Storyline
At the opening party of a colossal - but poorly constructed - office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Directors
Cast
Robert Wagner, George Wallace, Paul Newman, William Bassett, Felton Perry, Norman Burton, O.J. Simpson, Ernie F. Orsatti, Robert Vaughn, Sheila Allen, Faye Dunaway, Mike Lookinland, Dabney Coleman, Don Gordon, Erik L. Nelson, Norman Grabowski, Richard Chamberlain, Steve McQueen, Fred Astaire, Gregory Sierra, Elizabeth Rogers, John Crawford, Susan Blakely, William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Susan Flannery, Jack Collins, Ann Leicester, Ross Elliott, Olan Soule, Carlena Gower, Carol McEvoy, Scott Newman, Paul Comi, Patrick Culliton, Art Balinger, Norman Hicks, Thomas Karnahan
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Reviews
90
The Towering Inferno is one of the greatest disaster pictures made, a personal and professional triumph for producer Irwin Allen.
83
The fun of watching The Towering Inferno is in figuring out which old star Allen is going to indiscriminately kill off, as well as watching ultramodern décor go up in flames while a bunch of stubborn egotists refuse to listen to reasonable men.
80
Empire
Much more than a way to pass a rainy bank holiday afternoon, this is rocking good superleague disaster adventure.
75
By far the best of the mid-1970s wave of disaster films.
75
Slant Magazine
In nearly every reasonable sense it’s the far more accomplished of the two famed Allen disaster epics.
