Hellfighters

Starring: John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, et al.

Product Description

Screen legend John Wayne pays tribute to oil field legend "Red" Adair, as Wayne plays Chance Buckman, a colorful Texan who tames out-of-control infernos in exotic locations around the world.

• Format: DVD
• UPC: 683904549648
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Publisher: Ushe
• Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
• Starring: John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles, Jay C. Flippen, Bruce Cabot, Ed Faulkner, Barbara Stuart, Edmund Hashim, Valentin De Vargas
• Runtime: 2 hours, 1 minute
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: anamorphic
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.

Customer Reviews

John Wayne is hot tonight.

This film has all the things you look for in a John Wayne movie and then some. Chance Buckman (John Wayne) is an oil well firefighter fashioned after the famous Red Adair, an actual earlier oil firefighter of great fame. He is separated from his wife (Vera Miles) as she winces every time he goes near a fire and cannot take it. His daughter Tish (Katharine Ross) does not have that problem; however, her mother thinks it is only a matter of time before she marries one of that kind. Perchance, Tish does go to an oil fire and is impressed with one of the men working for Chance. And the inevitable happens. The big one comes as an oil field fire in South America happens. Can Chance handle it without extra help? The question will be, can Tish manage the stress? What is Tish’s mother going to do about this? I do not want to go too much into detail, but a memorable John Wayne moment is when he is in his “red” outfit designed to be seen on the job, a television announcer pushes his way in and asks if wearing a RED suit is just fancy showmanship? And causes a negative mishap.