Hellfighters

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Hellfighters is a film released in 1968 starring John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Bruce Cabot, Jay C. Flippen, and Vera Miles. The movie, directed by Andrew McLaglen, is about a group of oil well firefighters, based loosely on the life of Red Adair. Adair, "Boots" Hansen, and "Coots" Matthews, served as technical advisors on the film. Hellfighters was negatively received. Reviewers described it as boring and insignificant, calling the movi... more
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  • Nov 27, 1968

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  • 2 h 1 min

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Andrew McLaglen

Andrew V. McLaglen is an American film director. He is the son of actor Victor McLaglen. He began his career as an assistant director and was the principal director on the first season of the television series Have Gun Will Travel. Since then he specialized in westerns and other adventure movies....

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