Fire! (1977 film)

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Fire!
Genre	Action; Drama; Disaster;
Written by	Norman Katkov; Arthur Weiss
Directed by	Earl Bellamy
Starring	Ernest Borgnine; Vera Miles; Patty Duke Astin; Alex Cord; Donna Mills
Music by	Richard LaSalle
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	Irwin Allen
Producer	Irwin Allen
Production locations	Silverton, Oregon; Yamhill, Oregon
Cinematography	Dennis Dalzell
Editor	Bill Brame
Running time	100 minutes
Production companies	Irwin Allen Productions; Warner Bros. Television
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	May 8, 1977;

Fire! is a 1977 American made-for-television action-drama disaster film produced by Irwin Allen starring Ernest Borgnine, Vera Miles, Patty Duke Astin, Alex Cord, Donna Mills, Lloyd Nolan, Neville Brand, Ty Hardin and Erik Estrada. It was directed by Earl Bellamy, who directed another made-for-TV disaster film one year before titled Flood!.^[1]

Plot

Convict Larry Durant escapes from an Oregon road gang, and starts a fire in a forest, which goes out of control and threatens to destroy a small mountain community. Involved are a lumber mill owner, Sam Brisbane; Martha Wagner, the widowed operator of a forest lodge; teacher, Harriet Malone, who is on a class outing; a country doctor, Doc Bennett, and a young couple, Doctors Alex and Peggy Wilson, whose shaky marriage is healed when battling the blaze brings out their better natures.

Cast

Ernest Borgnine as Sam Brisbane
Vera Miles as Martha Wagner
Patty Duke Astin as Dr. Peggy Wilson
Alex Cord as Dr. Alex Wilson
Donna Mills as Harriett Malone
Lloyd Nolan as Doc Bennett
Neville Brand as Larry Durant
Ty Hardin as Walt Fleming
Gene Evans as Dan Harter
Erik Estrada as Frank
Michelle Stacy as Judy

Production

The film was directed in the cities of Silverton and Yamhill, in Oregon.

Release

Fire! premiered on May 8, 1977 on NBC on two-hours length; it was later cut to ninety minutes and rerun in tandem with another TV disaster movie, Flood!, also produced by Irwin Allen.

The New York Times called it "mindless escapism."^[2]

Titles around the world

Det flammande helvevet (Sweden)
El bosque en llamas (Spain)
Horizons en flammes (France)
Il colosso di fuoco (Italy)
Horizont in Flammen (West Germany)
Krwawe pieklo (Poland)
Ti nyhta pou oi ouranoi epiasan fotia (Greece)
Tuhoavat liekit (Finland)

References

^ TV MOVIE REVIEW: 'Fire': Another Story of Disaster Thomas, Kevin. Los Angeles Times6 May 1977: g29.
^ TV WEEKEND By JOHN J. O'CONNOR. New York Times (1923-Current file); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]06 May 1977: 75.

External links

Fire! (1977) at IMDb
Fire! (1977) at AllMovie

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[1] TV MOVIE REVIEW: 'Fire': Another Story of Disaster Thomas, Kevin. Los Angeles Times6 May 1977: g29.

[2] TV WEEKEND By JOHN J. O'CONNOR. New York Times (1923-Current file); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]06 May 1977: 75.

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v t e Irwin Allen productions
Films	Double Dynamite (1951) A Girl in Every Port (1952) The Sea Around Us (1953) Dangerous Mission (1954) The Animal World (1956) The Story of Mankind (1957) The Big Circus (1959) The Lost World (1960) Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962) The Poseidon Adventure (1972) The Towering Inferno (1974) Viva Knievel! (1977) The Swarm (1978) Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) When Time Ran Out (1980)
Television series	Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–68) Lost in Space (1965–68) The Time Tunnel (1966–67) Land of the Giants (1968–70) The Swiss Family Robinson (1975–76) Code Red (1981–82)
TV films	The Man from the 25th Century (1968) (short) City Beneath the Sea (1971) Adventures of the Queen (1975) Time Travelers (1976) Flood! (1976) Fire! (1977) The Return of Captain Nemo (1978) Hanging by a Thread (1979) The Memory of Eva Ryker (1980) The Night the Bridge Fell Down (1983) Cave-In! (1983) Alice in Wonderland (1985)