City on Fire
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Alvin Rakoff
Leslie Nielsen
James Franciscus
Susan Clark
Sonny Forbes
Barry Newman
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
William Dudley is a corrupt mayor who has allowed a chemical works to be built right in the centre of town. When an employee at the works has been denied an expected promotion and, in addition, finds himself fired shortly thereafter, he decides to take his revenge by opening the valves to the storage vats and their interconnecting pipes. It doesn't take long for this act of petty vandalism to start a fire that soon engulfs an entire metropolis! The drama focuses on a newly built hospital which, like all civic buildings that went up during the mayor's crooked administration, is shoddily built and poorly equipped.
Director
Alvin Rakoff
Cast
Leslie Nielsen
James Franciscus
Susan Clark
Sonny Forbes
Barry Newman
Cec Linder
Lee Murray
Shelley Winters
Richard Donat
Jefferson Mappin
Ken James
Donald Pilon
Janice Chaikelson
Earl Pennington
Hilary Lebow
Steven Chaikelson
Bronwen Mantel
Jerome Thiberghien
Henry Fonda
Terry Haig
Ava Gardner
Jonathan Welsh
Crew
John Alese
Charles Braive
Jacques Clairoux
William M Cruse
Cliff Culley
Michele Dion
Dennis Drummond
Yvon Duhaime
Dona Friedberg
Harold Greenberg
Robert Grieve
Daniel Hausman
Ken Heeley-ray
Claude Heroux
Roger Heroux
Jack Hill
Sandy Howard
Csaba Kertesz
Lyse Lafontaine
Celine Lafreniere
Frank Lenk
David P Lewis
Howard R Lipson
Carol Lynn
Claude Marchand
Matthew Mccauley
William Mccauley
William Mccrow
James A Mendrala
Kate Morris
Lawrence Nesis
Grant Page
Jean-pol Passet
Patrick Rousseau
John Shirley
John Shirley
Rene Verzier
Cliff Wenger
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
All it takes is one man, could be anybody - your neighbor, my neighbor - one man to destroy a city.- Chief Albert Risley
What's eating you now? You have a new job and the city has a beautiful new hospital.- Mayor William Dudley
That's right, some new hospital. It looks really good on the outside. But thanks to your political favors here and there of saving money and cut backs, I'm stuck with the patch-up job!- Dr. Frank Whitman
Well nothing is perfect. Everything's compromised. Now, if you were the mayor of a big city and you have to get things done, you have to learn to give and take.- Mayor William Dudley
Try talking to a surgeon about compromise during an open-heart operation.- Dr. Frank Whitman
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States on Video May 1986
Released in United States September 1979
Released in United States Summer August 1, 1979
Released in United States on Video May 1986
Released in United States Summer August 1, 1979
Released in United States September 1979
