@winddancer1562 Inferno was a disaster movie all right. A complete disaster of a film. Earthquake was a lot better especially with the special effects and the love triangle that was going on between Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner and Genevieve Bujold.
...I would have to say Poseidon Adventure is the best of all time,especially the Christmas Tree scene when everyone drowns, but Towering Inferno is awesome because of all the explosions and fire, Yay.....
I wouldn't exactly call it the best disaster movie ever made. There are other disaster movies that are much better. Titanic (1997), Earthquake (1974), the Poseidon Adventure (1972), Airport (1970).
Great movie. I can't decide which is better, TTI or THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE. One day it's one, the next it's the other. Both are ensconced solidly within my Top Ten of ALLLL TIME. CuffColl.
i miss the gene of movies,you paid two bucks to see things blow up are a star filled cast from yesteryear all together to fight to survive,and to see susan flanelring jump out the window is classic
@chocospartans27 Yeah back then they'd actually tell you what kind of movie you were going to see, not like today when it's just a bunch of random clips and maybe a couple of lines of 'oh this is what's up with these characters' which in fact still explains nothing and expect everybody to come pay $10 a ticket to see something they have no idea what it's about.
@sscc121 Yeah, I saw it last night and it gives this impression of actually being a depiction of real events that must've taken place sometime in the past, it's so rich in technical details... but apparently, no, it's not based on real events, or at least so they say, right after the end credits...
I love the towering inferon i think it is the best disaster movie of all time. I Remember seeing it back in 3rd grade(10 years ago) yes i am younger(19) so i have a question for people in my age group who love this movie. Is it just me or is the music that starts playing at around 0:48 and when Dan Bigalow dies in the movie or does that same music play in the original Land Before time when little goes to save Ducky and spike from the lava.
@Rocky54167 it has just always seemed to me that it has been that way and almost like james horner almost stole the theme and altered it. Now don't get me wrong i think he is a great composer i love his and john williams work but it always has seemed to me that this movie and the land before time had the same snipet of music
Things change. And while those part of the world have learned their lesson the hard way, you have NOT.
Media bias is inande in the States. That BS such as Fox News even exists and is popular is proof enough.
And is "crazy" the ONLY word you can come up with when discribing other ideologies? What's so crazy about fascism anyway? YOU are as close to fascist as you could possibly get and still be called a "democracy".
And let's not even mention your blatant ignorance of the world
@McLarenMercedes what's so crazy about faschism? Silly fool....no free and open elections, no freedom of speech, assembly or press, no parliament with multiple parties...and lots of corruption.
Everyone knows that Sweden was supporting Germany in WW1 and WW2...so you have a bad history of backing the wrong horse!
Why don't you leave Sweden and go back to whatever muslim hellhole you crawled out of?
OMG that building was more 'on fire' than the WTC towers on 9/11, yet did most of the people trapped inside survive or not? (I read the book once and saw the movie on TV a long time ago, so I sort of forget.)
I remember seeing this film when it came out. Fantastic!! What is really erie to me now is looking at this promo and thinking how the Inferno very closely resembles the World Trade Center ablaze.
@LtPaddlesWebb yah and if you think 9/11 was inside job, this is certainly a blueprint of sorts. Ever notice how the 9/11 magic story was pre-packaged and ready to go at 9AM on the morning of? Osama bin Who did What? It is pretty clear the three WTC buildings were taken down by high tech demolition. Ever notice the coward USA has been broke and broken ever since partnering up with the "patriot" official magic story? And GW Bush told you to buy into into or else you were a terrorist.
@EdwardRommel Airplanes do not make buildings fall down. Little camp fires that are going out do not make buildings fall out of the sky. Why do you give yourself to these magic story lies? Is it too big of an insult to your programming? Or maybe you are naive how false flag OP is done. What about 400 cameras at the Pentagon and no picture yet of an "airliner." The whole thing is an OP/ Lie. No one outside of USA believes these magic stories. By the way, please look up Operation Mockingbird.
@Joeey commercial airliners have never before hit a building...especially one contructed like the WTC without the normal support beams but you don't really know anything about the construction because you are not an architecht or civil engineer so you are not really qualified to render an opinion.
