City on Fire (1979)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Barry Newman	...	Dr. Frank Whitman
	Susan Clark	...	Diana Brockhurst-Lautrec
	Shelley Winters	...	Nurse Andrea Harper
	Leslie Nielsen	...	Mayor William Dudley
	James Franciscus	...	Jimbo
	Ava Gardner	...	Maggie Grayson
	Henry Fonda	...	Fire Chief Albert Risley
	Jonathan Welsh	...	Herman Stover
	Hilary Labow	...	Mrs. Adams
	Richard Donat	...	Fire Captain Harrison Risley
	Mavor Moore	...	John O'Brien
	Donald Pilon	...	Dr. Matwick
	Terry Haig	...	Terry James
	Cec Linder	...	Councilman Paley
	Ken James	...	Andrew - Deputy Fire Chief

Storyline

William Dudley is a corrupt mayor of a nameless Midwestern U.S. city who has allowed a chemical refinery to be built right in the center of town, far from any river, lake or reservoir. On one typical hot summer day, Herman Stover, a dangerously disturbed employee at the works has been denied an expected promotion and in addition, finds himself fired. He then decides to take his revenge against the works by opening the valves to the storage vats and their interconnecting pipes, flooding the area and sewers with gasoline and chemicals. It doesn't take long for this act of petty vandalism to start a fire, which starts a chain reaction that causes massive explosions at the refinery, destroying it and spreading a mushroom-cloud of flame that soon engulfs the entire metropolis! The drama focuses on a newly built hospital which, like the refinery and all civic buildings that went up during the mayor's crooked administration... Written by Alfred Jingle  

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