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While coal fires burn beneath a depressed mining town a greedy businessman stops at nothing to buy up the mineral rights.

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    • Author: Preve
    I've been a huge devoted fan of Barbara Mandrell's since I was 3 in 1980. It started with her variety show and then when I was 7 in 1984, I saw Barbara's TV movie Burning Rage. I loved the film and thought Barbara did excellent in her first film. Some other reviewer called Barbara "wooden," which I didn't appreciate and they also called Tom Wopat (Luke Duke of The Dukes Of Hazzard), who played Tom Silver "bland." Obviously this person is either a Country Music and Dukes Of Hazzard hater or they just don't know good acting.
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    • Author: Uste
    Popular "country music" performer Barbara Mandrell makes an inauspicious feature film debut, in this work made for television, as Kate Bishop, a federal agency geologist assigned to assist residents of an imaginary town: Vashti, Tennessee (actual filming is at Lake City in eastern Tennessee's Appalachian region) in relocating from their homes endangered by the potential of gas explosions due to underground fires within coal mines beneath the town and, while performing her duties, she discovers a possible conspiracy organized by a local businessman, using the blazes for his own profit and thereby altering the focus of Kate's function. Her perspective shifts as well by an immediate romantic involvement with the local fish and game warden, played blandly by Tom Wopat, and as the television pedigree of the piece becomes increasingly evident, so does choppy editing and general technical mediocrity, with a script lacking in logic, continuity flaws abounding, and pedestrian playing, notably by the pleasant but wooden Mandrell, although there is role commitment from always reliable Carol Kane who gathers in acting honours in what is ultimately a trite and forgettable affair.
  • Credited cast:
    Barbara Mandrell Barbara Mandrell - Kate Bishop
    Tom Wopat Tom Wopat - Tom Silver
    Bert Remsen Bert Remsen - J.D. Moses
    John Pleshette John Pleshette - Frank Vandenberg
    Mary Grace Canfield Mary Grace Canfield - Nettie McFadden
    Carol Kane Carol Kane - Mary Harwood
    Eddie Albert Eddie Albert - Will Larson
    Terri Gardner Terri Gardner - June Summers
    Doug Bledsoe Doug Bledsoe - Mike Brockey
    Robert Schuch Robert Schuch - Luke Brockey
    Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
    Ron Bledsoe Ron Bledsoe - Man in bar
    Nikki Creswell Nikki Creswell - Little Girl
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