The Towering Inferno

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Year:	1974
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Action, Drama, Thriller
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	6.9 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	27 Have Seen, 1 Wishlist


Director	John Guillermin
Selected Cast	Steve McQueen as Chief Mike O'Hallorhan
	Paul Newman as Doug Roberts
	William Holden as Jim Duncan
	Faye Dunaway as Susan Franklin
	Fred Astaire as Harlee Claiborne
	Susan Blakely as Patty
	Richard Chamberlain as Simmons
	Jennifer Jones as Lisolette
	O.J. Simpson as Jernigan
	Robert Vaughn as Senator Parker
	Robert Wagner as Bigelow
Producer	Irwin Allen
Writer	Richard Martin Stern
	Thomas N. Scortia
	Frank M. Robinson
Soundtrack	John Williams [Composer]

On DVD & Blu-ray World

Blu-ray

The Towering Inferno - Warner Bros. - UK (2009)

DVD

The Towering Inferno - 20th Century Fox - USA (2006)

VHS

The Towering Inferno - 20th Century Fox - Canada (1998)

VHS

The Towering Inferno - Scan Video - Finland (1982)

DVD

The Towering Inferno - Warner Home Video - Australia (2000)

DVD

La Tour Infernale - Warner Home Video - France (2003)

DVD

A Torre Do Inferno - ZON Lusomundo - Portugal (2005)

DVD

La Collection Steve McQueen - Warner Home Video - France (2005)

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MR B PAGE ● 18th Apr 2024		R.I.P. O.J. Simpson who plays Jernigan in the 1974 film.



YankeeDisc SUBS 9th Jun 2016		As I write, this 1974 movie is showing (yet again) in UK on freeview Channel 15 - Film 4 today, 1515-1825hrs, including copious adverts. After watching the trailer, it reminds me of when this film was first shown on BBC 1 at least 25 years ago. I had seen the movie at a cinema when first released, and of course it hit big at the box office, and was generally enjoyable hokum......I mean you know Steve McQueen is gonna save somebody, anybody, you get the picture..... So, the BBC ran a trail for an upcoming transmission of the film, which was hilarious, based on the 2:14 long video trailer posted on this page, with suitable input by Newman, McQueen, and Wagner..... Newman - "We got a fire here......!!" RJ - "I'll be back, with the whole Fire Department....!!" McQueen - "It's a fire, Mister, and all fires are bad.....!!" A BBC voice over artist made the whole thing appealing, and you wouldn't want to miss it, so under the US soundtrack voice and action clips their playing clips from Fire Brigade, by The Move..... .....you could not make it up...... The BBC ran the trail a few times, and I eventually video taped it, so I must have it somewhere, and when I find it I'll have to post it on youtube, although maybe someone already has.



Magic Marmalade 9th Jan 2016



Record Collector 2nd Sep 2015		It's just a morning aft oops sorry wrong movie



zabadak 22nd Jun 2015		Great ensemble movie! Much lauded at the time, it has become more (in)famous in recent years for the dispute between McQueen and Newman over who would get top billing, the number of lines, screentime etc. :happy:

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