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Hellfighters
starring: John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Vera Miles, Jim Hutton, Jay C. Flippen
directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Universal
EAN: 9780783230474
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783230478
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 05, 1999
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 3689
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: November 27, 1968

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Bonus features: production notes talent bios film highlights and web link. A roughneck firefighter must fight to stay alive against the fires that surround him. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 09/02/2003 Starring: John Wayne Katharine Ross Run time: 122 minutes Rating: G

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Fans of Armageddon might see one or two resemblances between that 1998 box office hit and Hellfighters, a 1968 action film by Andrew V. McLaglen, one of John Wayne's favorite directors in his late career. (Their joint ventures included Chisum, Cahill: United States Marshal, and McLintock!) Wayne plays an oil well firefighter in the mold of Red Adair, turning up anywhere in the world where a geyser of fire is shooting up from a once-profitable gusher. His right-hand man (Jim Hutton) has questionable judgment about safety matters and is a scoundrel with the ladies--and neither fact is lost on Wayne when Hutton's character marries his long-lost daughter (Katharine Ross, a mere year after The Graduate). The film is an early entry in the disaster-meets-soap-opera genre that flourished in the '70s with such titles as The Towering Infernoand The Poseidon Adventure. McClaglen gets a lot of crackle out of his action scenes (many of the firefighting sequences are still startling in their intensity) and turns twin love stories (Hutton and Ross, Wayne and Vera Miles) into frothy studies of adult manners, with equal hints of Howard Hawks and Sidney Sheldon. The widescreen image on DVD offers viewers a chance to see what was then a developing vogue for gratuitous breadth and scope in all its goofy, self-congratulatory glory. (Is it necessary to look at a golf course the way one might look at an African veldt? Hellfighters says yes!) The DVD also includes production notes and written bios on the stars, plus optional French and Spanish subtitles and an optional Spanish soundtrack. The cast and sundry thrills make this film highly enjoyable, and easily forgivable for indulging in such inanities as a subplot concerning--hold on--Venezuelan terrorists! The Duke lives! --Tom Keogh

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- John Wayne
I enjoyed seeing John Wayne in something other than a western. I purchased this for my mother, who likes the DUKE.

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- JOHN WAYNE FAN
I HAVE BEEN A JOHN WAYNE FAN FOR MANY YEARS. I GREW UP WATCHING HIS MOVIES WITH MY dAD. THIS IS ANOTHER ONE OF HIS GREAT MOVIES. NOT TO BE MISSED.

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- Best non-western John Wayne movie
My husband and love this movie. It's action packed, romantic in the old fashioned way where everybody ends up happy. There is enough gloom and doom today, I want romance and happy endings.

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- Even with the deck stacked against it HELLFIGHTERS succeeds...barely.
John Wayne films can be divided into three categories: those before STAGECOACH, his critical hits (THE SEARCHERS, RIO BRAVO, etc.) and his more formulaic efforts that usually left critics and audiences cold (JET PILOT, BLOOD ALLEY and the like).

HELLFIGHTERS is one of the more successful of that third category thanks to the interesting subject (fighting oil well fires) and John Wayne himself, but no thanks to the horrible overacting of Jim; the by-the-numbers direction by Andrew V. McLaglen (who James Coburn once called a "hack") and the inept script by Clair Huffaker (who's biggest hit was THE WAR WAGON) that tries it's best to flush the whole thing down the toilet by giving way, way too much screen time to the worrying and crying of the spineless wives who just can't face the fact that their husbands are rugged, firefighting superstuds! Example: "This fire is it for me! It's the answer. I may fall ... Read More

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