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Towering Inferno, The - Special Edition (1974)


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Four out of Five

Movie

Rating: PG
Length: 165 minutes

Video

Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic)

Audio

ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 4.0
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround
SPANISH: Dolby Digital Mono

Captions

English, Spanish

Purchase

Plot

Pros

Cons

Extras

  • Commentaries by F.X. Feeney (Film Historian) and scene-specific commentary by Mike Venzina (Special Effects Director on X-Men 3) and Branko Racki (Stunt Coordinator on The Day After Tomorrow)
  • 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 Worlds Tallest Building Featurette
  • The Heart of Disaster: Stirling Silliphant Featurette
  • AMC Backstory: The Towering Inferno
  • Over 30 Extended/Deleted Scenes
  • Storyboard-To-Film Comparisons
  • NATO Presentation Reel
  • 3 Interactive Articles From American Cinematographer
  • Original "Making-Of" Featurettes
  • 1977 Irwin Allen Interview
  • Still Photo Galleries (Shot Compositions, Publicity, Behind The Scenes, Conceptual Sketches, Costumes)
  • Original Teaser, Trailer, and More!

Recommendation

Director

John Guillermin   [The Blue Max, The Bridge at Remagen]
Irwin Allen

Actors

Sheila Allen - Mrs. Paula Ramsay
[The Poseidon Adventure]
Fred Astaire - Harlee Claiborne
Susan Blakely - Patty Simmons
Norman Burton - Will Giddings
[The Planet of the Apes (1968)]
Richard Chamberlain - Roger Simmons
[Shogun]
Jack Collins - Mayor Robert Ramsey
Faye Dunaway - Susan Franklin
[3 Days of the Condor, Bonnie and Clyde, The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Network]
William Holden - James Duncan
[Born Yesterday, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Damien: Omen II, Network, Stalag 17, Sunset Boulevard, The Wild Bunch]
Jennifer Jones - Lisolette Mueller
Steve McQueen - Chief Michael O'Hallorhan
[Bullitt, The Cincinnati Kid, The Great Escape, Papillon]
Paul Newman - Doug Roberts
[Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cool Hand Luke, The Sting, Slap Shot]
O.J. Simpson - Harry Jernigan
Robert Vaughn - Sen. Gary Parker
[BASEketball, The Bridge at Remagen, Bullitt, The Magnificent Seven, Superman III]
Robert Wagner - Dan Bigelow
[The Longest Day, Midway]
Susan Flannery - Lorrie

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