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Sign In. City on Fire Hide Spoilers. I’m a disaster movie fan and completist so I’ve been tracking this down for years, I wish I could say it was worth it. It’s good for a laugh or two at the improbable idiocy of the plot but that’s about the end of its worth. Closing in on the bottom of the barrel this flick makes no sense, picking up and dropping plot points at random intervals. The villain of this thing is so sketchily drawn you have only the vaguest idea of what his motive is.
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Sign In. City on Fire Hide Spoilers. I’m a disaster movie fan and completist so I’ve been tracking this down for years, I wish I could say it was worth it. It’s good for a laugh or two at the improbable idiocy of the plot but that’s about the end of its worth. Closing in on the bottom of the barrel this flick makes no sense, picking up and dropping plot points at random intervals. The villain of this thing is so sketchily drawn you have only the vaguest idea of what his motive is.
That is the largest failing of the film there is no clear focus to. None of the characters are compelling enough to invest in and the special effects are laughable. Not a single one is clearly drawn enough for the viewer to know who they are so you can root for. Full of one time stars this uses them ill. Shelley Winters at least tries to give a performance but Ava Gardner and Henry Fonda, both looking the worse for wear, obviously did it strictly for the loot and are phoning it in, Henry being the worst offender.
If you’re a disaster movie junkie this is a must see but for anyone else its a Grade Z mess. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote. City On Fire is a disaster movie about At the end of the ‘s and pretty much at the end of the disaster movie’s original box office trend came City On Fire a film that fizzled fast but featuring a certain player out of a certain earlier disaster movie, can you guess????
It’s Ava Gardner, having survived Earthquake and The Cassandra Crossing, City On Fire would be her final disaster movie, although it’s true in this film she isn’t given much to do, she does add a comic twist to a did city on fire make money that shouldn’t really be funny in the first place.
City On Fire tells the story of a modern day large American city, in reality that large American city was actually Montreal, in Canada, this city which is never named has a rather large, looming, dangerous feature, an oil refinery, starting to get an idea of what might happen in this film? Yes if you have fired up your imagination you may have already guessed that it is this oil refinery and one annoyed employee who is passed over for promotion who sets off a change of events that leads to a series of explosions at the plant and across the city, buildings burst into flames, people run around screaming, cars are thrown into the air, TV presenters swear and walls fall down revealing men on the toilet.
As the heat is turned up and city starts to burn people at the brand new hospital are trapped in a potential firestorm, this would mean that all the oxygen within the hospital would be burnt out along with everything else in the surrounding area.
A rescue attempt is set in motion for the trapped people and patients. The film has long been given a rough ride, true it isn’t an amazing piece of cinema and it does rely to heavily on stock footage of fires but among that is this fairly interesting and exciting story of the rescue attempt watched under by the supervision of fire chief Henry Fonda and local television presenter Ava Gardner, Shelley Winters is also thrown in for good measure having gone belly up in the Poseidon Adventure here she gets all hot under the collar as a caring but tough talking nurse.
These three Hollywood legends are joined by funny man Leslie Neilsen who believe it or not is mayor of doomed city and only a few years away from his role in disaster movie spoof Airplane and a bunch of lesser names such as Barry Newman and Susan Clark in lead roles as chief doctor and rich widow whose money was burning a hole in her pocket. Not a great film but it’s Luke warm build up means the film fizzles out before it’s big bang finish.
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. RealLiveClaude 15 May This movie had a good idea at a start: the city being burned the same way as Chicago in the 19th Century, London on the 18th Century or Rome, under Nero’s rules in about 70 A.
And shall we say Pompei in 79 A. But in the 20th Century. Good idea! But the genre has passed an earthquake, a high rise building, a cruiseship and so on And passing again the City of Montreal as a Midwest city, with a big oil field next to it Bring on some big stars, some washed up, others who still has it and some second rates, then throw this scenario like The Towering Inferno with soap-like intrigue, with the center subject: the opening of a brand new hospital The result: a boring, too slow and predictable movie, with low-rated special effects and the worst cinematography ever for a movie.
And noticing for the climatic scenes that it remained in one city street set build on an old quarry in East End Montreal. And to think of it, looking closely, all cardboard Sad that the genre was washed-up at the time.
Acting was so-so. Thank God Mr. Fonda did won an Academy Award two years later in a better film On Golden Pondbut I believe he should have passed this one And to listen to the French Dubbing made in Paris Wondering who dubbed this crap Maybe this film should be redone one day But hey, aren’t we tired of seeing those artificial catastrophes when real ones occurred recently? A movie to forget Despite its all-star cast MST3K did a nice job with this in their first season.
