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Cidade em Chamas

Título original: City on Fire
  • 1979
  • R
  • 1 h 46 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
4,5/10
1,7 mil
SUA AVALIAÇÃO
Cidade em Chamas (1979)
AçãoDrama

Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaA pyromaniac, 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.A pyromaniac, 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.A pyromaniac, 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.

  • Direção
    • Alvin Rakoff
  • Roteiristas
    • Jack Hill
    • David P. Lewis
    • Céline La Frenière
  • Artistas
    • Barry Newman
    • Susan Clark
    • Shelley Winters
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  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    4,5/10
    1,7 mil
    SUA AVALIAÇÃO
    • Direção
      • Alvin Rakoff
    • Roteiristas
      • Jack Hill
      • David P. Lewis
      • Céline La Frenière
    • Artistas
      • Barry Newman
      • Susan Clark
      • Shelley Winters
    • 51Avaliações de usuários
    • 23Avaliações da crítica
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    Barry Newman
    Barry Newman
    • Dr. Frank Whitman
    Susan Clark
    Susan Clark
    • Diana Brockhurst-Lautrec
    Shelley Winters
    Shelley Winters
    • Nurse Andrea Harper
    Leslie Nielsen
    Leslie Nielsen
    • Mayor William Dudley
    James Franciscus
    James Franciscus
    • Jimbo
    Ava Gardner
    Ava Gardner
    • Maggie Grayson
    Henry Fonda
    Henry Fonda
    • Fire Chief Risley
    Jonathan Welsh
    • Herman Stover
    Hilary Farr
    Hilary Farr
    • Mrs. Adams
    • (as Hilary Labow)
    Richard Donat
    Richard Donat
    • Captain Harrison Risley
    Mavor Moore
    • John O'Brien
    Donald Pilon
    Donald Pilon
    • Dr. Matwick
    Terry Haig
    • Terry James
    Cec Linder
    Cec Linder
    • Councilman Paley
    Ken James
    • Andrew
    Jefferson Mappin
    Jefferson Mappin
    • Beezer
    • (as Jeff Mappin)
    Earl Pennington
    • Mr. Clark
    Sonny Forbes
    Sonny Forbes
    • Tom
    • Direção
      • Alvin Rakoff
    • Roteiristas
      • Jack Hill
      • David P. Lewis
      • Céline La Frenière
    • Elenco e equipe completos
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    Avaliações de usuários51

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    4SnoopyStyle

    disaster film and film disaster

    This movie follows various people in a mid-sized American city. An angry employee sabotages the refinery located in the middle of the city.

    It takes a half hour before the sabotaging happens and even longer for the fire to get started. This spends way too much time introducing all these characters. The best and most important character is the fire. They really need to start blowing up stuff sooner. The audience don't care about the human characters, no matter how great the actors. They want explosions, destruction, and mayhem. There's a bit of that but it's not enough. This is before CGI so it's questionable if they could do more. The composite shot of the fire in the city skyline looks very fake. This uses a lot of stock footage to fill out the destruction. It doesn't have nearly enough action. I appreciate some of the stunt work but it's all not enough. It's also ridiculous but I'm less concerned about that.
    3Sycotron

    Irwin Allen it ain't

    One of the last of the 70's disaster movie made after T.V. had saturated the genre. 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.
    6memorable-name

    City On Fire A Real Scorcher Released When It's Genre Had Burnt Itself Out At The Box Office

    City On Fire is a disaster movie about... well a city on fire which gave several ageing Hollywood stars something to do in the late 70's. At the end of the 1970'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 film 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.
    6Chase_Witherspoon

    Barry's All Fired Up

    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, James), and 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.

    Not overlong, perhaps not unrealistic (so the tag-line warns anyway), and certainly not as clichéd as most disaster movies, "City on Fire" is an involving film with some impressive credentials and doesn't warrant the unfavourable response it often garners. 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.
    5gridoon

    Another late-70s disaster time-waster.

    "City on Fire" was made in 1979, when the disaster genre was already past its prime - and a dispirited, tired affair it is. 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. (**)

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    • Curiosidades
      Shell Oil, which owned a $600-million refinery that the production wanted to use as a location, granted permission as a gesture of raising awareness about safety issues (the dangers of locating oil refineries near cities).
    • Erros de gravação
      Although set in an unnamed American city (identifiable because of the appearance of USA flags in a few scenes), the television station setting for the movie has the call letters listed as CFTM-TV. In the United States, all television and radio station call letters begin with either the letter K (for states west of the Mississippi River), or the letter W (for states east of the Mississippi River). The letter C is used for all of Canada's provinces.
    • Citações

      [last lines]

      Fire Chief Risley: All it takes is one man, could be anybody... your neighbor, my neighbor... one man to destroy a city.

    • Conexões
      Edited from Bullitt (1968)

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    Detalhes

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    • Data de lançamento
      • 29 de agosto de 1979 (Canadá)
    • Países de origem
      • Canadá
      • Estados Unidos da América
    • Idiomas
      • Inglês
      • Francês
    • Também conhecido como
      • City on Fire
    • Locações de filme
      • Montréal, Quebec, Canadá
    • Empresas de produção
      • Astral Bellevue Pathé
      • Astral Films
      • Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC)
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    • Orçamento
      • US$ 5.300.000 (estimativa)
    • Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
      • US$ 784.181
    • Faturamento bruto mundial
      • US$ 784.181
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    Especificações técnicas

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    • Tempo de duração
      • 1 h 46 min(106 min)
    • Cor
      • Color
    • Mixagem de som
      • Mono
    • Proporção
      • 1.85 : 1

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