NATGeO, Discovery channel, history channel, science channel have all analyzed the WTC attack and determined that the fire from the burning fuel brought down the buildings...period.....CASE CLOSED!
@EdwardRommel Period / case closed is not how research is done. What, you just make stuff up and pull it out of a rabbit hat? You are not responsible citizen. To analyze an event you reference case studies. There are many examples of steel tall buildings with intense fires. WTC 1,2 and 7 were brought down with explosives, there is much evidence and many witnesses. People outside of the USA brainwashing zone laugh at Americans who believe the irresponsible misinformation you are promoting.
@EdwardRommel Wait a minute, you are referencing four television channels as researchers? Have you lost your mind? Why don't you look into the actual producers who made these propaganda programs. The one who made NAT GEO propaganda movie has nothing to do with NAT GEO. They just used the brand name to distribute it. You really no little about how propaganda is done. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE look up "Operation Mockingbird" (written about by a Harvard University man) and stop being so daft !!!
A great film starring Steve McQueen -who insisted on top billing -
Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Bill Holden, Fred Astaire and Jennifer Jones (Holden and Ms Jones were romantic leads in Love Is A Many Splendored Thing).
Steve McQueen read the script and insisted he not only have top first billing over Paul Newman, but that McQueen have more lines than Newman. Paul Newman, ever the pro, just shrugged
@ToughXArmy69 I also heard somewhere that Steve Mcqueen was originally meant to play Paul's Newman's role as the Architect, seems like there were quite few disputes behind the scene's for while though, before this film got off the ground.
Similar. He was called 'The Master Of Disasters' since he had produced quite a few (The Poseidon Adventure, this, Swarm...) and other stuff, such as the TV show 'Lost In Space'.
@djAnonymous10: Ah... to put it mildly, Michael Bay is the Irwin Allen of the 2010s. It all started with this movie...Irwin Allen was known as "The Master of Disaster". I would rather watch this movie than anything Michael Bay has produced.
gosh was I ever born in the wrong time ( 1995) .I love these old movies! great casts, great productions, great everything!! I love all old entertainment , warner brothers cartoons, old 70s disaster films , old TV shows, anything older than the 90s!!
That's how they used to advertise these films back in the day. Not much different than those radio adverts where they repeat a telephone number so many times you switch off due to aggrevation.
@runawayfreak Same guy (he went to jail, but not for the murder). If I remember it's just a little more than a cameo role. He saves a kitten at the end. That scene is priceless!
Mqueen could be an ass hole at times. He also felt Newman was getting more screen time, so had the producers film additional scenes some time later on purpose built sets.
I was named after him, as my mother was and still is a huge fan. That's why I know these Mqueen trivias. I personally never liked him, because my mum had told me, he was a cunt at times. He also didnt like it that James Garner was getting a lot of attention/screen time... during the filming of The Great Escape
I asked my Dad to take me to go see this movie when I was 3 because I thought Steve was so cute and felt tingly. I didn't know or give a damn what this movie was about, I just wanted to see him in his scenes. I feel ashamed, if my Dad ever found out the real reason I asked him to take me to see this.
I fucking hated 2001 Space Odysey, the Pink Pather, Star Wars, Jaws and Close Ecounters, I thought I was in hell being bored as ****, waiting for those s--- movies to be over. This was my kind of movie and Rock'nRoll highschool..
No... but from 'the horses mouth' Clint says on the special features of PMFM that a writer friend of his joanne heims had written PMFM and he bought it from her on an option agreement, then two years later he showed it to the studio, who then wanted it for themselves and actually wanted to change the title. Clint said no and that the only way they would be involved would be if he directed. they agreed, but he had to do it for free, but eventually got a profit percentage.
actually, type in films turned down by steve mcqueen and you will see a site and on that site it says mcqueen turned down play misty for me because the woman had the stronger part, and he turned down dirty harry because he didnt want to do another cop thriller after bullitt
i've just spoken to my Mqueen mad mother on the phone and she said you're right Mqueen, was offered the role of Dirty Harry, but felt the role was to anti establishment and not a hero, but a vigilante... On wikipidia it says sinatra accepted the role, but broke his wrist and had to pull out and it was paul newman, who had also declined, but suggested Clint... so my apologies on that one, but not on PMFM ;-)
Physics for future presidents is that the the WTC did not fall because of the airplanes nor the explosion, it was because of the fire and the heat of the fire and the physics behind the fire. The fire would most likely have cause the steel columns to buckle and weaken eventually collapsing on its own weight like in the WTC not like what happened in this movie.
