City on Fire Movie Review 1978

Information and Film Reviews for City on Fire the Movie

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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

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