City of Fear | |
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Directed by | Irving Lerner |
Written by | Robert Dillon Steven Ritch |
Produced by | Leon Chooluck |
Starring | Vince Edwards Lyle Talbot John Archer |
Cinematography | Lucien Ballard |
Edited by | Robert Lawrence |
Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures Corporation |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
City of Fear is a 1959 American film noir directed by Irving Lerner.
Vince, an escaped convict from San Quentin headed for Los Angeles, has a canister in his possession that he thinks has heroin inside of it. It does not; instead, it contains Cobalt-60, a dangerous nuclear substance with enough radiation to kill most of the population of Los Angeles. As continued exposure to the element is slowly killing Vince, authorities move to capture him and the canister.