The Night the City Screamed (1980)
DIRECTOR: Harry Falk (Death Squad, High Desert Kill)
STARS: Georg Stanford Brown (Dayton's Devils, Stir Crazy), Raymond Burr (Ironside, Amazing World of Physic Phenomena) , David Cassidy (The Spirit of '76), Robert Culp (Hickey and Boggs), Clifton Davis (Superdome), George DiCenzo (Helter Skelter), Gary Frank (Enemy Territory), Linda Purl (Visiting Hours), Vic Tayback (Blood and Lace), Dick Anthony Williams (The Deep), Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek), Don Meredith (Police Story), Shelley Smith (Simon & Simon), Christina Hart (Helter Skelter, Mean Dog Blues)
SYNOPSIS: A freak accident at a power station causes all the electricity in a large metropolitan city to be cut off just as night falls. We see all the various residents struggling with the blackout disaster. Trying to fix the problem we have an engineer (DiCenzo), politicians (Culp, Brown, Burr) and the police (Cassidy, Davis). Meanwhile citizens like Linda Purl, Vic Tayback and Gary Frank try to stay alive and not get robbed or raped. The plot bounces back and forth between all the players as they deal with pressure from the mayor, technical problems, looters, and being stuck in an elevator. The scenes with mobs of people ransacking stores and running through the streets are surprisingly realistic. An entertaining made-for-TV thriller that's packed with many familiar faces from the late 70's / early 80's. Plus you get to see Jonathan Frakes without his usual facial hair and David Cassidy with a mustache.
Fullscreen / Color
Region Free / Code Free DVD-R
DIRECTOR: Harry Falk (Death Squad, High Desert Kill)
STARS: Georg Stanford Brown (Dayton's Devils, Stir Crazy), Raymond Burr (Ironside, Amazing World of Physic Phenomena) , David Cassidy (The Spirit of '76), Robert Culp (Hickey and Boggs), Clifton Davis (Superdome), George DiCenzo (Helter Skelter), Gary Frank (Enemy Territory), Linda Purl (Visiting Hours), Vic Tayback (Blood and Lace), Dick Anthony Williams (The Deep), Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek), Don Meredith (Police Story), Shelley Smith (Simon & Simon), Christina Hart (Helter Skelter, Mean Dog Blues)
SYNOPSIS: A freak accident at a power station causes all the electricity in a large metropolitan city to be cut off just as night falls. We see all the various residents struggling with the blackout disaster. Trying to fix the problem we have an engineer (DiCenzo), politicians (Culp, Brown, Burr) and the police (Cassidy, Davis). Meanwhile citizens like Linda Purl, Vic Tayback and Gary Frank try to stay alive and not get robbed or raped. The plot bounces back and forth between all the players as they deal with pressure from the mayor, technical problems, looters, and being stuck in an elevator. The scenes with mobs of people ransacking stores and running through the streets are surprisingly realistic. An entertaining made-for-TV thriller that's packed with many familiar faces from the late 70's / early 80's. Plus you get to see Jonathan Frakes without his usual facial hair and David Cassidy with a mustache.
Fullscreen / Color
Region Free / Code Free DVD-R
DIRECTOR: Harry Falk (Death Squad, High Desert Kill)
STARS: Georg Stanford Brown (Dayton's Devils, Stir Crazy), Raymond Burr (Ironside, Amazing World of Physic Phenomena) , David Cassidy (The Spirit of '76), Robert Culp (Hickey and Boggs), Clifton Davis (Superdome), George DiCenzo (Helter Skelter), Gary Frank (Enemy Territory), Linda Purl (Visiting Hours), Vic Tayback (Blood and Lace), Dick Anthony Williams (The Deep), Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek), Don Meredith (Police Story), Shelley Smith (Simon & Simon), Christina Hart (Helter Skelter, Mean Dog Blues)
SYNOPSIS: A freak accident at a power station causes all the electricity in a large metropolitan city to be cut off just as night falls. We see all the various residents struggling with the blackout disaster. Trying to fix the problem we have an engineer (DiCenzo), politicians (Culp, Brown, Burr) and the police (Cassidy, Davis). Meanwhile citizens like Linda Purl, Vic Tayback and Gary Frank try to stay alive and not get robbed or raped. The plot bounces back and forth between all the players as they deal with pressure from the mayor, technical problems, looters, and being stuck in an elevator. The scenes with mobs of people ransacking stores and running through the streets are surprisingly realistic. An entertaining made-for-TV thriller that's packed with many familiar faces from the late 70's / early 80's. Plus you get to see Jonathan Frakes without his usual facial hair and David Cassidy with a mustache.
Fullscreen / Color
Region Free / Code Free DVD-R