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The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American disaster film directed by John Guillermin and produced by Irwin Allen, [5] featuring an ensemble cast led by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. [6] [7] [8] [9] It was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and ...
The Towering Inferno: Directed by John Guillermin. With Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway. At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
A dedication ceremony at the world's tallest skyscraper turns into a high-rise catastrophe when a defective wire in its systems-control panel causes an elect...
Rather than being a reflection on the true terror of a fire of this scale, The Towering Inferno is a gloriously constructed and tremendously entertaining film, with heroes to root for and...
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“The Towering Inferno” is a brawny blockbuster of a movie, by far the best of the mid-1970s wave of disaster films. It’s three hours long, it cost something like $13 million to make which was a lot at the time and it’s an example of Hollywood commercial moviemaking at its finest.
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RELEASED IN 1974 and directed by John Guillermin, "The Towering Inferno" details events in San Francisco when the world's tallest building, The Glass Tower (138 stories), catches aflame due to an electrical short and threatens hundreds of lives during the grand dedication ceremony.
Summaries. At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it. Doug Roberts, architect, returns from a long vacation to find work nearly completed on his skyscraper.
During the grand opening of a sky-high marvel, disaster strikes as a fire engulfs the poorly designed structure. Trapped within, guests and firefighters must unite against the raging inferno to survive the ultimate test of courage and resilience.
Paul Newman and Steve McQueen headline an all-star cast in this blockbuster disaster epic as, 135 floors below the glittering inaugural gala dedicating the world's tallest skyscraper, an electrical fire ignites a conflagration that traps hundreds of party-goers in a Towering Inferno.