It is one of the better films Joel and the Bots have roasted — not saying much since most of their little treats occupy the worst films of all time here on IMDb. The acting is variable, and you occasionally feel as if you are watching two different films which were spliced together in order to reach an hour and a half. Leslie Nielson, as ridiculous as it may seem, delivers the best dramatic performance of the lot. Basically, a obsessive individual gets the wrong promotion at an oil refinery, mouths off at his boss and then, after getting fired, leaks oil all over the entire city and sets it ablaze.
Like most of the disaster films of its time, we are introduced to different characters who will play some role as either heroes or commentators on the events. The film climaxes as the massive fire approaches a brand-new hospital where Mr. Numan plays one of the heads of surgery.
If you get a chance to see this in its MST3K version, by all means do so. It is one of the earliest truly funny episodes of the legendary. If you can’t see this with Joel and the bots, avoid it at all costs. It burns Sycotron 20 February One of the last of the 70’s disaster movie made after T. 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. Not the lemon it’s often branded, «City on Fire» is an entertaining Canadian disaster movie with a capable cast, some good sets and special effects, and better than average dialogue.
Two separate fires converge to create an inferno of biblical proportions, with various notables becoming victims.
The plot focuses on a disgruntled oil refinery employee Welsh who triggers one of the blazes, while in another part of the city, pre-pubescent kids discover that cigarettes really do kill. Local surgeon’s dependable Barry Newman disenchantment with bureaucracy, goes on temporary hiatus as he tries to save his hospital, that lies in the path of destruction.
His valiant efforts hampered by the mayor’s Nielsen ill advised attempts to achieve martyrdom, spurred on by the lure of the polls.
Sad Ava Gardner plays an alcoholic has-been news anchor, a timely reflection of her status as a faded Hollywood star at the time, while James Franciscus is wasted in a frivolous supporting role as her line producer. Many recognisable local faces fill out the peripheral roles Donat, Linder, Jamesand heavyweights Winters and Fonda provide nice human touches to their dedicated civil servant types.
Overall, there’s plenty of coverage and a nice symmetry between the righteous and the wrongdoers. Unlike «Towering Inferno» the varnish has been stripped by the flames, and there’s no holding back on special effects — as such, expect to see a few gory burns victims.
It’s not as sophisticated or indeed convoluted as «Backdraft», but is perhaps an improvement on the Irwin Allen production line that had a mortgage on this genre throughout the 70’s. So give this so-called lemon a try and I think you’ll find the juice is worth the squeeze. CooperCom 5 December City on fire is a disaster-film which is better than it’s reputation.
The actors is perhaps as so good as in «Towering Inferno», but the movie have some real exciting scenes to show, and it’s not exactly low-budget scenes. You know, it’s funny. The story is straightforward. A messed-up arsonist the intensely unlikeable Jonathan Welsh decides to burn down an oil refinery that just had him sacked. The whole city is soon aflame, with a hospital providing a focus point for the climactic action.
An ensemble cast go through the motions, and you just know some of them won’t make the end credits. There’s very little to dislike about this film. The budget is surprisingly high and the disaster scenes have an authentic ring to them, with plenty of death and destruction to keep you on your toes. The script is a bit cheesy but this is normal for the era. The ’70s ambiance is just right and the film has a relatively brief running time which means the action is short and snappy.
The whole street gauntlet climax is well-staged with a maximum of excitement. Renaldo Matlin 18 February It is also clearly a movie with a big budget and the effects are convincing to the point that you can actually feel the heat and the smoke coming through your tv-set! I used to love the sarcastic trio in Mystery Science Theaterbut there are times when I feel they may have drained the tank of Really Bad Movies and in dire need of a victim, they throw themselves over movies that -when push comes to shove- really doesn’t deserve it’s legacy ridiculed and destroyed in this manner.
And to contradict one of the other user comments in here: Leslie Nielsen actually DID do a good job as the unselfish mayor in the movie believe it or not. Poor disaster film. City on Fire is one of the poorest of the 70s disaster films, but not the very worst Meteor, Avalanche, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure are all a touch worse.
It features a stellar cast that includes Ava Gardner, Henry Fonda, Barry Newman and Leslie Neilsen, but most of them seem bored by the material and just hover around in front of the fire, spouting bad dialogue and wondering aloud how much worse it will get and how many more victims it will claim.
The fire is started by a disgruntled employee at a power station. Within an hour, it has spread beyond the power station to the whole city, and the film focuses in particular on the hospital, which is fast becoming an unsurvivable inferno.
After one especially brutal workday, Mr. Fige. I started on the mustachian path about four years ago, first buying a house where I live, my mortgage on a great house on a 15 year loan is about what I would pay to rent a terrible placethen started stashing. How do I know you? Keep more like these coming!
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