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Fire! (1977 film)

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]

Fire!

  • Action
  • Drama
  • Disaster

Norman Katkov
Arthur Weiss

United States

English

Irwin Allen

Dennis Dalzell

Bill Brame

100 minutes

NBC

May 8, 1977 (1977-05-08)

Plot[edit]

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.

as Sam Brisbane

Ernest Borgnine

as Martha Wagner

Vera Miles

as Dr. Peggy Wilson

Patty Duke Astin

as Dr. Alex Wilson

Alex Cord

as Harriett Malone

Donna Mills

as Doc Bennett

Lloyd Nolan

as Larry Durant

Neville Brand

as Walt Fleming

Ty Hardin

as Dan Harter

Gene Evans

as Frank

Erik Estrada

Michelle Stacy as Judy

Production[edit]

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

Release[edit]

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]

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Ti nyhta pou oi ouranoi epiasan fotia (Greece)

Tuhoavat liekit (Finland)

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