The Towering Inferno - Region 2 DVD

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Directed by :

Irwin Allen

John Guillermin

Starring :

Paul Newman

Steve McQueen

William Holden

Faye Dunaway

Fred Astaire

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Description: Disaster movies used to work because there was little certainty as to who would survive. Not so in this film, really an amalgam of two original stories, about a group of well-to-do celebrants at the top floor of a skyscraper. Cheapo electrical wiring and bad construction management cause an enormous blaze at the lower floors, steadily rising to consume the revelers. Newman's an architect, McQueen a firefighter, and Fred Astaire a kind old gentleman, for which he was Oscar-nominated. O.J. Simpson plays a security guard who rescues a cat. Now that's a disaster. --Keith Simanton ... (more)

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Release date: 31 May 2006
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 7321900112536

Tags: 1970s (1), Fire (1), Disaster Movie (1)

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