The story of macho oil well firefighters and their wives.
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Title: Hellfighters (1968)
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| John Wayne | ... | Chance Buckman | |
| Katharine Ross | ... | Tish Buckman | |
| Jim Hutton | ... | Greg Parker | |
| Vera Miles | ... | Madelyn Buckman | |
| Jay C. Flippen | ... | Jack Lomax | |
| Bruce Cabot | ... | Joe Horn | |
| Edward Faulkner | ... | George Harris | |
| Barbara Stuart | ... | Irene Foster | |
| Edmund Hashim | ... | Colonel Valdez | |
| Valentin de Vargas | ... | Amal Bokru (as Valentin De Vargas) | |
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Frances Fong | ... | Madame Loo |
| Alberto Morin | ... | General Lopez | |
| Alan Caillou | ... | Harry York | |
| Laraine Stephens | ... | Helen Meadows | |
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John Alderson | ... | Jim Hatch |
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The telling of Chance Buckman an oil rig fire fighter who becomes hospitalized and has to come to grips with how his job interfered with his marriage, after being laid up in a hospital bed after an accident with a news man running in front of a bulldozer causing it to swirve into Chance, and forcing him to allow veteran oil fire fighter Greg, a cocky but knowledgeable Greg becoming his son in law and he has to learn tolerance for not being able to control his daughter wanting to visit oil fires and learn how to rekindle the spark that went out with his ex of more than 25 years and the fear of losing her daughter as well as her husband to the oil fighting. Written by Jared Johnson
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The Toughest Hellfighter Of All! [Australia Theatrical] See more »Parents Guide:
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Colonel Valdez: [completely nonplussed] That is very nice.
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John Wayne was still advertising cigarettes in this film, four years after losing a lung. See more »Goofs
Chance remarks about a "poison well" spewing "hydrogen sulfate." It is actually hydrogen sulfide which is most often found in oil well situations. Hydrogen sulfate describes the compound which is sulfuric acid and is generally not gaseous. Hydrogen sulfide is a gas and it is poisonous. See more »Quotes
Colonel Valdez: My father is finally going to marry my mother! Isn't that great?Colonel Valdez: [completely nonplussed] That is very nice.
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There is a print which has been shown on UK television, an original English language print with English titles, which however includes two frames of opening titles in Italian: the list of technical consultants is headed "Consulenti Tecnici" and the next sheet explaining that the events depicted are based on the real live experiences of those people, is written in Italian. Then the credits revert to English. See more »Connections
Referenced in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: Orson Bean/Julie Budd/David Horowitz/Red Adair (1977) See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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27 November 1968 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$6,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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This is an excellent movie on the fighting of High pressure well fires and the way's they are fought. The poison well fire is the most amazing of the fires shows what can be trapped under the ground when drilling for oil.