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The Towering Inferno
Directed by
John Guillermin
PG
1974
2h 45m
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7.0
69%
72%
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At the opening party of a colossal San Francisco skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out due to careless building practices by the contractor, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
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Cast of The Towering Inferno
Steve McQueen
Chief O'Hallorhan
Paul Newman
Doug Roberts
William Holden
Jim Duncan
Faye Dunaway
Susan
Fred Astaire
Harlee Claiborne
Susan Blakely
Patty
Richard Chamberlain
Simmons
Jennifer Jones
Lisolette
O. J. Simpson
Jernigan
Robert Vaughn
Senator Parker
Robert Wagner
Bigelow
Susan Flannery
Lorrie
Sheila Allen
Paula Ramsay
Norman Burton
Giddings
Jack Collins
Mayor Ramsay
Don Gordon
Kappy
Felton Perry
Scott
Gregory Sierra
Carlos
Ernie F. Orsatti
Mark Powers
Dabney Coleman
Deputy Chief #1
The Towering Inferno Ratings & Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Charles Champlin
$14 million worth of Holy Cow! Spend more -- efficiently -- and you get more. More stars, more effects, more scale, more suspense, more crises, more impact, more of that feeling the foyer that you have your ticket's worth and then some.
Arizona Republic
Phil Strassberg
It is an almost-perfect meshing by ingenious, productive technicians and a finely-attuned acting brigade of a complicated production into a magnificent "epic" in the best C.B. DeMille tradition.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Elston Brooks
We finally come to the ultimate disaster picture of them all. And, in a word, the best. The Towering Inferno... is not only the best disaster picture crashing around the crowded circuit, but it is also one of the year's best films.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
It's a technical achievement more concerned with special effects than with people. That's why our attitude towards the film's cardboard characters is: let 'em burn.
San Francisco Chronicle
Stephen Farber
Despite the pretense of social criticism, this is a profoundly reactionary movie, in its primitive morality, and in its fundamental assumptions about men and women.
New York Daily News
Ann Guarino
One thing is for sure, the film is a fine tribute to fire fighters and repeatedly points up the problems in fighting a fire in tall buildings.
Houston Chronicle
Jeff Millar
If I'm nice to The Towering Inferno, if I say it's probably the best of the disaster pictures, that it delivers in value received the price of admission and probably a little more, do you think the disaster picture would go away happy? And stay away?
Boston Globe
Kevin Kelly
The Towering Inferno is a visceral experience, and a helluva good argument for living close to the ground, in an asbestos pulp tent.
Orlando Sentinel
Dean Johnson
You'll find yourself looking around for the movie theater's fire exits just in case.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Pollack
With 1974 the year of the uncommon disaster, The Towering Inferno certainly is the tallest, and perhaps even more ambitious than Earthquake.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Bob Lundegaard
The Towering Inferno, a three-hour saga about a fire in the world's tallest building, left me limp with exhaustion. In fact they could have easily put the fire out by wringing my palms.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Farnum Gray
If pyromania is your hangup or you hero-worship firemen, then The Towering Inferno is your movie. Otherwise, despite its top-heavy cast of superstars and its $14-million budget, it is not an attractive way to spend an evening at a cost of $3 a head.
Newsday
Joseph Gelmis
If you discount the performances as, predictably, mere muscular melodrama, or token sentiment, then you can ease into what The Towering Inferno is really about -- two blue-eyed superstuds dangling from helicopters.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Perry Stewart
"The" disaster movie in a season of disaster movies. If Airport 1975 was a dull mistake and Earthquake was ambitious mediocrity, then "Inferno" definitely is the hottest number of that trio.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Desmond Ryan
The film, in short, is convincing, but the actors aren't and that makes watching them burn to death a rather ghoulish experience.
Detroit Free Press
Susan Stark
Audiences will applaud both stars at several points in the movie; they are just that marvelous and their no-nonsense heroics are just that welcome on today's badly tarnished silver screen.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Will Jones
For what it's worth, I squirmed more in The Towering Inferno than in Earthquake. More, maybe, than in any film since The Exorcist, although for different reasons.
AV Club
Keith Phipps
As the bland, star-laden drama gets swallowed by fiery special-effects setpieces, it feels like one type of big-budget mediocrity giving way to the next.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
The movie doesn't stick together in one's head; this thing is like some junky fairground show -- a chamber of horrors with skeletons that jump up.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
Irwin Allen, the Busby Berkeley of natural disasters and other people's troubles, teams up with John Guillermin, a competent if undistinguished action director.
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