City on Fire
About City on Fire
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.
City on Fire is a 1979 action film directed by Alvin Rakoff. It runs 106 minutes and was released in July 1979.
The film is filed under rescue, explosion, disaster, and fire.
Barry Newman takes the lead as Dr. Frank Whitman, Susan Clark as Diana Brockhurst-Lautrec, Shelley Winters as Nurse Andrea Harper, and Leslie Nielsen as Mayor William Dudley. The screenplay is by Céline La Frenière and David P. Lewis. Produced by Canadian Film Development Corporation.
The Towering Inferno, World Trade Center, and Deepwater Horizon make useful companions to City on Fire, all filed under disaster movie. It carries a R rating.