Hellfighters
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Andrew V. Mclaglen
John Wayne
Katharine Ross
Jim Hutton
Vera Miles
Jay C. Flippen
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Synopsis
When Chance Buckman is badly injured while fighting an oil well fire, his young associate, Greg Parker, takes it upon himself to send for Chance's daughter, Tish. At the hospital where her father is under heavy sedation, Tish learns that her parents separated when she was a child because her mother, Madelyn, found it impossible to adjust to Chance's hazardous occupation. Fascinated by stories of her father's business, Tish accompanies Greg when he is called away to fight a blazing oil well in Louisiana. Upon their return Chance bellows at Greg for summoning Tish but quiets down when Greg tells him that he married Tish that morning. With the arrival of Madelyn, Chance tries to protect Greg by not sending him on dangerous missions, but his son-in-law's arguments are so strong that Chance gives him the business as a wedding present, takes a desk job in Houston, and remarries his ex-wife. Although Tish is apprehensive about Greg's work, she finds it easier to bear if she is with him on his assignments; as a result, she goes with Greg when he is called to Venezuela to extinguish a string of five oil well fires started by guerrillas. Once Greg realizes how great the danger is, he insists that Tish leave the area and fly to Caracas. She instead takes a jet to Houston and asks her mother to permit the much-needed Chance to join in the fight. Aware that Chance detests his desk job, Madelyn not only allows him to go, but she returns to Caracas with Tish. Chance and Greg snuff out the fires while their wives watch from the sidelines. Although still terrified of firefighting, Madelyn, like Tish, finds that she can stand the pressure if she is with her husband.
Director
Andrew V. Mclaglen
Cast
John Wayne
Katharine Ross
Jim Hutton
Vera Miles
Jay C. Flippen
Bruce Cabot
Edward Faulkner
Barbara Stuart
Edmund Hashim
Valentin De Vargas
Frances Fong
Alberto Morin
Alan Caillou
Laraine Stephens
John Alderson
Lal Chand Mehra
Rudy Diaz
Bebe Louie
Chris Chandler
William Hardy
Howard Finch
Cactus Pryor
Big John Hamilton
Elizabeth Germaine
Crew
"red" Adair
Frank Arrigo
Robert Arthur
Folmar Blangsted
Lyle Cain
William H. Clothier
Robert Forrest
Larry Germain
Joseph Gershenson
Alexander Golitzen
"boots" Hansen
Edith Head
Clair Huffaker
Fred Knoth
Robert E. Larson
"coots" Matthews
John Mccarthy Jr.
Whitey Mcmahon
Terry Morse Jr.
Hal Needham
Ronald Pierce
James S. Redd
Leonard Rosenman
Herman Townsley
Universal Titlese
Waldon O. Watson
Bud Westmore
Albert Whitlock
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The character of Chance Buckman is based on real-life oil well firefighter Red Adair.
