City on Fire Disaster Strikes

[R87A]

One american city on fire is not enough for better future...

[MASmith91]

1:20 Castle Thunder for an explosion really?

[snakes3425]

I'm proabably a minority on this but this film begs for a remake

[mnmcv1]

worth seeing just to hear Ava Gardner drop an F bomb.

[JillC2]

Anyone else get that burning sensation?

[goodguysdoll]

i am completely an utterly confused. WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN THIS MOVIE???!!!

[DoktorStrangelove]

Some disaster movies just don't deliver the goods. This right here? This DELIVERS. Like UPS.

[FormerlyKnownAsShun]

I bet Michael bay use to jack off to this shit so hard as a kid.

[Schnorbs]

It's the day they mixed up the water supply pipes with the petrol supply pipes.

Mind you, Buncefield anyone?

[jerryaltman]

In this city everthing is flamable, even the river.

[Aquarius199]

3:17 LOL at the guy on the toilet.

[underwaterwoman30]

@Aquarius199 : Rumor has it he had the Sh++ scared out of him so he was in the right place anyway.

[raymondleeleggs]

Guy was on the oilet LOL !

[ShowatoHeisei]

Gorgeous cast, but this disaster movie is not well-known, as far as I know.

I wonder if this movie is worth watching...????

[underwaterwoman30]

@ShowatoHeisei : It's good for "B" rated entertainment in regard to disaster movies and in the words of Leslie Neilsen.......... "and don't call me shirley".

[raymondleeleggs]

This movie was remade in 2000 as ABLAZE, it used a lot of stock footage from this movie and striking distance!

[riderfanmike]

In 2009 you could computer generate everything and have it turn out much more realistic. I recognized at least one shot from the movie "Earthquake" in there.

[DC322]

The background of the city needs to be on fire instead of those northern lights show. Also the hospital needs to be more appearance instead of this first floor thing.

[darkmastersoru]

how does a fire cause an earthquake to an entire city

[DisasterFlicks]

idk your guess is as good as mine lol :)

[MsipmsonW]

@DisasterFlicks It could have been course by an explosive shockwave. Mind you, it would have to be a very big explosion. lol

[snakes3425]

@MsipmsonW

This is a chain reaction disaster a series of small accidents causing a greater disaster, once again I use the Texas City disaster as an example the initial explosion vaporized the Grandcamp but it also set fire to refineries and storage tanks in the port itself, which exploded as well and the debries from the ship and refineries rained down on the areas beyond the port, setting off fires and causing damage there as well

[snakes3425]

@DisasterFlicks

If a fire sets off enough explosive material the shockwave can be felt for miles from the epicenter, I brought up the fact that this film reminded me of the Texas City Disaster, in that event when the Grandcamp exploded the force of the explosion caused damage in Houston, Galvaston and the force of the blast was felt as far away as 100 miles from the epicenter, also in the 1917 Halifax Disaster the shockwave from the blast was felt as far away as 220 miles from the epicenter

[MASmith91]

@darkmastersoru Easy, Because the plot says so!

[snakes3425]

I remember seeing this movie with my grandmother when I was a kid, I also remember a real disaster similiar to this film.

[DisasterFlicks]

Yeah, my mother saw this movie in theaters with my father. They used to be big disaster movie fans back in the 70's. By the way, what disaster would that be?

[snakes3425]

Texas City, 1947

[3618499]

@snakes3425

" THANK YOU, snakes3425 ! "

Too many people are ignorant of the, awesome, physical forces that can result from an explosion AND inferno. The " Texas City, TX Disaster in 1947 " is a horrific reminder of that reality. Hollywood Disaster films are, too often and unfairly, ridiculed because it's viewers are ignorant of the chain of events and time sequences these films attempt to re-dramatize.

[DC322]

Let's get the full version of City on Fire.

[sadalite]

Herbie said "AHHHHH HELP ME!!"

2:00

[Dark1998]

How did the truck lost its fuel? it's missing the previous scene.

[DC322]

The guy open the knob from the rear of the fuel tanker.

[DC322]

I mean valve.

[DC322]

1:20 no one in the tanker truck.

[DC322]

There goes the office tower.

[DisasterFlicks]

you mean a crappy scale model of an office tower lol

[DC322]

Yep, I wonder if its the same office tower at the end of the movie though.

[xunkownedx]

LOL! she said the fucks going on?!

[DC322]

Holy shit that was on the air. lol.

[justin19822]

@DC322 holy hell that was so funny i didnt know they had that word back then let alone on a movie thats 80 years old i laughed my ass off