The movie opens as architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) returns from his vacation just in time for the dedication party for his brand new creation, the Glass Tower in San Franscisco – the world’s highest building with its 138 floors. The film was eventually nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning three. Sterling Silliphant (Academy Award winner for his screenplay to In the Heat of the Night) wrote the script as an adaptation of not one but two novels: The Tower by Richard Martin Stern, and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N Scortia and Frank M Robinson. Producer Irwin Allen (who also made The Poseidon Adventure and would keep making disaster epics with less well-regarded films like The Swarm and Beyond the Poseidon Adventure) shared directorial duties with John Guillermin (who, sadly, went on to direct the execrable 1976 version of King Kong). Certainly, The Towering Inferno is the finest example of the 70’s style of disaster cinema: big all-star cast, multiple storylines, a spectacular central event, and an all-around massive production ( Inferno was at the time the biggest film produced on the 20th Century Fox lot by virtue of its 57 sets and four camera crews.) So here it is, the film that is arguably the major classic of the disaster movie genre. Starring: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Richard Chamberlain, Susan Blakely, Fred Astaire, O.J.
Directed by: John Guillermin & Irwin Allen
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