Hellfighters

John Wayne stars as a firefighter named Chance Buckman in this 1968 film. 

It's not regarded as one of Wayne's best but, there aren't many films I've come across that are about people fighting oil well fires so, at the very least it's something different.

Chance is the head of an oil-fire fighting team and one day after containing a fire there is an accident that puts him in the hospital. Worrying that Chance may not make it, one of his men from his team Greg Parker (played by Jim Hutton) sets out to find Chance's daughter Tish. Despite getting off to a rough start, within a matter of days, Greg and Tish fall in love and get married. Shortly after, Chance, Greg, Tish, and Chance's ex-wife Madelyn (played by Vera Miles) are all out celebrating the marriage when a call comes in that there is a fire. So, it's back to work but now the dynamic between the two has changed with Chance knowing full well that the dangerous job is what caused Madelyn to leave him. While on their next job Greg's foot gets trapped under a collapsing steel structure and Chance rushes in to save him, and afterwards Chance decides to leave firefighting in favor of a office job. He and Madelyn try to give their relationship another shot but, when a fire in Venezuela gets out of hand, Greg calls up Chance for help and he doesn't hesitate to jump back into action.

Overall it's not great but, especially if your a John Wayne fan, it's pretty entertaining.

I give it a 2.5 out of 5.

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