The Towering Inferno (Special Edition)
by Irwin Allen, John Guillermin
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Actor: Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William HoldenDirector: Irwin Allen, John Guillermin
Brand: MCQUEEN,STEVE
Producer: Irwin Allen
Producer: Sidney Marshall
Writer: Frank M. Robinson
Writer: Richard Martin Stern
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
Writer: Thomas N. Scortia
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 165 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-05-09
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Towering Inferno (Special Edition)
Movie Review: Reminder of a classic disaster.
Summary: 5 Stars
This film was the first in a trilogy of films that I recently acquired for nostalgia purposes when they were released in the 1970's.
The other two were Earthquake and Poseidon Adventure and I always felt that the Towering Inferno was unique in its talent and direction.
Summary of The Towering Inferno (Special Edition)
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 electrical flare-up. Within minutes the gala event turns into a hellish inferno, as a raging fire trapsDisaster movies used to work because there was little certainty as to who would survive. Not so in this film, really an amalgam of two original stories, about a group of well-to-do celebrants at the top floor of a skyscraper. Cheapo electrical wiring and bad construction management cause an enormous blaze at the lower floors, steadily rising to consume the revelers. Newman's an architect, McQueen a firefighter, and Fred Astaire a kind old gentleman, for which he was Oscar-nominated. O.J. Simpson plays a security guard who rescues a cat. Now that's a disaster. --Keith Simanton
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