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Release Date: 1974

Cast: Paul Newman, Felton Perry, Robert Vaughn, Jennifer Jones, Dabney Coleman, Gregory Sierra, Robert Wagner, Jack Collins, Richard Chamberlain, Susan Blakely, Scott Newman, O. J. Simpson ...MORE

Cast: Paul Newman, Felton Perry, Robert Vaughn, Jennifer Jones, Dabney Coleman, Gregory Sierra, Robert Wagner, Jack Collins, Richard Chamberlain, Susan Blakely, Scott Newman, O. J. Simpson, Fred Astaire, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Sheila Allen, Norman Burton, Susan Flannery ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Action/Adventure, Doomsday Film, Ensemble Film, Action, Disaster

The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American action disaster film produced by Irwin Allen featuring an all-star cast led by Steve McQueen and Paul Newman. A co-production between Twentieth Century-Fox and Warner Bros. (this was the first film to be a joint venture from two major Hollywood studios), it was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from a pair of novels, The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson, and was directed by John Guillermin, with Allen himself directing the action sequences. The film was a critical success, earning an Academy... MORE

The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American action disaster film produced by Irwin Allen featuring an all-star cast led by Steve McQueen and Paul Newman. A co-production between Twentieth Century-Fox and Warner Bros. (this was the first film to be a joint venture from two major Hollywood studios), it was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from a pair of novels, The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson, and was directed by John Guillermin, with Allen himself directing the action sequences. The film was a critical success, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture and was the highest grossing film released in 1974. The film also features Jennifer Jones's final screen appearance. Architect Doug Roberts returns to San Francisco for the dedication of the Glass Tower, which he designed for owner Jim Duncan. At 138 stories (1,800 ft), it is the world's tallest building. During a routine systems check before the ceremonies, an electrical short in the upper floors starts a small fire in a storage room on the 81st floor which goes undetected. Roberts confronts the building's electrical engineer, Duncan's son-in-law Roger Simmons, LESS