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Earthquake is a 1974 American disaster film that achieved huge box-office success, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations. The plot concerns the struggle for survival after a catastrophic earthquake destroys most of the city of Los Angeles, California.
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Cast
Charlton Heston, Donald Moffat, George Kennedy, John Randolph, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Richard Roundtree, Arthur Tovey, Geneviève Bujold, Marjoe Gortner, Barry Sullivan, Walter Matthau, Ava Gardner, Lloyd Nolan, Kip Niven, Lorne Greene, Victoria Principal, Monica Lewis, Gabriel Dell, Lloyd Gough, Tiger Williams
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Reviews
80
Mark Robson's Earthquake is an excellent dramatic exploitation extravaganza, combining brilliant special effects with a multi-character plot line which is surprisingly above average for this type film. Large cast is headed by Charlton Heston, who comes off better than usual because he is not Superman, instead just one of the gang.
70
For those who have a soft spot for calamity pictures, there's a sense of ritual cleansing afterward. And for some reason, it also made me hungry.
60
The New Yorker
The picture is swill, but it isn't a cheat; it's an entertaining marathon of Grade-A destruction effects, with B-picture stock characters spinning through it.
60
Village Voice
Halfway between a movie and a carnival huckster's gimmick, with the gimmick a great deal less interesting than the movie itself. [23 Dec 1974, p.89]
50
Flat, generally laughable hokum, and the film ends up nowhere near as interesting a comment on the psychological aspects of disaster as Juggernaut.
