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City on Fire (1979)

Director: Alvin Rakoff

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From Time Out Film Guide

Thoroughly routine disaster movie, about the sweaty travails of a fire-fighting team squirting around a huge inferno after an explosion at an oil-refinery. To make matters worse, there's a hospital in the middle of the holocaust, with babies to deliver and emergency ops to complete. Fonda purses his lips, and the rest of the cast scream, emote and generally irritate.

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Cast & crew

Director: Alvin Rakoff

Producer: Claude Héroux

Cast: Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Shelley Winters, Leslie Nielsen, James Franciscus, Ava Gardner, Henry Fonda full cast

Genre(s): Action/Adventure, Thrillers

Duration: 106 mins


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