Wednesday, 7 August 2013

Flames of ego

The Towering Inferno (1974)

Directed by John Guilermin this film stars Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden and Faye Dunaway. On the opening night of a massive new skyscraper cost cutting in the buildings construction leads to a massive fire.

This film fits right in with a glut of disaster films that were made around the same period and includes plenty of thrills and spills as the characters struggle to survive. It does take a little while for the story to get going but otherwise this is pretty standard genre fare. When it comes to the stunts some are pretty impressive but it largely fairly obvious model work a lot of the time.


3/5

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