Console best movie i've ever seen.

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

blanche-2 "City of Fear" is a 1959 B movie starring Vince Edwards, Patricia Blair, and Lyle Talbot. Directed by Irving Lerner.Vince Edwards is the imaginatively named Vince, a prison escapee who believes he's carrying a lot of heroin in a cannister. He plans to sell it and then take off with his girlfriend (Blair). There are a few people in his way, but in his drive from the person, he's able to dispatch them. One of them is his fellow escapee, who becomes very sick and dies.Vince is actually carrying a lethal cannister of cobalt-6, and it's making him ill, though he persists with his plans. Meanwhile, city officials know what he has and are desperate to find him.This script has been made I don't know how many times, most notably Panic in the Streets (1950). It's fairly well executed here by Lerner's touches, one where Vince drives away from a gas station and the cannister has rolled out of his car, and another where he's trying to open it, to no avail.I never considered the brooding Vince Edwards to be much of an actor. He's Ben Casey gone rogue here. Patricia Blair is a knockout. The actress Kathie Browne has a nice cameo - she later appeared in many television shows and was married to Darren McGavin. Finally, one of the great character actors, Lyle Talbot, enjoyed a 56-year career before dying at the age of 94. At the time of his death, he was working on his biography. A shame he didn't finish it - it would have been a great read.

Marc Lamphier A completely awful film, from the wooden acting of the square-jawed, no-nonsense fat boys who are in search if the escapee, to the usual Hollywood plot device of not informing the public because "there will be mad panic!" (boy, has that one been milked over the years), to radioactivity that somehow leaves a contamination footprint behind even when the container was not opened. A lot of shots of police cars driving in formation, which I guess gives the appearance of men in action. But the low budget of this film meant a lot of actual street scenes of 1950s Hollywood, the cars, the stores, the people -- it is a nice time slip back a few decades, and fun to watch if for nothing else than the background.

kennethfrankel Cobalt-60 is not explosive and would not destroy a city. The entire city is a risk in the movie, but it was OK for convicts to be near it. It goes through beta decay (emits electrons) and then turns into Nickel, and emits 2 gamma rays (just high energy photons). So what I don't understand is what causes the residual radiation on cars, rooms, and everything else the canister was near? Once the canister is taken out of a room, the room should be safe. It is possible that the radiation makes other atoms change and become radioactive, but I am not aware of the amount of that effect. And then there was the expert, who used his coat to open the car door and the hood. Come on - wouldn't the guy have protective gear? How about an old rag? Something that seems to have escaped the police is that they could have checked for radiation on the officers that manned the roadblocks (assuming the premise that everything got contaminated for a long time). They were searching the cars very well, and touching everything. That would have given clues as to the route the convict was taking. Today, that all seems silly. The roadblock people and investigators would be all in spacesuits and have to go through 30 minute showers to try to decontaminate themselves.

clachman I once saw City of Fear on the Late,Late Show when I was a kid and I think the experience has influenced my subsequent love of film noir. I have been trying to find this one but it doesn't exist on video. Strangely enough, I remember it vividly, so not seeing it doesn't really matter. Edwards is a nasty piece of work. He and a pal break out of prison after stealing what they think is a canister of pharmaceutical grade cocaine from the prison hospital. What they don't know is it's a canister of Cobalt 60, a highly dangerous radioactive substance. Of course it is harmless in it's lead-lined case, but they stole it so they can sell "the coke" once they get to L.A. Things go bad from the very beginning. Edwards and his partner have a falling out over the "drugs" and Edwards brutally murders him so he can keep the stuff for himself. Once Edwards gets to L.A. he tries to open the case and, of course, all hell breaks loose ... literally. If there was ever a tough-as-nails movie, this is it. Too bad it can't be seen today, it would put some of the so-called classic film noir films to shame.