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Perhaps the smartest thing that Allen did in the preproduction of this movie is that he convinced 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. Pictures to team up for The Towering Inferno. Each studio had ...

Throughout the 1970s, audiences couldn't get enough of disaster movies. The decade began with the all-star blockbuster bomb-on-a-plane thrill ride Airport, based on Arthur Hailey's best-seller.

Or if not directly caused, then aided and abetted. The culmination — the ultimate movie of its kind — was "The Towering Inferno," which opened 50 years ago this month, on Dec. 14, 1974.

When it comes to playing hide and seek in Pontypandy Norman really is the best However when he decides that he is going to hide at the top of the fire station training tower he doesn t realise ...

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 ...

While filmmakers occasionally put some thought and effort into these movies (e.g., "Airport," "The Towering Inferno," and "Titanic"), they usually serve up the destruction with extra cheese.

The Towering Inferno takes the better part of an hour before the plot literally heats up, but the disaster was the prime attraction for this movie. People came to the theater to watch the building ...