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Fire Down Below (1997)

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• In Spain this movie was promoted as a sequel to On Deadly Ground (1994), hence the Spanish title, "En tierra peligrosa 2".
  
  
• It took about two weeks to film the scene where Jack was being chased by the coal truck.
  
  
• Félix Enríquez Alcalá's feature film directorial debut.
  
  

• Based on writer Jeb Stuart's personal experiences. He spent his college years working as a carpenter in Appalachia where, at the time, illicit poisoning of the countryside was under investigation by the EPA.
  
  
• Marg Helgenberger visited several mines while on location to achieve a better understanding of her character.
  
  
• Just as production started on location in Kentucky, it emerged that a real EPA investigation was taking place nearby. Steven Seagal invited the EPA official to visit the set so he could chat with him about environmental issues and what he did.
  
  
• Director Uli Edel left the project early July 1996.
  
  

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