The Towering Inferno
United States
1974
165 Min
Color
2.21:1
English
Synopsis
Doug Roberts, Architect, returns from a long vacation to find work nearly completed on his skyscraper. He goes to the party that night concerned he’s found that his wiring specifications have not been followed and that the building continues to develope short circuits. When the fire begins Michael O’Halleran is the chief on duty as a series of daring rescues punctuate the terror of a building too tall to have a fire successfully fought from the ground burns. —IMDb
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Jaspar Lamar Crabb
24Mar12
yes...it's lousy but also extremely entertaining. Awkward plot-lines, oddball casting (what IS OJ Simpson doing in the same movie as Fred Astaire?)
Dany Salvatierra
24Oct11
The scene when the elevator crosses the sky while being tied to the chopper is probably the most infamous/effective/awesome moment in cinema history.
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Au feu, les pompiers...
By Benoît on November 10, 2011
Assez convaincu par ce film catastrophe possédant beaucoup de qualités et quelques défauts quand même. On trouve quand même une réalisation de Guillermin hyper bien soignée, aidé pour le coup par Irwin… read review
Disasters don't get better
By Conner Rainwater on June 17, 2010
Far and away, this is the greatest disaster movie ever made. It has everything that you could possibly want without all the cheese and sappiness. All the terror is real, as are the relationships and… read review
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By THomasMalcolmCallahan on October 1, 2009
The Towering Inferno really feasts on the same sort of mundane fears as the Poseidon Adventure, or Airport ’77 – taking simple problems such as being stuck in an elevator to their furthest melodramatic… read review
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