City on Fire

Un film de Alvin Rakoff

Pays : Canada, États-Unis
Année de sortie : 1978
Genre : Fiction, Action, Catastrophes
Langue.s : Anglais
Durée originale : 104 minutes

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. (IMDB)

Générique

Réalisation

Alvin Rakoff

Images

René Verzier

Producteur

Claude Héroux

Interprétation

Susan Clark : 2 ; Diana Brockhurst-Lautrec
Henry Fonda : 7 ; Chief Albert Risley
James Franciscus : 5 ; Jimbo
Ava Gardner : 6 ; Maggie Grayson
Barry Newman : 1 ; Dr. Frank Whitman
Leslie Nielsen : 4 ; Mayor William Dudley
Shelley Winters : 3 ; Nurse Andrea Harper

Musique

Matthew McCauley
William McCauley

Direction artistique

Claude Marchand

Prise de son

Ken Heeley-Ray

Montage images

Jacques Clairoux
Jean-Pol Passet

Société de production

Astral Bellevue Pathé (Québec)
City on Fire Productions (Québec)
Sandy Howard Productions (États-Unis)