Brushfire! is a 1962 low budget black-and-white

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adventure

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produced, directed and co-written by Jack Warner, Jr the only son of

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Warner planned on making two more films under his Obelisk Productions company but they were never produced. It was filmed at the time of the beginning of American involvement in Viet Nam and

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brushfire conflicts.

Plot

Two American World War II veterans Jeff ( John Ireland) and Chevern (

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) reside as planters in an unnamed Southeast Asian nation. They are drawn into a conflict with a group of

guerrilla Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, Partisan (military), partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians, which may include Children in the military, recruite ...

s led by Martin ( Carl Esmond) and Vlad ( Howard Caine) who have abducted a young American couple Tony (Al Avalon) and Easter ( Jo Morrow) Banford. The two use their jungle fighting expertise and knowledge of the local land to rescue them and wipe out the guerrillas. Jeff states that the rescue effort was worth the high cost in lives because it kept an uprising from developing into a rebellion.p.13 Devine, Jeremy M. ''Vietnam at 24 Frames per Second'' 1999 University of Texas Press

Cast

* John Ireland as Jeff *

as Chevern * Carl Esmond as Martin * Howard Caine as Vlad * Al Avalon as Tony * Jo Morrow as Easter *

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as Lin Chan

References

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* 1962 films Vietnam War films American war films American black-and-white films Paramount Pictures films 1962 adventure films 1962 directorial debut films 1960s English-language films 1960s American films Films scored by Irving Gertz English-language adventure films {{1960s-adventure-film-stub