The Duke is in charge of a team of specialized firefighters. They go where they are needed, all over the globe. One of his men, Jim Hutton, uses his death-defying job as a way to scare up some skirt and it usually works.
When Wayne gets seriously hurt, his estranged daughter (Katharine Ross, who I bet argued with the hairdresser, lost the battle and had to walk around in what appears to be a wig on backwards) gets summoned, along with his department store heiress wife Vera Miles. Its really just a way to bring them into the story so there's no need to take his injury seriously at all.
Before you can say 'Mrs. O'Leary's cow', Hutton and Ross have entered coupledom. This angers Wayne, who knows Hutton to be a skirt-chaser, and Miles, who hated that Wayne was a firefighter and left him for that reason.
There is much drama, most of it needless. There is very little realism in the way in which the people interact. Its a stretch to think that Ross has to follow Hutton all over the globe as he is fighting deadly fires, but without that forced subplot you don't have much else to chew on.
Best scene is when Miles is allowed to let loose on an official of the Venezuelan goverment, who has let the guerillas (don't ask) too close to the firefighters. She shows the spunk that made her career much valued, for me at least. She is the perfect wife for a larger-than-life figure as John Wayne, as she seems to have a handle on how to be a person when he'd rather she were just a woman.
In all honesty, the only real reason I watched this is because Katharine Ross is in it. For that reason I am glad I saw it. 6/10.
When Wayne gets seriously hurt, his estranged daughter (Katharine Ross, who I bet argued with the hairdresser, lost the battle and had to walk around in what appears to be a wig on backwards) gets summoned, along with his department store heiress wife Vera Miles. Its really just a way to bring them into the story so there's no need to take his injury seriously at all.
Before you can say 'Mrs. O'Leary's cow', Hutton and Ross have entered coupledom. This angers Wayne, who knows Hutton to be a skirt-chaser, and Miles, who hated that Wayne was a firefighter and left him for that reason.
There is much drama, most of it needless. There is very little realism in the way in which the people interact. Its a stretch to think that Ross has to follow Hutton all over the globe as he is fighting deadly fires, but without that forced subplot you don't have much else to chew on.
Best scene is when Miles is allowed to let loose on an official of the Venezuelan goverment, who has let the guerillas (don't ask) too close to the firefighters. She shows the spunk that made her career much valued, for me at least. She is the perfect wife for a larger-than-life figure as John Wayne, as she seems to have a handle on how to be a person when he'd rather she were just a woman.
In all honesty, the only real reason I watched this is because Katharine Ross is in it. For that reason I am glad I saw it. 6/10.