Paul Newman,William Holden The Towering Inferno (1974)

The Towering Inferno (1974) Both novels that were behind this film were inspired by the construction of the World Trade Center in the early-1970s, and what could happen in fire in a skyscraper. Taglines: One minute you're attending a party atop the world's tallest skyscraper. The next... you're trapped with 294 other guests in the middle of a fiery hell. disastermovieworld.com/2009/09/06/the-towering-inf… Producer Irwin Allen (who also made The Poseidon Adventure and would keep making disaster epics with less well-regarded films like The Swarm and Beyond the Poseidon Adventure) shared directorial duties with John Guillermin (who, sadly, went on to direct the execrable 1976 version of King Kong). Sterling Silliphant (Academy Award winner for his screenplay to In the Heat of the Night) wrote the script as an adaptation of not one but two novels: The Tower by Richard Martin Stern, and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N Scortia and Frank M Robinson. The film was eventually nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning three.

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