This movie scared the crap out of me when I saw it on TV at age 10. You can see some holes in the special effects now (like the fire consistently burning on the same exterior floors throughout the movie), but for 35 years ago, this was a classic. Still is today.
THANKS FOR POSTING THIS LITTLE GEM, ONE OF MY FAVORITE FILMS OF ALL TIME. I AGREE ABOUT McQUEEN (RIP), WHO IN MY OPINION STOLE THE SHOW FROM NEWMAN (RIP). ANYONE KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY PLANS TO RELEASE THIS ON BLU-RAY?
This is one of Steve McQueen's greatest movies. I could get lost in those beautiful, baby blue bedroom eyes of his. The other cast members were super as well.
What an incredible movie. Non-stop action, and disturbingly, non-stop deaths. Every 5 minutes, someone dies in a new and unique way. It's quite a roller coaster ride.
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Paul Newman should not have supported New Testament sinful gay rights. There is, BTW, a great new bio on him (Paul newman: the Dream has Ended) on him at amazon.
@DrGregoryHouseIT God didn't create gays. Since adam and eve ate that apple that they were not suppose to God put a curse on the earth, and the devil did his thing on making the earth more worse. He was even the one that create man on man relation, and other bad things.
For the love of Tom Servo, WHEN WILL YOU BIGOTS STOP DEMONIZING GAY PEOPLE!!!
What did they DO to you people? Why can't you live your life without needs to tell others how to live theirs? It's people like you who give the Christian Religion a bad name.
And furthermore, why are you this obsessed with punishment? And why should love be considered as punishment?
@LtSurge659 After looking through pages and pages of comments, and knowing Paul Newman's track record with political affairs, I think it had to do with someone being angry that Newman advocated for gay rights. It was a year ago though, so some comments were probably deleted by now.
@Dudufrias you should not tell people that their religion does not exist everybody has faith in something you got to believe in something you cant just going around telling people there is no god they will lose faith in something one question when you die where would you go?
@afroman255 The author Mark Twain once made the observation that prior to eating the forbidden fruit, Adam and Eve did not know the different between right and wrong, and therefore had no way of knowing that it was wrong to disobey God. The million dollar question is does this let them off the hook?
@Bestmanme08 Get a grip , Paul newman had the right to support whatever he wanted , and anyway forget about his personal life and enjoy the mans amazing acting ability , he was brilliant .
I'm a straight man by the way but i have no problem with gay people , maybe your a little unsure of your own sexuality that's why you dislike gay people ?
I saw TTI in 74, we went to see Herbie and the love bug ..and just sat there after it was over..people started filing in..next thing you know TTI started..it wasn't intentional,but we had stay and watch it ,to me this movie was big time .. I was 9. ..after we discovered how easy it was to remain in the theater until the next show,I saw Stepford Wives, and A star is born,(Streisand/Kristofferson)
It was a coincidence but in 1974 a fire happened in São Paulo just like that. Electrical problems in the air conditioner sytem led a fire that consumed all floors. Hundreds died and firemen had problems to extinguish the fire. They had to leave the building burning and rescue people that were in the roof top.
Not just the greatest disaster film ever made but one of the greatest films of all time. Should have been called Towering Dinners though because after all, William Holden did say to the guests "I promise you, dinner will not be delayed." As far as I know the guests never got their dinners, and apart from the hellish inferno that was eating up his building, I want to know why everyone's dinners were delayed!
That's all good and well, but what I want to know is why we never get even a glance at...."THE CONTINENTAL ROOM!" Holden tells everyone that the party will decamp to "THE CONTINENTAL ROOM" (safely located on the ground floor)...but do we ever get to SEE it? No! But I can see it in my mind's eye....and it's GLORIOUS (complete with Burt Bacharach/Sergio Mendes inspired band and maybe even some Tiki mugs).
I was 10 when this movie was out, and I think that was the last time I saw it...until watching it on DVD last nigt. Truly an epic, the best ot the disaster-movie genre by far IMHHO. Impressive cast and amazing special effetcs, done long before computer-graphics and simulations, all with miniatures and live-action fire scenes, etc.
