Hellfighters

Hellfighters (1968)

  • 14% of critics liked it
    (7 reviews)

  • 75% of users liked it
    (6,882 ratings)

Chance Buckman (John Wayne) heads a team of international trouble shooters who travel around the world to put out oil fires. The dangerous profession has taken a toll on the marriage between Chance and Madelyn (Vera Miles), who leaves when she can no longer endure the stress of saying goodbye and… More

In Theaters
Nov 27, 1968 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • A.H. Weiler, New York Times

    Our indestructible Duke again has made actionful, if not stirringly meaningful, child's play of exotic disasters.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    A slow moving, talkative, badly plotted bore.

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    All the ingredients (cliches) of the John Wayne hero are here, from commitment to his job as firefighter to a wife who couldn't accept him to a daughter who affects reconciliation.

  • , TV Guide's Movie Guide

    The Duke is an oil-fire fighter running around the world putting out blazes.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    A dull adventure tale about macho men who fight oil fires.

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  • Dean M


    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 <i>The Poseidon… More

  • xGary X


    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.

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