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Oil

Original title: Cuibul salamandrelor
  • 1977
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
6.1/10
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Oil (1977)
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At an oilfield in the Sahara Desert, a massive derrick blaze is tackled by a team of Romanian oil well firefighters aided by an American specialist but hired saboteurs with ulterior motives ... Read allAt an oilfield in the Sahara Desert, a massive derrick blaze is tackled by a team of Romanian oil well firefighters aided by an American specialist but hired saboteurs with ulterior motives imperil the scene.At an oilfield in the Sahara Desert, a massive derrick blaze is tackled by a team of Romanian oil well firefighters aided by an American specialist but hired saboteurs with ulterior motives imperil the scene.

  • Director
    • Mircea Dragan
  • Writer
    • Ioan Grigorescu
  • Stars
    • Stuart Whitman
    • Woody Strode
    • Tony Kendall
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.1/10
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    • Director
      • Mircea Dragan
    • Writer
      • Ioan Grigorescu
    • Stars
      • Stuart Whitman
      • Woody Strode
      • Tony Kendall
    • 4User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    Stuart Whitman
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    • Tony
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    • Bill Mann
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    • Burt
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    Valentin Platareanu
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    • Diana Astor
    Ray Milland
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    • Gregory
    Mihail Vasile Boghita
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    Ioana Dragan
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      • Mircea Dragan
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      • Ioan Grigorescu
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    Stuart Whitman: my god man! Trim your eyebrows!
    Why does IMDb list this as being a sequel to Explozia? Because there is no real connection, other than the director, Mircea Dragan, and a basic premise about attempts to extinguish a large fire burning out of control.

    Anyway, this film has only two comments, the latter is nothing more than political ramblings, while the former is a moronically numbered list of points about it (any 12 year old can do that) so I will attempt to comment on the exploitation flick itself.

    Anyway again, this is a moderately engrossing thriller about fire in a Saharan oil field burning out of control, and Stuart Whitman, and his double-breasted suit jackets, and bushy sideburns are sent to extinguish the blaze. Good pyrotechnics and photography (if a bit faded and washed out, or was that just the print I watched?) mix quite awkwardly with subplots of politics and corporate greed; perhaps that is why the second comment went the route it did?

    If this was indeed meant to be a sequel to Explozia (a film which I highly recommend) , it never reaches the same heights as that film did, as it over complicates what is (or could have been) a simple, basic thriller, in the memorably unusual setting of Saharan Africa.
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    • Release date
      • February 1977 (Romania)
    • Countries of origin
      • Romania
      • Italy
    • Languages
      • Romanian
      • Italian
    • Also known as
      • Oil--The Billion Dollar Fire
    • Filming locations
      • Bucharest, Romania
    • Production companies
      • Casa de Filme Cinci
      • Spectacular Film Productions
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    • Budget
      • ROL 5,312,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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