Earthquake（1974） - Main Title

[restructuremix5]

SUPREME SOUNDTRACK! SO FITTING AND SO INTENSE! Used to play this over and over at the age of 15! Love it still! Thank you, John!

[MCP2012]

A great, stirring, heroic, evocative classic from the musical genius that is John ("Johnny") Williams!! Bravo!

[arquicass]

 Excellent sountrack !

[olafreinhardweyer]

Williams was so much better before Star Wars!!!!

[spacepatrolman]

@olafreinhardweyer Your right with star wars he was ripping off korngold and elgar he did close encounters after star wars that was more originaland atonal

[OSTMixingAlliance]

@olafreinhardweyer I disagree.

[gojira2006]

Another Williams classic . . . !



[MCP2012]

@gojira2006 PRECISELY!!! *Towering Inferno* (Williams' Main Title, that is) is a teeny-tad bit better but THIS, *Earthquake* (the Main Title theme) is nonetheless absolutely magnificent: Stirring, heroic, evocative...brilliant!!

[1f5sda]

Uh Oh! LA is in peril.

[12345MINO]

Help Japan !! Real Earthquake in Miyagi,Fukushima pref.

[UFOSPACE1999]

DID we see the same film...THIS earthcrap has zero redeeming values...IT IS a bad film..Universals attempt to make huge profits quickly. THE sets looked just like that SETS..AND this shit was given a special Oscar for it's visuals..The Towering Inferno's was much better and refined. The only thing 1/2 decent was John Williams score...THIS was a major dud....

[roquefortfiles]

Ahh the 70's!! If you did not live this back in the day it is hard to impress on young people today how huge this movies release was back then. These truly were "event" films. No one had seen major destruction and fx like this back then. We were not immersed in one CGI spectacular week after week like today. This was MAJOR stuff to line up for.

[superbruce]

@roquefortfiles Yes ! And on top of it all- the BIG pictures had exclusive engagements at the best theaters in town- not on 20 screens everywhere- which made it all the morer special ! Sometimes we had to stand in line through one or two showings just to get inside... It helped to keep the magic and make it truly a special event !

[pladahitz]

SAW IT WHEN IT FIRST DEBUT IN HOLLYWOOD AT THE PANTAGES...GREAT

[DrGlitterhouse]

I remember the M&M with Peanuts rumbling in my stomach watching this in January of 1975. My favorite scene is still probably George Kennedy's introduction, when he punches out the state trooper.

[bkse2309]

Love this film, as a teen in the 70s I travelled around Birmingham, West Midlands from Solihull to see this is Sensurround, dragging friends or family if I could. Worth every penny, as were the trips to see Hindenburg, Towering Inferno and Poseisdon Adventure in 70mm. The demolition of the Birminghan Gaumont saddens me still. And I worked there. Any my boss was an awesome blonde punkette called Hazel Topping. Seriously. Then I went to uni and life was less fun. Hey Ho!

[TheMarilyn1969monroe]

Love this sounttrack, year and years...

[RunrigFan]

Amazing film

[UFOSPACE1999]

BAD visual's....it was crap back then and STILL crap today...

[billyralphweeden]

one of my most favorite movies

from the 1970s', with the great charlton heston and my ava gardner.........

will never forget the great special

effects, stars and music soundtrack.....

my god, here in 2010 this seems

like a lifetime ago........

the 1970s' was a decade filled

with big budget disaster movies,

and this certainly was one of them !!!!!

BILLY RALPH WEEDEN.

[stet1965]

Incredible special effects for its time except for the cheesy blood in the elevator scene! I saw this 4 or 5 times when it came out in Sensurround. Huge subwoofers vibrated the theater - I seem to remember them being 8 or 10 feet tall behind the last row of seats. Rollercoaster, and 1 or 2 other 70s movies used Sensurround if I recall correctly. The 1st time this was broadcast on network TV selected FM radio stations broadcast the intense bass during the quake scenes so u heard it @ home.

[ElCid48]

Sensurround was used also in the movie "MIDWAY" for when the bombs exploded all over the place.

