When a huge fire erupts at an oil field in the wilds of the Sahara Desert, an American who specializes in fighting oil-field fires and his team are called in to put it out. As the fire rages out of control, the expert finds that he not only has to battle the fire but greed and political corruption as well.
Practical Effects
Real oil fires lit in Algeria—no CGI, just actual inferno.
Acting
Ray Milland collecting paycheck, giving zero effort, iconic.
Director
Mircea Drăgan
Ray Milland
Boss Stewart
Stuart Whitman
John Carter
Gheorghe Dinică
George "Salamandră"
Woody Strode
Ben
Tony Kendall
Tony
Jean Constantin
Jean
William Berger
Bill Mann
Radu Beligan
Profesorul Luca
Florin Piersic
Dan
Gordon Mitchell
Joe
Roberto Messina
Fred
Valentin Plătăreanu
Ionescu
Paola Senatore
Diana Astor
Mircea Diaconu
Grigore
Mihail Vasile Boghiță
Mihai
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Algeria with actual oil fires—director Mircea Drăgan smuggled Romanian crew through Iron Curtain logistics.
A communist country's critique of American capitalism, funded partly by... American distributors. Irony level: maximum.
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