The Towering Inferno (Blu-ray) PG
The world’s tallest building is on fire. You are there on the 135th floor . . . no way down . . . no way out.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 14, 2009
- Originally Released: 1974
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Fred Astaire, Jennifer Jones, Faye Dunaway, Robert Vaughn, William Holden & O.J. Simpson | |
| Performer: | Susan Blakely, Sheila Allen, Susan Flannery, Ernie F. Orsatti, Felton Perry, Norman Burton, Jack Collins, Dabney Coleman, Don Gordon & Mike Lookinland | |
| Directed by | Irwin Allen & John Guillermin | |
| Edited by | Harold F. Kress & Carl Kress | |
| Composition by | John Williams | |
| Art Direction by | Ward Preston | |
| Produced by | Irwin Allen & Stirling Silliphant | |
| Director of Photography: | Fred J. Koenekamp & Joseph F. Biroc |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1974 -
Best Cinematography: Fred Koenekamp & Joseph Biroc
Academy Awards 1974 -
Best Film Editing: Harold F. Kress & Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1974 -
Best Original Song: Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn
Entertainment Reviews:
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...One of the best movies of its type ever made...
USA Today
Rating: 3.5/5 --
You may not come out of the theater with any important ideas about American architecture or enterprise, but you will have had a vivid, completely safe nightmare.
New York Times
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.
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New Yorker
Rating: B- --
Featuring an all-star cast (Paul Newman, Steve McQueen), the movie delivers the goods of a well-crafted disaster flick, but strangely, it was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
The Towering Inferno is one of the greatest disaster pictures made, a personal and professional triumph for producer Irwin Allen.
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Variety
An absolutely spectacular cast, and a top-notch technical team, are the pillars on which 'The Towering Inferno' is based, a film built with the precision of an architect. [Full Review in Spanish]
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Espinof
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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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
A horrible fire engulfs the world's largest skyscraper trapping a group of people on the top floor. Academy Award Nominations: 8, including Best Picture. Academy Awards: 3, Best Cinematography, Best Song ("We May Never Love Like This Again"), Best Editing.
Product Description:
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 traps society's most prominent citizens on the top floor. Winner of three Academy Awards, this spectacular suspense thriller features dazzling special effects and a star studded cast including Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden and Faye Dunaway.
Keywords:
Action
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Adventure
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Disaster
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Suspense
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Thriller
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All-Star
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Recommended
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Blockbuster
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Theatrical Release
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Essential Cinema
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- UPC: 024543600008
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