Product: Hellfighters [VHS] (1968)
Rating: 5.0
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 fire fighter of great fame. He is separated from his wife (Vera Miles) as she quinces every time he goes near a fire and can not take it. His daughter Tish (Katharine Ross) does not have that problem, however her mother thinks it is only a matter of time if she ever marries one of that kind. Perchance she 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 with out extra help?The question will be can Tish Handle 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.Donovan's Reef