Les feux de l'enfer

Titre original : Hellfighters

1968
G
2h 1min

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John Wayne, Jim Hutton, and Katharine Ross in Les feux de l'enfer (1968)

Rivalités, peines de cœur et soucis familiaux au sein d'une équipe de pompiers de choc, spécialisée dans les incendies de puits de pétrole.Rivalités, peines de cœur et soucis familiaux au sein d'une équipe de pompiers de choc, spécialisée dans les incendies de puits de pétrole.Rivalités, peines de cœur et soucis familiaux au sein d'une équipe de pompiers de choc, spécialisée dans les incendies de puits de pétrole.

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Anecdotes
The news truck seen at the first fire carries the markings of KPRC Channel 2, which is a real Houston NBC affiliate. The reporter, Chris Chandler was an actual KPRC reporter as well.

Gaffes
The Australian driller takes off his mask a decent distance away from the poison well fire and dies nearly instantly. Yet Greg is right under the well and has a hole in his hose going directly into the closed environment of his mask and is only knocked out. However, this can be explained by the Australian breathing air that had been saturated with the poison gas. The gas was spreading past the safety flags, possible due to wind or other weather conditions. Greg was working with an air mask. When his hose split he still had some air left in his tank that would have been at a higher pressure than the outside air, keeping it out of his breathing air to a degree. He is seen putting his hand over the leak and then passing out in the water. The water would have prevented further poisonous air from getting into his system.

Citations
Chance Buckman: Exactly WHAT did you tell her about Madame Loo?
Greg Parker: Only that she's 80 years old, weighs 300 pounds and is one of your oldest friends.

Crédits fous
There is a print which has been shown on UK television, an original English language print with English titles, which however includes two frames of opening titles in Italian: the list of technical consultants is headed "Consulenti Tecnici" and the next sheet explaining that the events depicted are based on the real live experiences of those people, is written in Italian. Then the credits revert to English.

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7/10

I really liked this movie!

After the first Gulf War, we heard a steady stream of news reports about workers putting out oil fires in Kuwait. I immediately understood what they were describing, because I had seen Hellfighters, and they were using the same techniques.

I really liked this movie. I thought Chance Buckman was the perfect role for John Wayne's character...his character seemed to match the sort of person who would be doing this for a living. Fighting the fires while getting shot at by guerrilla fighters seemed a big much, until I considered what is going on with people working on the infrastructure in Iraq...not much different.

I've heard the complaint that the special effects are not up to today's standards, but they work for me...they do not interrupt my suspension of disbelief, and they are not distracting like some of todays whiz-bang special effects.

I think this is one of John Wayne's best movies.