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The Towering Inferno (Or known as Irwin Allen's Production of The Towering Inferno) is a 1974 American epic disaster drama action film directed by John Guillermin, and it was produced by Irwin Allen, featuring an ensemble cast led by Paul Newman (who would later voice as Doc Hudson in Cars), and Steve McQueen. The film is a co-production between 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. Pictures. The film was released on December 14, 1974, and it received a box office hit and received generally positive reviews from critics and audiences alike.

The following release of this film, Author Roderick Thorp, the author of the story series of The Detective had watched the film and later made a novel called Nother Lasts Forever and would later become the new film series called Die Hard, which it was released nearly fourteen years after the released of the film, with a similar premise.

Plot
In a presume almost-near distant future of San Francisco, the world's tallest building becomes victim to an electrical mishap and a subsequent huge fire on its upper floor's during the premiere party for the world's tallest 138 story skyscraper, causing all of the city's rescue teams to converge upon the scene and attempt to fight against the raging monster of flames.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The concept of having a world's tallest 130+ storey skyscraper (even taller than the Original World Trade Center from New York City) in San Francisco getting inferno by the flames is amazing, thus, having a story about an even taller skyscraper getting caught on fire is very terrifying to everyone who are in any skyscrapers across the city.
 * 2) Epic story, even though the movie is nearly three hours long, but it has rooms of thrills, blazing suspense, excitements, and thrilling moments throughout the film.
 * 3) Even though it is meant to be a fun-thriller-disaster movie, it does take a break from being a thriller film to have a nice romantic sub-plots for the couples at the top of the Glass Tower.
 * 4) Great acting from the casts, especially for Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, and the female, and male casts as well, not only that but Steven McQueen and Paul Newman's performances as Architect Doug Roberts, and Michael O'Hallorhan were spectacular, and both of them are pretty memorable at the time, and it also has likable characters, especially with a cute kitty at the apartment room in the film.
 * 5) *Doug Roberts is good as the Glass Tower architect.
 * 6) *Steve McQueen as Michael O'Hallorhan, SFFD 5th Battalion Chief is great.
 * 7) John Williams' soundtrack in the movie, is amazing as always, with a mix of excitement, scares and suspense throughout the movie, one and three years before he performed Jaws and Star Wars as well, in addition, a beautiful song named "We May Never Love Like This Again" that was made by Kasha/Hirschhorn.
 * 8) Lots of terrifying, and memorable moments from here and there, such as when you're riding on the chair connecting to the second skyscraper, not only that but it had a bunch of explosive jumpscares, which terrified many viewers who were watching the film.
 * 9) Great directing by John Guillermin.
 * 10) This is the several times that Irwin Allen has shown to have good skills as a producer, and his concept of the movie since he produces The Poseidon Adventure in 1972.
 * 11) The movie does have good touching moments, such as at the ending scene where Harlee is looking for Lisolette, not realizing she has been killed. Jernigan then catches up with him and hands him the cat.
 * 12) Amazing cinematography that were both well done by Frederick James Koenekamp, and Joseph Biroc.
 * 13) Shortly before the inferno started to happen there is a pretty good scene where a lot of people are dancing around on the top of the 135-floor skyscraper.
 * 14) If it weren't for the movie, the Die Hard franchise would've never be made.
 * 15) The fire effects in the film are very impressive, and realistic, and they look good for the mid-1970's standards.
 * 16) The Glass Tower, the tallest building than the original World Trade Center in the movie, is well done designed, almost looked as realistic as a fictional skyscraper was.
 * 17) Great ending, they managed the bombed the water tanks up in the skyscraper to extinguishing the flames, saving the glass tower.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The first several parts of the movie, before the inferno started to happen can be rather boring at times.
 * 2) It can be pretty long at times.
 * 3) Some of the deaths are "very horrifying to the viewers," such as a lot of people on the 135th floor falls to their deaths, seeing a person burning in flames deadlier, which it isn't suitable for a PG rating.
 * 4) The Builder can be pretty lousy at times, such as the scene during his phone call with Michael, where he doesn't believe that the fire started at the 81st floor, right before the firefighters arrives at the Glass Tower.

Critical response
The Towering Inferno was released on December 14, 1974, and it was well-received from critics and audiences alike. It received a 69% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 32 reviews, and according to the site's consensus states: "Although it is not consistently engaging enough to fully justify its towering runtime, "The Towering Inferno" is a blustery spectacle that executes its disaster premise with flair." Metacritic scores a film a 69/100 "Generally favorable reviews" and a 7/10 on IMDb. Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film three out of four stars and praised it as "the best of the mid-1970s wave of disaster films".

Box Office
The movie became the second huge hit in 1975, with over domestic rentals of $48,838,000, and the movie grossed over 203 million dollars, making a huge box office hit.

Die Hard franchise
Author Roderick Thorp, the author of the story series of The Detective, saw the movie, after seeing the film, Thorp fell asleep and had a dream of seeing a man being chased through a skyscraper by men with guns. He woke up and later took that idea and turned it into The Detective sequel, Nothing Lasts Forever, in 1988, Die Hard was released with a similar premise to the movie.

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Trivia

 * Both novels were inspired by the construction of the World Trade Center in the early-1970s, and what could happen in a fire in a skyscraper. In Richard Martin Stern's novel "The Tower", the fictional 140-story building was set next to the north tower of the World Trade Center. The climax of the novel was centered around a rescue mounted from the north tower.
 * The building used in the film was a series of miniatures and matte paintings. Only sections of the building were actually constructed for the actors and stunt people to perform their scenes. Interior shots of the building were of San Francisco's Hyatt Regency. Exterior shots used the Bank of America building (at 555 California St.) with an additional 50 stories of matte paintings added.
 * There were over 1,000 real firefighters were hired throughout the entire production.
 * This is the final film to involved with Jennifer Jones.
 * This film marked the first joint production by 2 major studios: "Warner Bros." and "20th Century-Fox."