The Towering Inferno

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Call Number: Blu-ray Action Towering
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Originally released as a motion picture in 1974.
Based on the novels "The tower" by Richard Martin Stern and "The glass inferno" by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson.
Special features: Audio commentary by film historian F.X. Feeney; sceen-specific commentary by Mike Vézina, special effects director on X-Men: the last stand, and Branko Racki, stunt coordinator: Montreal on The day after tomorrow; over 30 extended/deleted scenes; "Inside the Tower: we remember" featurette; "Innovating Tower: the SPFX of an Inferno" featurette; "The art of Towering" featurette; "Irwin Allen: the great producer" featurette; "Directing the inferno" featurette; "Putting out fire" featurette; "Running on fire" featurette; "Still the world's tallest building" featurette; "The writer: Stirling Silliphant" featurette; AMC backstory: The towering inferno; storyboard-to-film commparisons; NATO presentation reel; Original "Making of" featurettes; 1977 Irwin Allen interview; original teaser, trailer and The Poseidon adventure trailer; 3 interactive articles from American Cinematographer; still galleries (shot compositions, publicity, behind-the-scenes, conceptual sketches, costumes).
Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain, Jennifer Jones, O.J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner.
In the heart of San Francisco, the finishing touches have just been made to the Glass Tower, a 138-story skyscraper. A huge celebratory gala, complete with VIP guests, has been planned to celebrate the dedication of what has been promoted as the world's tallest building. But Doug Roberts, the building's architect, suspects all is not right with the building. He discovers that the contractors have used shoddy wiring, not the heavy-duty wiring he had specified. During the height of the celebratory extravaganza, the overworked wiring develops short circuits and it isn't long before the Glass Tower becomes a huge towering inferno. Now the nearly 300 guests become trapped on the building's 135th floor, where the party it taking place. Fire Chief Michael O'Hallorhan immediately devises a daring plan to rescue the trapped guests, but his efforts quickly become a battle against time and the panicked guests.
Blu-ray disc, region A, widescreen (2.35:1); Dolby DTS-HD Master 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 4.0 surround, Dolby Digital surround, Dolby Digital mono., AVC @ 24 MBPS, 50-GB, dual-layer, 1080p High Definition.
This Blu-ray disc will not play in standard DVD players.
Contents: Tower. -- Glass inferno.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Awesome submitted by mysterio on August 6, 2011, 1:33pm Awesome

The Towering Inferno - Blu-ray submitted by Fevvers - STAR473 on July 8, 2016, 5:22pm It's a classic urban disaster movie, with some great cinematography. The performances range from great to stilted to cheesy - as does the film itself. It didn't hold up very well for me on a rewatch, but I still watched it all because of Richard Chamberlain and Faye Dunaway (sorry, Paul Newman and Steve McQueen!).

pathetic flick, low-budget props, the skyscraper looks like it's made of waffles. submitted by Tassos on November 13, 2021, 5:07pm Really pathetic in every sense, so no surprise the resident Siskel with the one-word vocabulary calls it "awesome". Yeah, awsome. That's the ticket! Are you kidding me, genius, or are you 3 years old or brain-dead regardless of age?