“The Towering Inferno” is an action thriller disaster movie, screenplay by Stirling Silliphant, from the Novel by Richard Martin Stern, Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson, and Directed by John Guillermin.
The focal point of the movie is a
colossal skyscraper, designed by Architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman), which is
nearing completion when he returns from a long vacation, but ahead of the
“grand opening” party he discovers that his wiring specifications have not been
followed and as a result the building has been experiencing an increasing
number of electrical glitches.
He raises his concerns with his
father in law, Jim Duncan (William Holden) and Project Manager Simmons (Richard
Chamberlain) but they are brushed aside.
Suffice is to say that during the
party a fire breaks out and quickly spreads, which
threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
So Michael O'Halleran (Steve
McQueen), who 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.
It’s a tense and thrilling tale with
an amazing cast assembled by producer Irwin Allen, who succeed in getting
McQueen and Newman to co-star, he also signed Faye Dunaway to play Newman's
love interest and cast Fred Astaire, against type as a con-man, but even more
astonishing than that, he lured reclusive and legendary film star Jennifer Jones
out of retirement for the sympathetic role of Lisolette Mueller.
He also secured other notables which
included Robert Wagner, Susan Blakely, Susan Flannery, Sheila Allen, Robert
Vaughn, O.J. Simpson and Dabney Coleman.
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