You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll watch them die!
hermitcrabbot 1 week ago
I just finished watching this. GREAT 1970s disaster film! Steve McQueen and Paul Newman made an incredible team!
sgauden02 1 week ago
Ma nei trailer prima ti facevano vedere paranoicamente tutto il film?! Poi al cinema che ci andavi a fare?!
matteur11 1 week ago
This is my favorite of the 70's disaster flicks!! This is also the best too!!
TheMoviedude2012 1 month ago
Replica of 9/11......
MrSingaporeproductio 1 month ago
By farthe best of the great epic disaster films.
winddancer1562 1 month ago
@winddancer1562 Inferno was a disaster movie all right. A complete disaster of a film. Earthquake was a lot better especially with the special effects and the love triangle that was going on between Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner and Genevieve Bujold.
denny906 2 days ago
@denny906
Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. NO!
DrGregoryHouseIT 2 days ago
5 people have Fire Hoses that don't work.
pantpooer 1 month ago
Die Hard borrowed a lot of elements from this movie, like in 1:12.
BlueEyeDarkSky 2 months ago
...I would have to say Poseidon Adventure is the best of all time,especially the Christmas Tree scene when everyone drowns, but Towering Inferno is awesome because of all the explosions and fire, Yay.....
SleepWhenIamDead 2 months ago
@SleepWhenIamDead and the cast!!!
joesatana 1 month ago
I wouldn't exactly call it the best disaster movie ever made. There are other disaster movies that are much better. Titanic (1997), Earthquake (1974), the Poseidon Adventure (1972), Airport (1970).
denny906 2 months ago
@denny906
Uh, no. The Towering Inferno is better than them ALL.
DrGregoryHouseIT 2 months ago 9
@denny906 TITANIC (1997)????? really???? i mean, are you in crack???? really??? that's a huge shit! Towering Inferno is the #1!!!
joesatana 1 month ago
@denny906 Poseidon adventure was my favovrite although Towering Inferno was the best and only good Firefighter movie ever made!
vikings844 1 month ago
i have the original pre cert video the running time is over 10 minutes longer than the dvd i have how come???
BlytheWorld1972 2 months ago
Great movie. I can't decide which is better, TTI or THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE. One day it's one, the next it's the other. Both are ensconced solidly within my Top Ten of ALLLL TIME. CuffColl.
CuffColl 2 months ago
Best video of this awful, frightening movie - too predictive as authors can make a future! 2.November 1991 died Great Movie Director IRWIN ALLEN.
arenadri7 3 months ago
Awesome movie.. Steve McQueen pretty much runs away with it :)
I love the romance between Jennifer Jones and Fred Astaire. So cute. Hated she died in the film. That was the worst part for me.
snoops71 3 months ago 2
Love this film, action packed from start to finish.
MeBenHalpin 3 months ago
This film is before Back to the Future starring Michael J. Fox in 1985.
DorothyAnn64116 4 months ago
I was 10 went i saw this at the cinema.Awesome times!
jevilscientist 4 months ago
i miss the gene of movies,you paid two bucks to see things blow up are a star filled cast from yesteryear all together to fight to survive,and to see susan flanelring jump out the window is classic
starfyre05 4 months ago
This movie was desperate to make money. The announcer went on and on and on with the plot
chocospartans27 5 months ago
@chocospartans27
Trailers were made this way back then.
DrGregoryHouseIT 5 months ago 6
@chocospartans27 Yeah back then they'd actually tell you what kind of movie you were going to see, not like today when it's just a bunch of random clips and maybe a couple of lines of 'oh this is what's up with these characters' which in fact still explains nothing and expect everybody to come pay $10 a ticket to see something they have no idea what it's about.
TheBookWorm1718 4 months ago
@chocospartans27 This was the number one money maker of the year. So apparently it worked.
Gnillob802 2 months ago in playlist (Vintage) Disaster Films Trailers
I laughed a little when the voice over said OJ SIMPSON
chocospartans27 5 months ago 2
Does anybody know what a Continental Room is?
pointreyes6 6 months ago
haud on the noo, the building's on fii-iire!!
ah yes, still game!
