IMDb plot summary: The story of macho oil well firefighters and their wives.
Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. Starring John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, and Vera Miles.
This is definitely more enjoyable than John Wayne's other 1968 movie, The Green Berets, which was a preachy pro-war propaganda film. This one aims for a genuine human connection in the story as well as focusing on a pretty unique type of dangerous occupation -- I've seen firefighter movies, but never specifically about folks fighting industrial oil fires. It's a little bland in how neatly things get wrapped up but it's got interesting pieces to it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Hellfighters < Star Trek: First Contact
Hellfighters > Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Hellfighters < Ghost
Hellfighters > Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Hellfighters < Give My Regards to Broad Street
Hellfighters > Apocalypto
Hellfighters > Crash
Hellfighters > Joe Versus the Volcano
Hellfighters < The Pajama Game
Hellfighters > Ivan the Terrible, Part One
Hellfighters > The Year Without a Santa Claus
Hellfighters > Where to Invade Next
Final spot: #2047 out of 3109.
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