City on Fire

1979

Action / Drama

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 24% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 24% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.4/10 10 1713 1.7K

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Plot summary

An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.

Director

Alvin Rakoff Photo
Alvin Rakoff

Top cast

Leslie Nielsen Photo
Leslie Nielsen as Mayor William Dudley
Shelley Winters Photo
Shelley Winters as Nurse Andrea Harper
Ava Gardner Photo
Ava Gardner as Maggie Grayson
Henry Fonda Photo
Henry Fonda as Fire Chief Albert Risley
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977.63 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 2
1.77 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Sycotron 3 / 10

Irwin Allen it ain't

One of the last of the 70's disaster movie made after T.V. had saturated the genre. The only reason I saw this when it played in a theater was because it was double-billed with "Phantasm" which I HAD to see. The only thing I really remember about this movie was the one scene where some woman has to give mouth to mouth to some old guy who is spitting up a vile looking substance. That frightened me away from CPR forever. I think you will be rooting for the fire before the movie ends.
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Reviewed by gridoon 5 / 10

Another late-70s disaster time-waster.

"City on Fire" was made in 1979, when the disaster genre was already past its prime - and a dispirited, tired affair it is. Most of the actors (except for the amusingly unbalanced villain) sleepwalk through their roles, possibly knowing that the film had no chance of reviving the genre. At least there are some pretty realistic effects, though the movie never makes clear how exactly the fire spread over the entire city. (**)

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