The Towering Inferno is sci fi/fantasy??
It's a disaster flick, so it probaly qualifies
The first film to have two separate studios (Fox and Warners) involved. They each owned the rights to similar books, and wisely joined forces to make a big blockbuster.
Ya knew the tower was doomed...one of the people responsible was O.J. Simpson
This is yet another example of irresponsible flaming on this board. I made this movie years before I murdered my ex wife and that waiter guy.
Ironic, isn't it? O.J saves a kitty from burning up in this flick, yet 20 years later is arrested and tried for a heinous double murder.
A music nitpick - The scores for both Earthquake and Inferno were composed by John Williams, and both pics were in theaters in the late fall of 1974. It seems he borrowed a little bit of his Earthquake score for this.
In this movie, Paul Newman's and Faye Dunaway's characters are engaged (to each other, of course 
.) When I first saw it, way back in '74, I thought they were a bit old for a first marriage. (Newman was 49, and Dunaway was 33, during the shoot.) In the extended version assembled from outtake for NBC back in 1980, the additional dialog established that one of them (IIRC, it was Faye Dunaway's Susan) had been divorced.
The windows in the promenade room in certain angles look like what they probably are made of - hard plastic.
The background painting of San Francisco seen from the Glass Tower was recycled in Star Trek II.
Look for Dabney Coleman (9 to 5) and Felton Perry (Robocop) in small roles.
Even though I've seen the scene many times, the climax is still pretty suspenseful. Credit goes to the actors' faces, as they look very frightened. Much credit goes to John Williams' great music cue for the scene.
The tuxedoes on some of the main cast look very dated today. Especially the brown ones worn by Richard Chamberlain and William Holden. OK, that was the style then. That doesn't make it any less ridiculous today.
Credit goes to the actors' faces, as they look very frightened.
I'm not sure how much acting was involve there. They were about to have things explode all around them and have millions of gallons of water dumped on them. Even in a controlled Hollywood situation, that must have been really scary.
Woulda scared me, if I was there, and tons of water were going to be dropped on my head. Good point. Thanks.
The film is available on both a two-disc DVD and single-disc Blu-Ray. Here's a review of the latter.
No one seems to drive their own car in the film; taxis and limos are used a lot. When I visited San Francisco in 1985, I had the rental car that I drove up from L.A. with. I quickly found out that even though a car is a necessity in the City of Angels, in San Francisco, it pretty much was a headache, and it went back to the rental agency almost right away.