Kinlochbervie50 6 months ago
I am still upset that Jennifer Jones character dies!
Mascro1977 7 months ago 2
4 people don't like having to race against time!
chain0fflowers 8 months ago
Four people should jump out of a skyscraper.
kellogg170 8 months ago
i saw it this morning it was pretty good is this based on a true story?
sscc121 8 months ago
@sscc121 Yeah, I saw it last night and it gives this impression of actually being a depiction of real events that must've taken place sometime in the past, it's so rich in technical details... but apparently, no, it's not based on real events, or at least so they say, right after the end credits...
vivvpprof 7 months ago
I'm afraid to say a remake of this classic likely won't do it justice.
LtSurge659 10 months ago
i just purchased this on dvd. They do not make movies with allstar cast like this anymore. This was classic movie!!
youngercga1968 10 months ago
great movie of the 1970,s.
winston678 10 months ago
Maravillosa pelciula, una de las que siempre me han gustado....un reparto grandioso.
Una de las inmortales...
lmrs2 11 months ago
LOL OJ!!
DAGRIT5 11 months ago
@DAGRIT5
and he is NOT the murderer
Mascro1977 7 months ago
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And we'll be serving cocktails and champagne in our Continental Room.
pointreyes6 11 months ago
The scene where Faye Dunaway is with the other women in 0:40 exist? I watched this film several times and didn´t see it!
Ro34100 11 months ago
@Ro34100 It's the scene in the scenic elevator with the explosion.
MrPixarGuy 6 months ago
I hear they're going to remake more of these disaster films. That's just Hollywood in it's death throes.
Snapscape 1 year ago
I love the towering inferon i think it is the best disaster movie of all time. I Remember seeing it back in 3rd grade(10 years ago) yes i am younger(19) so i have a question for people in my age group who love this movie. Is it just me or is the music that starts playing at around 0:48 and when Dan Bigalow dies in the movie or does that same music play in the original Land Before time when little goes to save Ducky and spike from the lava.
Rocky54167 1 year ago
@Rocky54167 it has just always seemed to me that it has been that way and almost like james horner almost stole the theme and altered it. Now don't get me wrong i think he is a great composer i love his and john williams work but it always has seemed to me that this movie and the land before time had the same snipet of music
Rocky54167 1 year ago
they cant just walk out the front door. thats wat ive wouldve done
SuperZackattack23 1 year ago
"people outside of the USA brainwashing zone laugh..."...hmm
Well let's examine the people outside the USA...
Germany...fell under the crazy insane Nazi ideology...
Italy....fell under the crazy faschist ideology..
Japan...fell under the crazy Shintoist-fascist ideology
Spain....fell under the crazy fascist ideology...
Russia...fell under the crazy communist ideology...
Now who really is susceptible to brainwashing?...the USA or "people outside of the USA?"
EdwardRommel 1 year ago
@EdwardRommel
Things change. And while those part of the world have learned their lesson the hard way, you have NOT.
Media bias is inande in the States. That BS such as Fox News even exists and is popular is proof enough.
And is "crazy" the ONLY word you can come up with when discribing other ideologies? What's so crazy about fascism anyway? YOU are as close to fascist as you could possibly get and still be called a "democracy".
And let's not even mention your blatant ignorance of the world
McLarenMercedes 1 year ago
@McLarenMercedes what's so crazy about faschism? Silly fool....no free and open elections, no freedom of speech, assembly or press, no parliament with multiple parties...and lots of corruption.
Everyone knows that Sweden was supporting Germany in WW1 and WW2...so you have a bad history of backing the wrong horse!
Why don't you leave Sweden and go back to whatever muslim hellhole you crawled out of?
EdwardRommel 1 year ago
@EdwardRommel
And for your info ideas of Eugenics that Hitler and other nazis were started among scholars in America, and the idea had broad support.
You are rapidly turning into a military dictatorship yourselves and will believe any small country in the middle east is a "threat".
YOU are a fascist if I ever saw one.Your pathetic black and white view of the world is evidence enough
If it wasn't for a lot of American businessmen supporting Hitler (Henry Ford for instance)where would he be?
