Actors these days make reputations by playing junkies, warlocks, maniacs, hippies, fags and dictators. Somehow it is reassuring to know that there's still an actor left who will play a leathery oil-well firefighter with the unlikely name of Chance Buckman. That's John Wayne. The Duke may not be too good at rendering Brechtian anguish, but no one else can play a better John Wayne.
In Hellfighters, the Duke dashes around the world blasting out spectacular blazes in other people's wells. When he isn't hellfighting, he puzzles out all sorts of complicated personal relationships: Will he get back together with his wife? Will...
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