Fire! (1977 film)

Fire!
Directed by	Earl Bellamy
Written by	Norman Kathov Arthur Weiss
Produced by	Irwin Allen
Starring	Ernest Borgnine Vera Miles Patty Duke
Cinematography	Dennis Dalzell
Edited by	Bill Brame
Music by	Richard LaSalle
Distributed by	NBC Warner Bros. Television
Release date	1977 (1977)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Fire! is a 1977 action TV movie, made for NBC television and Warner Bros. Television, directed by Earl Bellamy, who directed other disaster film one year before, Flood!. The film's plot is about a convict who 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.

Cast

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

Production

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

Releasing

The film premiered on May 8, 1977 on NBC and Warner Bros. Television, on two-hours, later was cut to ninety minutes, and rerun in tandem with another TV disaster movie, Flood!, produced by Irwin Allen.

Titles around the world

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

External links

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