McLarenMercedes 1 year ago
this film had special fx way ahead of its time
jkk45 1 year ago
0:45
CircusofPython 1 year ago
OMG that building was more 'on fire' than the WTC towers on 9/11, yet did most of the people trapped inside survive or not? (I read the book once and saw the movie on TV a long time ago, so I sort of forget.)
adhfan75 1 year ago
UNBELIEVABLE:The movie was an inspiration for Die Hard
tonymas004 1 year ago
oj simpson. lol
gorgeconowitz 1 year ago 3
I remember seeing this when I was young and i was absolutely terrified ! Real masterpiece
nualao 1 year ago
@nualao Me too, in fact even now, it still makes me very wary, all in all classic movie though.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
This film is definitely goes up against earthquake which was
released on the same year with much lower budget than the
towering inferno.
Biggest of the action stars Charlton heston vs. steve mcqueen!
But i like earthquake's own shook the theatre sensurround!
I may not know how much it can damage the theatre but
the new 5.1 dolby digital is enough to shake my whole house!
brainysnaeha 1 year ago
I remember seeing this film when it came out. Fantastic!! What is really erie to me now is looking at this promo and thinking how the Inferno very closely resembles the World Trade Center ablaze.
LtPaddlesWebb 1 year ago 8
@LtPaddlesWebb yah and if you think 9/11 was inside job, this is certainly a blueprint of sorts. Ever notice how the 9/11 magic story was pre-packaged and ready to go at 9AM on the morning of? Osama bin Who did What? It is pretty clear the three WTC buildings were taken down by high tech demolition. Ever notice the coward USA has been broke and broken ever since partnering up with the "patriot" official magic story? And GW Bush told you to buy into into or else you were a terrorist.
Joeey 1 year ago
@Joeey You're insane...9/11 was done by 19 sunni Saudi Arab Hiackers...period!!
Get a life MORON!
EdwardRommel 1 year ago
@EdwardRommel Airplanes do not make buildings fall down. Little camp fires that are going out do not make buildings fall out of the sky. Why do you give yourself to these magic story lies? Is it too big of an insult to your programming? Or maybe you are naive how false flag OP is done. What about 400 cameras at the Pentagon and no picture yet of an "airliner." The whole thing is an OP/ Lie. No one outside of USA believes these magic stories. By the way, please look up Operation Mockingbird.
Joeey 1 year ago
@Joeey commercial airliners have never before hit a building...especially one contructed like the WTC without the normal support beams but you don't really know anything about the construction because you are not an architecht or civil engineer so you are not really qualified to render an opinion.
NATGeO, Discovery channel, history channel, science channel have all analyzed the WTC attack and determined that the fire from the burning fuel brought down the buildings...period.....CASE CLOSED!
EdwardRommel 1 year ago
@EdwardRommel Period / case closed is not how research is done. What, you just make stuff up and pull it out of a rabbit hat? You are not responsible citizen. To analyze an event you reference case studies. There are many examples of steel tall buildings with intense fires. WTC 1,2 and 7 were brought down with explosives, there is much evidence and many witnesses. People outside of the USA brainwashing zone laugh at Americans who believe the irresponsible misinformation you are promoting.
Joeey 1 year ago
@EdwardRommel Wait a minute, you are referencing four television channels as researchers? Have you lost your mind? Why don't you look into the actual producers who made these propaganda programs. The one who made NAT GEO propaganda movie has nothing to do with NAT GEO. They just used the brand name to distribute it. You really no little about how propaganda is done. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE look up "Operation Mockingbird" (written about by a Harvard University man) and stop being so daft !!!
Joeey 1 year ago
@EdwardRommel who owns those networks? do some homework, buddy, before you bash 9/11 truthers!!!
xcited4vids 11 months ago
You people find the most random videos to make the most pointless arguments on.
IwasBobadooFirst 1 year ago 3
Man, Faye Dunaway was pretty hot back in the 70s. She looks great!
KinzCove 1 year ago
I love this movie!
TheBookWorm1718 1 year ago
This was probably one of the best films of the 70's
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago 2
Great cast, except OJ.
talltom1973 1 year ago
Michael Bay is a moron.
