Attachment 229390 THE TOWERING INFERNO (1974)
Right up there with my favourite all time movies. I saw the film on release with my parents while on holiday and as such carries a lot of nostalgia with it as well.
For me, the best of the all star disaster movies of the 1970's and this is what big screen adventure and spectacle are all about.
Running for 2 hours and 45 mins, the movie had an intermission at the part Where the stairway explodes and Newman has to get the kids down the mangled stairs. The cinema was quite warm as well and that added to the atmosphere. When the movie was over, I remember my mum being a bit frightened about going back to our holiday flat in case it never had the right fire safety measures.
20th Century Fox and Warner Bros teamed up to produce the movie as both company's were going to adapt novels about a fire in a huge skyscraper.
Also for me, the poster features one of the best artworks ever on a movie poster.
** Please, never ever watch this movie on the likes of channel 5 etc..
The film is cut to shreds. I mean really butchered! And never ever in it's correct aspect ratio.