Panic in the City

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

External links

1968 films

1960s thriller films

American thriller films

Films about nuclear war and weapons

United Pictures Corporation

Films scored by Paul Dunlap

American neo-noir films

Films set in Los Angeles

Films shot in Los Angeles

Films critical of communism

Cold War films

Films about World War III

Films directed by Eddie Davis

1960s English-language films

1960s American films