Movie · 1979
City on Fire
“What Happened to Them Could Happen to You... In Any City Anywhere!”
Released 11 July 1979 106 min Action More from 1979 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
An 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.
FR·01
How old were they?
Henry Fonda
as Fire Chief Risley
Shelley Winters
as Nurse Andrea Harper
Cec Linder
as Councilman Paley
Ava Gardner
as Maggie Grayson
Leslie Nielsen
as Mayor William Dudley
Barry Newman
as Dr. Frank Whitman
James Franciscus
as Jimbo
Ken James
as Andrew
Donald Pilon
as Dr. Matwick
Richard Donat
as Captain Harrison Risley
Susan Clark
as Diana Brockhurst-Lautrec
Jonathan Welsh
as Herman Stover
Anthony Sherwood
as Sam
Hilary Farr
as Mrs. Adams
Mavor Moore
as John O'Brien
Terry Haig
as Terry James
Jefferson Mappin
as Beezer
Murray Cruchley
as Tony Miller
Nancy Beatty
as Mary Stover
FR·02
The numbers
47years between the oldest and youngest billed
74Henry Fonda — oldest on the call sheet
27Hilary Farr — youngest billed
46average age of the credited cast