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The Towering Inferno [1975]
starring: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire
directed by: Irwin Allen, John Guillermin

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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5014786125326
Format: HiFi Sound, PAL
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: June 15, 1998
Running Time: 158 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 1974
Sales Rank: 6744

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
Disaster movies used to work because there was little certainty as to who would survive. Not so in this film, really an amalgam of two original stories, about a group of well-to-do celebrants at the top floor of a skyscraper. Cheapo electrical wiring and bad construction management cause an enormous blaze at the lower floors, steadily rising to consume the revellers. Newman's an architect, McQueen a firefighter and Fred Astaire a kind old gentleman, for which he was Oscar-nominated. OJ Simpson plays a security guard who rescues a cat. Now that's a disaster. -- Keith Simanton, Amazon.com

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- It's out of control and it's coming your way!!
Due to an alleged stupid dispute between Warners and 20th Century Fox over who owns the UK rights to the Towering Inferno this magnificent 2 disc set is unavaible in the UK except on Region 1 import. But it is well worth the effort to get hold of one.
Beautifully packaged, with the main feature remastered and a host of fascinating extras, far to many to go into detail about on disc 2, plus a set of lobby cards, this is the ultimate Towering Inferno set and one that every fan of this classic disaster movie should own.

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- Stellar Cast as tall as the building itself
What a movie! it has an all star cast including Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden and many more.

The basis for this movie is the opening of the worlds tallest building, but things aren't as perfect as they seem as architect Paul Newman discovers inadequate electrical wiring in the building which could result in dangerous concequences. He then reports this to the buildings owner James Duncan but he doesn't think that it is a problem and still decides to go on with the opening ceremony which puts 300 peoples lives in the balance while trapped on the top of the 138 storey skyscraper when the building goes on fire due to the poor wiring, this results in unpredictable explosions and fires breaking out everywhere in the building. ... Read More:

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- the best disaster movie ever made.
I have bought several copies of The Towering Inferno hoping to get some special features, but unfortunately I was unsuccessful until I bought this copy. This is a 2 disc special edition with featurettes, 2 trailers, cast interviews, deleted scenes, photo gallery, interactive menu, and improved stereo sound for best effect of the movie, what more could you ask for. This edition is definately worth investing in especially if you are a fan of this movie.

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- The classic disaster movie
Although fans of the original Poseidon Adventure might have something to say about that. Frankly, I love them both.

Little needs to be said about The Towering Inferno. Skyscraper catches fire due to corner cutting in the construction. Lots of people try to get out. The end. It's a mini adventure.

I'm being flippant about a pretty grim film here. With my serious hat on, I will now state that the acting is uniformly superb; it's impossible to complain, and this is really the most important thing. The script, such as it is, works well, and the effects are, for their time, superb. Direction is well paced, and cleanly and imaginatively shot. A good effort all round. The sound could do with a little work though -the dialoge can ... Read More:

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- The original Die Hard in a great 2-disc NTSC special edition
The Towering Inferno is still the daddy of all the 70s disaster movies, even if time has taken the edge off some of the special effects and rendered the fashions and décor more frightening than the pyrotechnics. It's also the blueprint for Die Hard, which borrows many of its key setpieces almost verbatim - the trapped party guests, the hero crawling around at the top of a seemingly endless lift shaft, the chopper exploding on the roof, the explosion that unleashes a deluge on the building - while scaling down the all-star cast and adding gunplay to the mix. As a rule in the genre, movie stars survive, TV stars die, but it's not ironclad here, although the probability of death does seem directly correlated to the amount of screen time a character gets. ... Read More:

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