Hellfighters

"The Toughest Hellfighter Of All!"

Nov 27 1968 G 2h 1m
Action, Adventure, Drama

The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.

Plot

The telling of Chance Buckman an oil rig fire fighter who becomes hospitalized and has to come to grips with how his job interfered with his marriage, after being laid up in a hospital bed after an accident with a news man running in front of a bulldozer causing it to swirve into Chance, and forcing him to allow veteran oil fire fighter Greg, a cocky but knowledgeable Greg becoming his son in law and he has to learn tolerance for not being able to control his daughter wanting to visit oil fires and learn how to rekindle the spark that went out with his ex of more than 25 years and the fear of losing her daughter as well as her husband to the oil fighting.

Written by

Clair Huffaker

Directed by

Andrew V. McLaglen

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

Languages

English, Español

Awards

N/A

Scores
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6,802
Average Rating
6.5 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA