6.8 /10 1 Votes
Directed by Cornel Wilde Music by Laurindo Almeida Production
company Theodora Productions Director Cornel Wilde Music director Laurindo Almeida | 6.8/10 IMDb Written by Ted Sherdeman Edited by Everett Douglas Initial release 21 May 1958 Cinematography Ellsworth Fredericks Produced by Cornel Wilde | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Cornel Wilde
Jean Wallace
Abbe Lane
Francis Lederer
Michael Landon
Joe E. Ross Cast Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Michael Landon, Abbe Lane, Francis Lederer Similar Lancelot and Guinevere, The Naked Prey, The Walls of Jericho, Caged Fury, The Homestretch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maracaibo is a 1958 American drama film directed by Cornel Wilde and written by Ted Sherdeman. The film stars Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Abbe Lane, Francis Lederer, Michael Landon and Joe E. Ross. The film was released on May 21, 1958, by Paramount Pictures.
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Plot
Red Adair–type former Navy Frogman Vic Scott is on vacation in Venezuela when a huge oil fire at a well of his rich friend erupts. While romancing a newly-famous novelist from New York a colleague locates him and persuades him to help put out the blaze, just as theirs is starting.
More romance than adventure for the first two-thirds of the film, Maracaibo ultimately settles down to dramatic scenes of underwater work to extinguish the fire before a huge storm arrives. The action is interrupted from time to time to explore the romantic angle, including scenes between Abbe Lane's character and Cornel Wilde's, who were lovers only a few years prior—though she is now engaged to the rich oil baron.
Will her past be revealed? Will the New York author get her man? Will Vic Scott put out the fire near Maracaibo before it reaches the city, then finally settle down?
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