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Bookmark this pageCity on Fire (1979)
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Movie review
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.Author: GA
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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