Fire Down Below (1997 film)
Fire Down Below is a 1997 American action film starring Steven Seagal and directed by Flix Enrquez Alcal in his directorial debut. The film also includes cameos by country music performers Randy Travis, Mark Collie, Ed Bruce, Marty Stuart and Travis Tritt, and countryrocker and the Band member Levon Helm. Steven Seagal plays Jack Taggart, an EPA agent who investigates a Kentucky mine and helps locals stand up for their rights. The film was released in the United States on September 5, 1997.
It is discovered that Hanner Coal Company, owned by Orin Hanner Sr. Kris Kristoffersson, is being paid to dump toxic waste into an abandoned coal mine shaft, so Jack is assigned to go to the small town of Jackson, where his cover is that of assistant and volunteer carpenter to a local church. He stays in a room in the churchs basement, and begins his cover work by repairing the roof at a house where one of the children is sick because of the pollution. He attempts to question the family, but they do not have much to say. He has little better results elsewhere even the man who tipped off the EPA is decidedly taciturn. While testing the water, Taggart wanders into a local marijuana field, and is accosted by the growers. After disarming them, he tells them that he has no interest in arresting them.The men responsible for the other agents death soon notice Taggarts presence. As a newcomer to the small local community, he is threatened by Hanners son Orin, Jr. Brad Hunt, the incompetent local tool of the company, the corrupt local Sheriff Lloyd Foley Ed Bruce, and several thugs that work for them. The thugs in question start by leaving two rattlesnakes in his dwelling Taggart responds by capturing the snakes alive and leaving them in the pickup that the thugs were driving, causing them to crash. Soon after, five of them attack him while he is buying supplies, and receive a severe beating as a result. Orin then orders one of his truck drivers to arrange an accident by running him off the road, but Taggart escapes alive while the driver is killed. ........
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