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Documentary
Director:Ronald H. Riley,David Villiers

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at how Myron Kinley and his team extinguished an out of control oil installation fire at Naft Safidi in Iran in 1951 that had been burning for 26 days.

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StatusReleased
Release DateJanuary 1, 1952
Release Dates
United Kingdom:
Theatrical - Jan 1, 1952
Runtime15dk
000
Origin CountryUnited Kingdom
Original LanguageEnglish
Spoken LanguagesEnglish

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CinemaSerf6/10

When a gas well explodes sending a jet of flames hundreds of feet high and generating an enormous heat it falls to American expert Myron Kinley to travel 3000 miles to Persia to extinguish it. What we see now demonstrates just how perilous the lives of these engineers was back in 1951. The fire had already been burning for twenty six days by the time they had installed miles of pipes to the river …

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