City on Fire Movie Review 1978

Arguably the worst of Hollywood's disaster epics, this stinker came at the end of the cycle. The plot borrows heavily from such boxoffice heavyweights as "The Towering Inferno" and "The Poseidon Adventure." A cast of second-magnitude stars (with the exception of Henry Fonda) deals with civic corruption, an enraged pyromaniac, political ambitions, blackmail, and assorted hanky-panky. Several stuntmen are set afire, but the titular blaze is handled with unimpressive effects. The rest is choppy editing, cliched situations, and flat characters.

Distribution

Available on VHS
Running time 101 minutes.
Originally from Canadian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Mystery & Suspense, Disaster Flicks, Fires, Canada, Woofs!

Cast

Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen, Henry Fonda, Ava Gardner

Director

Alvin Rakoff

Producer

Claude Heroux