives into the heart oil field fires, and cause them to lose oxygen. This job description has caused his wife to divorce him. John Wayne's top employee is young hot shot Jim Hutton, who John Wayne sees as someday taking over the company. Jim Hutton and John Wayne's daughter, Katharine Ross, are in love and want to get married, but John Wayne wants nothing of it. He doesn't want his daughter to suffer the same stress his own wife suffered, wondering if her husband would live through another dangerous assignment. Unlike ARMAGEDDON in which we never explore Bruce Willis' marriage we actually get to see John Wayne's wife, Vera Miles and listen to her concerns (the divorce was more than just because he had a dangerous job). The climax of the film centers around a government contract that sends the crew into the middle of a war where aircraft is blowing up oil fields as John Wayne and company are trying to put the fires out. Will John Wayne allow Jim Hutton to marry Katharine Ross? Will John Wayne get back together with Vera Miles? Will John Wayne and Jim Hutton blow themselves up in a fire ball or be blown apart my the aerial attacks? If you loved ARMAGEDDON check out the film that started it all.