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The Towering Inferno

1974

John Guillermin, Irwin Allen

Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway ...

6.8

17,069

Action. Drama 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 been followed and that the building continues to develope short circuits. When the fire begins Michael O'Halleran is the chief on duty as a series of daring rescues punctuate the terror of a building too tall to have a fire successfully fought from the ground burns. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"By far the best of the mid-1970s wave of disaster films (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Andrew Collins Empire	"A rare 70s film that doesn't look like a TV movie (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"'The Towering Inferno' has an advantage over most movies of this sort in that it has a really classy cast (...) The visual spectacle is first rate"	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"The Towering Inferno is one of the greatest disaster pictures made"	POS

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