[1f5sda]

@ElCid48 I just watched Midway and I saw "Sensurround" in the credits.

[ElCid48]

@1f5sda

Yes! It was pretty spectacular in Sensurround listening to the detonations of the bombs, the roar of the airplanes, etc.. It is a good movie.

[1f5sda]

@ElCid48 You are right!

[JillC2]

@stet1965 the sensurround damaged the ceiling tiles in some of the theaters it was shown in.

[DrGlitterhouse]

@stet1965 The third movie was Midway. I always thought Sensurround was more effective with the planes than the earthquake rumblings.

[TremendoGallo]

Wow, the most great film of disaster. The music is marvelous

[newalm]

Remember when the movie came out it was touting the new "Censorround" thing in theaters? I don't even know what that was...Stereo?

[newalm]

I saw this movie in the spring of 75, huge lines at the theater to see this film when it came out. This was made before computerized special effects and it was all done with models and sets. Pretty good job at that!

[roquefortfiles]

Its hard to put across to movie goers of today how HUGE these films were when they came out. They were MUST SEE events. This was before we were inundated with Roland Emrich films and The Day after etc... The visuals in these films ground breaking for the time. No one had seen destruction like this in a movie. I can still remember seeing this film in 74

[EFFANDJEFF]

The ride in Universal Studios was awesome too! Is it still there?

[oldclassicmovies]

Great theme song for a great movie.

I LOVE THIS MOVIE!

[CrazyBoutThe70s]

love the music...very 70s!

[UFOSPACE1999]

....and after the first 3 minutes this FLIC called Earthquake was truly bad. Extremely Bad Cinema. OH in the hell will go into a UNDERGROUND PARKING DECK??? AFTER A 8 QUAKE!!!! THOSE IDIOTS IN THIS QUACK FLIC!! BAD BAD BAD FILM>

[disasterzone1974]

Love this theme but I prefer the version used in the main title of the film.The orchestrations are different & the orchestra sounds bigger & the theme is more powerful in the opening credit sequence of the film than the original soundtrack was.Anyway,I still love it & it`s the best version of the theme ever recorded other than in the film itself.I wish someone would release a complete version of the soundtrack for EARTHQUAKE the same way they did for POSEIDON ADVENTURE & TOWERING INFERNO ( ;

[pookie67]

yea i wish there was an expanded score too. My favorite is the track called "love scene" which was used twice in the film, very softly in background, but there's something so haunting about how it's used in the last scene. It seems there actually wasn't a heck of a lot of music written for the film outside of many incidental cues but surely there is more music. They put out the original recording sessions for 'Family Plot' why not this?

[pladahitz2]

put the opening film of this on to go with the music bed much more interesting that way

[balletzoom]

Claro que se moverian los asientos se estreno el sonido sensurround, que tambien se puso en la pelicula Montaña Rusa del 77 en la que parecia que ibas montado en los vagones.

[IntermittentSprocket]

Like the opening with Earthquake rumbling Sensurround! Saw this three times in Sensurround at the Bournemouth ABC screen 1 cinema Westover road when it played back in 1974. Today the cinema sounds rubbish the projectionists are too afraid to play Dolby digital in its fullest. The region 2 DVD in full stereophonic six-track sensurround rumbles the room with close to the original experience on the JBL THX sound system.

[kenyah20]

Who else wants this movie on youtube?, I really wish this movie was on here.

[kenyah20]

Post All The Movie PLEASE!

[bennjr]

Get it on DVD.

[balletzoom]

En España fue todo un exito esta pelicula TERREMOTO EN 1975.

[luchono66]

aqui en chile tambien fue un exito,condecirte que los asientos se movian¡¡¡

[SausageMcNab]

Thanks for posting, a chilhood favorite

[DiscoVideoMix]

Thank you for posting the main title theme - it is one of John Williams exciting and most be-fitting pieces. I always loved it.

[UFOSPACE1999]

this is one piece of a shit flic. one of the worst ones made. even bad flics get nominated and win oscars, look at CRAPTANIC

[4516232]

this was made in 1974 u tool...how many other action films looked this good