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Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 1
Rotten:7
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: In one of Wayne's less spectacular later dramas from 1968, he plays real-life character Red Adair, owner of a Texas company which puts out oil well fires. Ross, fresh from earning an Academy Award... [More]
Starring: John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
All the ingredients (cliches) of the typical Wayne hero are evident, from commitment to his profession as firefighter to a wife (Vera Miles) who couldn't accept him to a daughter (Katharine Ross) who marries a hellfighter and affects reconciliation.
The Duke is an oil-fire fighter running around the world putting out blazes.
A dull adventure tale about macho men who fight oil fires.
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1968 was a bad year for the Duke: The Green Berets and this cliched adventure.
Our indestructible Duke again has made actionful, if not stirringly meaningful, child's play of exotic disasters.
Top CriticBlazingly colorful Duke Wayne actioner.
A slow moving, talkative, badly plotted bore.
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