| Red Skies of Montana | |
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| Directed by | Joseph M. Newman |
| Screenplay by | Harry Kleiner |
| Story by | Art Cohen |
| Based on | Fire by George R. Stewart |
| Produced by | Samuel G. Engel |
| Starring | Richard Widmark Constance Smith Jeffrey Hunter Richard Boone |
| Cinematography | Charles G. Clarke |
| Edited by | William Reynolds |
| Music by | Sol Kaplan |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.25 million (US rentals)[1] |
Red Skies of Montana is a 1952 American adventure drama film directed by Joseph M. Newman and starring Richard Widmark, Constance Smith and Jeffrey Hunter. Widmark stars as a smokejumper who attempts to save his crew while being overrun by a forest fire, not only to preserve their lives, but to redeem himself after being the only survivor of a previous disaster.
The film was loosely based on the August 1949 Mann Gulch fire,[2] and filmed on location in Technicolor with the cooperation of the United States Forest Service.
Bugle Mountain (also known as "Bugle Peak"), located in the Scapegoat Wilderness near Lincoln, Montana, gave its name to the fictional setting of the forest fire in the Selway National Forest shown during the first 30 minutes of the film.
- ^ 'Top Box-Office Hits of 1952', Variety, January 7, 1953
- ^ Maclean, Norman. Young Men and Fire. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1972. p.155 ISBN 0-226-50062-4