Cuibul salamandrelor

Cuibul salamandrelor, also known as Oil! and Oil - The Billion Dollar Fire, is a 1977 Romanian-Italian action film directed by Mircea Drăgan.[1][2]

Cuibul salamandrelor
Directed byMircea Drăgan
Produced byMircea Mohor
Dick Randall
Written byIoan Grigorescu
StarringStuart Whitman
Woody Strode
Ray Milland
Gheorghe Dinică
Music byGino Peguri
CinematographyGheorghe Cristea
Edited byLucia Anton
Release date
1977
Running time
90 minutes
CountryRomania
Italy
LanguageRomanian

Plot

An International petroleum company called Consolidated Oil covertly sets fire to an oil well in the Sahara because the government of the North African nation won't comply with their demands. Due to the extent of the damage, oil prices rise sharply. The company's president Mr. Stewart (Ray Milland) assigns John Carter, aka "Salamander", (Stuart Whitman) to deflect suspicion. However, when Carter arrives on location, a company representative hinders his efforts and implies to him that the fire was started on purpose. Consolidated Oil hires a Romanian firefighting crew with little experience in oil well fires, but the Romanian specialists team up with Carter and find proof of arson. Eventually they succeed in putting out the seven fires. Consolidated Oil tries to sabotage the firefighting but their efforts fail. The international news media exposes the conspiracy and Stewart is unmasked as one of the driving forces behind the scheme. He learns that he is to be a scapegoat and is then murdered. His secretary is not only unsurprised when she is informed of his death, but she has already written his obituary. Meanwhile, the Romanian firefighters are publicly celebrated in the unnamed Arab country.

Cast

Reception

Cuibul salamandrelor has been listed as one of the ten best films with Tony Kendall.[3]

DVD release

A PAL version has been released as Fireforce (Brennendes Inferno) by a company called Elfra. It includes an English and a German-language version as well as filmographies.

References
  1. "Cuibul salamandrelor". Archived from the original on 2013-07-10. Retrieved 2013-07-10.
  2. "Cinema Nocturna Remembers Gordon Mitchell". Retrieved 2013-07-10.
  3. "Top Tony Kendall movies". Retrieved 2013-07-10.


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