City on Fire (1979)
2.4 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 46min
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- Synopsis:
- William Dudley (Leslie Nielsen) is a corrupt mayor who has allowed a chemical works to be built right in the center of town. When an employee at the works has been denied an expected promotion and, in addition, finds himself fired shortly thereafter, he decides to take his revenge by opening the valves to the storage vats and their interconnecting pipes. It doesn't take long for this act of petty vandalism to start a fire that soon engulfs an entire metropolis! The drama focuses on a newly built hospital which, like all civic buildings that went up during the mayor's crooked administration, is shoddily built and poorly equipped and is now under the fire storm headed its way. Who will survive?
- Actors:
- Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen, James Franciscus, Ava Gardner, Henry Fonda, Jonathan Welsh, Hilary Farr, Richard Donat, Mavor Moore, Donald Pilon, Terry Haig, Cec Linder, Ken James, Jefferson Mappin, Earl Pennington, Sonny Forbes, Bronwen Mantel, Janice Chaikelson
- Directors:
- Alvin Rakoff
- Producers:
- Claude Héroux
- Writers:
- Jack Hill, David P. Lewis, Céline La Frenière
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama
- Countries:
- Canada
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