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Panic in the City
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Wikipedia article
'Panic in the City' is a 1968 American science fiction thriller film directed by Eddie Davis and written by Eddie Davis and Charles E. Savage. The film is about nuclear weapons, set and filmed on location in Los Angeles in 1967. The film stars Howard Duff, Linda Cristal, Stephen McNally, Nehemiah Persoff, Anne Jeffreys, Oscar Beregi Jr. and Gregory Morton. The film was released in October 1968.
Plot
An agent of the National Bureau of Investigation, Dave Pomeroy, investigates the death of a European nuclear scientist and discovers a Communist plot to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles in order to instigate World War III. Once the bomb is activated and Pomeroy receives a lethal dose of ionizing radiation from it, he sacrifices himself to save the city by flying the bomb out over the Pacific Ocean in a helicopter.
Cast
*Howard Duff as Dave Pomeroy
*Linda Cristal as Dr. Paula Stevens
*Stephen McNally as James Kincade
*Nehemiah Persoff as August Best
*Anne Jeffreys as Myra Pryor
*Oscar Beregi Jr. as Dr. Paul Cerbo
*Gregory Morton as Steadman
*Dennis Hopper as Goff
*George Barrows as Ernest
*John Hoyt as Dr. Milton Becker
*Steve Franken as Hal Johnson
*Wesley Lau as Police Lt. Brady
See also
*List of American films of 1968
References
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