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.

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 ...

Officials don’t yet know the initial cause of the fires that began ripping through Los Angeles on January 7 — but we do know ...

Inferno is further proof of the global dumbing ... He adds: “Many people across the country have for too long supported the idea of movies as a popular entertainment rather than an art and ...

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.

The Towering Inferno, poster, US advance poster art ... LOS ANGELES - DECEMBER 20: The movie "The Godfather: Part II", directed by Francis Ford Coppola, ... [+] based on the novel 'The Godfather ...

A series of movies based off of the erotic romance novel Gabriel's Inferno written by an anonymous author under the pen name Sylvain Reynard. The original film was cut into three parts ...

Melding the seemingly disparate traditions of apocalyptic live-action graphic novel and charming Victoria-era toy theater, Dante's Inferno is a subversive, darkly satirical update of the original ...