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Hellfighters is a american film of genre Action directed by Andrew V. McLaglen released in USA on 27 november 1968 with John Wayne

Hellfighters (1968)

Hellfighters
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Released in USA 27 november 1968
Length 2h1
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Action,    Adventure,    Romance
Rating64% 3.2489453.2489453.2489453.2489453.248945

Hellfighters is a 1968 American film starring John Wayne and featuring Katharine Ross, Bruce Cabot, Jim Hutton, Jay C. Flippen and Vera Miles. The film, directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, is about a group of oil well firefighters, based loosely on the life of Red Adair. Adair, "Boots" Hansen, and "Coots" Matthews, served as technical advisers on the film.

Hellfighters was for the most part negatively received.

Synopsis

Chance Buckman is the head of a Houston–based oil-fire fighting outfit. With a team that includes Joe Horn, Greg Parker, and George Harris, Chance travels around the world putting out blazes at well heads from industrial accident, explosion or terrorist attack. Chance enjoys the thrills, but longs for ex-wife Madelyn (Vera Miles) he divorced 20 years earlier, taking their daughter Leticia with her, because Madelyn could not bear to see her husband risk his life. Though they love each other, Madelyn could not deal with her terror that Chance might burn to death in a fire.

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