Fire! is a 1977

1977 in film

The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network....

 action TV movie, made for NBC television and Warner Bros. Television, directed by Earl Bellamy

Earl Bellamy

Earl Arthur Bellamy was an American film and television director, producer, writer, and set decorator.-Biography:...

, who directed other disaster film one year before, Flood!

Flood!

- Cast :*Robert Culp as Steve Brannigan*Martin Milner as Paul Burke*Barbara Hershey as Mary Cutler*Richard Basehart as John Cutler*Carol Lynley as Abbie Adams*Roddy McDowall as Mr. Franklin*Cameron Mitchell as Sam Adams*Eric Olson as Andy Cutler...

. The film's plot about a convict who escapes from an Oregon

Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...

 road gang and starts a fire in a forest

Wildfire

A wildfire is any uncontrolled fire in combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or a wilderness area. Other names such as brush fire, bushfire, forest fire, desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, squirrel fire, vegetation fire, veldfire, and wilkjjofire may be used to describe the same...

, but the fire goes out of control and threatens to destroy a small mountain community.

Cast

• Ernest Borgnine
  Ernest Borgnine
  Ernest Borgnine is an American actor of television and film. His career has spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, including his Academy Award-winning turn in the 1955 film Marty...
  
   — Sam Brisbane
• Vera Miles
  Vera Miles
  Vera Miles is an American film actress who gained popularity for starring in films such as The Searchers, The Wrong Man, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Psycho and Psycho II.-Early life:...
  
   — Martha Wagner
• Patty Duke
  Patty Duke
  Anna Marie "Patty" Duke is an American actress of stage, film, and television. First becoming famous as a child star, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 16, and later starring in her eponymous sitcom for three years, she progressed to more mature roles upon playing Neely...
  
   (as Patty Duke-Astin) — Dr. Peggy Wilson
• Alex Cord
  Alex Cord
  Alex Cord is an American actor who is perhaps best known for portraying the role of Archangel on the television series Airwolf.-Biography:...
  
   — Dr. Alex Wilson
• Donna Mills
  Donna Mills
  Donna Mills is an American actress, most well known for her role as Abby Fairgate Cunningham Ewing Sumner on the primetime soap opera Knots Landing.-Early years:...
  
   — Harriett Malone
• Lloyd Nolan
  Lloyd Nolan
  Lloyd Benedict Nolan was an American film and television actor.-Biography:Nolan was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Margaret and James Nolan, who was a shoe manufacturer...
  
   — Doc Bennett
• Neville Brand
  Neville Brand
  Neville Brand was an American television and movie actor.-Early life:Neville Brand was born in Illinois. He was born to Leo and Helen Brand as one of seven children. Leo, was an electrician and bridge building steel worker in Detroit, where Neville was raised...
  
   — Larry Durant
• Ty Hardin
  Ty Hardin
  Ty Hardin, born Orison Whipple Hungerford, Jr., is a former American actor best known as the star of the 1950s ABC western television series Bronco.-Early life:...
  
   — Walt Fleming
• Gene Evans
  Gene Evans
  Gene Evans was an American actor.He was born in Holbrook, Arizona, but reared in Colton, California. His acting career began while he was serving in World War II. He performed with a theatrical troupe of GIs in Europe. Evans made his film debut in 1947 and appeared in dozens of movies and...
  
   — Dan Harter
• Michelle Stacy — Judy
• Erik Estrada
  Erik Estrada
  Henry Enrique "Erik" Estrada is an American police officer and actor, known for his co-starring lead role in the 1977–1983 United States police television series CHiPs...
  
   — Frank

Production

The film was directed in the cities of Silverton

Silverton, Oregon

Silverton is a city in Marion County, Oregon, United States, along the 45th parallel. The population was 7,414 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

 and Yamhill

Yamhill, Oregon

Yamhill is a city in Yamhill County, Oregon, United States. Located in the northern part of the county, it is situated at the intersection of Oregon Route 47 and Oregon Route 240. The population was 794 at the 2000 census. The 2008 estimate is 855 residents...

, in Oregon.

Releasing

The film premiered on May 8, 1977 on NBC and Warner Bros. Television

Warner Bros. Television

Warner Bros. Television is the television production arm of Warner Bros. Entertainment, itself part of Time Warner. Alongside CBS Television Studios, it serves as a television production arm of The CW Television Network , though it also produces shows for other networks, such as Shameless on...

, 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).