Bruce Cabot, Jay C. Flippen, Jim Hutton
Directed by: Andrew V. McLaglen, Bruce Cabot, Jay C. Flippen, Jim Hutton, John Wayne, Jon Frankel, Katharine Ross, Vera Miles
Release Date: November 27, 1968
DVD Release Date: January 5, 1999
Stats: 182 reviews
A lumbering exercise in machismo, this films sees a series of oil fires/explosions tackled by John Wayne in overalls and no plot. Frankly, it's bores in the same way common to most disaster movies of the 70s. The Duke's forays into other genres are generally best avoided.
This is a very entertaining film. Some of the acting of Jim Hutton & Katharine Ross may have been less than one would expect. But the film should be seen keeping mind that this was years before the disaster films of the early seventies like The Poseidon Adventure & The ...( read more)
IMO...one of HIS best. A little bit of everything--more like real life.
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