Red Skies of Montana is a 1952 adventure drama in which smoke jumper Cliff Mason, Richard Widmark, attempts a save his crew while being over-run by a forest fire, not only to save his men, but to redeem himself after his last fire when he was the only survivor.
The film was very loosely based on the August 1949 Mann Gulch fire.
Cliff Mason, a veteran foreman of the United States Forest Service's elite smoke jumper unit, is called out with his men...
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Red Skies of Montana is a 1952 adventure drama in which smoke jumper Cliff Mason, Richard Widmark, attempts a save his crew while being over-run by a forest fire, not only to save his men, but to redeem himself after his last fire when he was the only survivor.
The film was very loosely based on the August 1949 Mann Gulch fire.
Cliff Mason, a veteran foreman of the United States Forest Service's elite smoke jumper unit, is called out with his men on an emergency, despite the fact that they have not rested in three days. Accompanied by R. A. "Pop" Miller and four other men, Cliff leaves the smoke jumper base at Missoula, Montana for a fire deep in the woods of Bugle Peak in the Selway National Forest. Hours later, at headquarters, superintendent Richard "Dick" Dryer becomes worried because Cliff has not yet radioed in. The next day, Dick heads a search and rescue operation and is stunned to find only an hysterical Cliff wandering through the devastated region. Cliff is rushed to the...
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