Smoke jumper Dick Widmark and his team of smoke jumpers jump into a forest fire, all of them die except for Widmark who has that dreaded movie disease amnesia and can't remember what happened. The rest of the film involves Widmark having to prove he wasn't responsible for the deaths of his men etc.
If you can sit through this boring drama you get to see some cool forest fire footage with lots of trees exploding and burning. This kind of stuff is always fascinating to see since the film was shot in the early 1950's which means no computer imagery and involves actually sticking actors in the middle of a burning forest.
The film is also interesting for a lot of on location early color filming in rural Hicksville USA also known as Montana. Lots of cool old cars and buildings to look at.
Widmark was always a bad ass but the story in this film is very lame. However the spectacular fire fighting sequence towards the end is very impressive
99 minutes
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