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.

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"Fire, flood or any other act of God." So, anyway, it says on the insurance policy. But the crises in 1970s disaster movies were almost always caused by Man. Or if not directly caused, then aided ...

When selfish and arrogant millionaire Donald Carson fractures his leg during a desert vacation, his wife, Geraldine, leaves with their friend Joseph Duncan to supposedly get help. However, the two ...

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Convicted cop killer Carl "Luke" Lucas, a.k.a. Frankenstein, is a superstar driver in the brutal prison yard demolition derby known as the Death Race. Only one victory away from winning freedom ...