City of Fear (1959)
Genre: Crime / Thriller
Duration: 81 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Irving Lerner
Stars: Vince Edwards, Lyle Talbot and John Archer
IMDb score:
6,4 (1.858)
Releasedate: 1 February 1959
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
City of Fear plot
"A million eyes wide and wild with terror!"
An escaped convict flees to Los Angeles and gets his hands on Copat 60, a radioactive powder powerful enough to wipe a major city off the map. What he doesn't know is that prolonged contact with the substance slowly causes him to die. The authorities are doing everything they can to find him and the powder.
Actors and actresses
Vince Ryker
Chief Jensen
Lt. Mark Richards
Dr. John Wallace
June Marlowe
Detective Sgt. Hank Johnson
Eddie Crown
Pete Hallon
Jeanne (as Cathy Browne)
Reviews & comments
wendyvortex
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Escaped prisoner mistakes a can of Cobalt-60 for heroin and thinks he's in good shape financially. Just wondering who the hell keeps the Kobalt-60 in a steel cylinder or what bizarre experiments they performed on prisoners in the 1950s.
Anyway, the film focuses on the question of where our escaped convict with his highly radioactive stuff is .... in metropolitan LA.
Excellent film material further, but does not rise far above the average 1950s crime film, although the radioactivity and the potential disaster still make it exciting. Nice final too.
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starbright boy (moderator films)
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This is a real movie for me. I wouldn't dare recommend him to anyone. That Irving Lerner's career contains relatively few films is a minor tragedy. This is how delicious a pulpy B movie can be. His very left-wing opinions probably pushed him to the margins of American cinema, Shorts, documentaries, B-movies and TV. But he turns a sensational fact into a film that is contrary. Which doesn't show much action, but what is in front and behind it does. Which was filmed in LA, but not in the cinematic spots, but in a way that shows the development into a car-oriented suburban city very clearly (urban planning is an interest of mine). Which gives the film a different desolate atmosphere. A cold war film about silence and telling and a very paranoid film. And very compact, forty-five minutes and a very economic plot. Predecessor Murder By Contract is even better, but this is also a delightful film. With quite interesting moral questions.
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