PGMAMustDie 1 year ago
OJ Simpson was in a movie!? Whaaa???
clayton7m 1 year ago
Absoluely love this film, shame they don't make them like that anymore!!!
classybird1972 1 year ago
A great film starring Steve McQueen -who insisted on top billing -
Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Bill Holden, Fred Astaire and Jennifer Jones (Holden and Ms Jones were romantic leads in Love Is A Many Splendored Thing).
Steve McQueen read the script and insisted he not only have top first billing over Paul Newman, but that McQueen have more lines than Newman. Paul Newman, ever the pro, just shrugged
RIP McQueen, Astaire, Holden, Jones, Newman
ToughXArmy69 1 year ago 2
@ToughXArmy69 I also heard somewhere that Steve Mcqueen was originally meant to play Paul's Newman's role as the Architect, seems like there were quite few disputes behind the scene's for while though, before this film got off the ground.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
BURN BABY BURN!, LOL
SuperRaider1000 1 year ago
the director must've been the michael bay of the 1970s
djAnonymous10 1 year ago 9
@djAnonymous10
Similar. He was called 'The Master Of Disasters' since he had produced quite a few (The Poseidon Adventure, this, Swarm...) and other stuff, such as the TV show 'Lost In Space'.
He was way better than Michael Bay, though.
DrGregoryHouseIT 1 year ago 17
@DrGregoryHouseIT
I can't even believe this guy compared that Fecal Matter Director to that of this movie.
LtSurge659 10 months ago
@djAnonymous10: Ah... to put it mildly, Michael Bay is the Irwin Allen of the 2010s. It all started with this movie...Irwin Allen was known as "The Master of Disaster". I would rather watch this movie than anything Michael Bay has produced.
marcparella 6 months ago
I first saw this on the television in 1991.....a great film indeed!
lancemckellar 1 year ago
Back when skyscrapers on fire where cool
curak76 1 year ago
gosh was I ever born in the wrong time ( 1995) .I love these old movies! great casts, great productions, great everything!! I love all old entertainment , warner brothers cartoons, old 70s disaster films , old TV shows, anything older than the 90s!!
1bz78a 1 year ago
@1bz78a I agree, wish i had been teenager around this era, the 70's seemed like such great decade to live in.
MeBenHalpin 1 year ago
Best disaster movie ever made !!
skyhighwhite 1 year ago
RIP Steve McQueen and Paul Newman
kapat12724 1 year ago
@kapat12724 Both legends R.I.P
Climberk9 1 year ago
sorry... but whats the name of the movie again?
matadordn 1 year ago 4
@matadordn
The towering inferno
Findulidas 1 year ago
@Findulidas haha thanks it was just a bad joke
matadordn 1 year ago
one of the best movies of all time
hardtime3000 1 year ago
Two words as to why youshould watch Towering Inferno----Susan Flannery.
pickfordsmith 1 year ago
Does it worth to watch ?
Alexvideoclip 1 year ago
McQueen wanted Newmans part but in the end took the chiefs part...the got equal billing in the opening credits.
usrt46 1 year ago
sinpsonns
lglimited 1 year ago
ok, I'm getting sick of this "towering inferno"! Says it 6 times in 2 minutes!
jera3 1 year ago
That's how they used to advertise these films back in the day. Not much different than those radio adverts where they repeat a telephone number so many times you switch off due to aggrevation.
lp115lp 1 year ago
was this the inspiration to spark war?
borisbmx 1 year ago
Wait!! OJ simpson?? isn't that the guy that got sentenced for murder? (Not sure anymore)
runawayfreak 1 year ago
he didnt get sentenced. he was the main suspect and more than likely WAS the murderer
Hobinator17 1 year ago
No, he is a football player.
Alexvideoclip 1 year ago
@Alexvideoclip
No he is a murdered. And yes, it's worth to watch
SSTTEEAALLTTHH 1 year ago
@runawayfreak Same guy (he went to jail, but not for the murder). If I remember it's just a little more than a cameo role. He saves a kitten at the end. That scene is priceless!
lrd9999 1 year ago
A race of time, a fight agenced the Towering Inferno do not jump thay may be able to save you.
ebkvideos 1 year ago
OJ Simpson HAHAHAHA!
midprod 2 years ago 4
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Mqueen could be an ass hole at times. He also felt Newman was getting more screen time, so had the producers film additional scenes some time later on purpose built sets.
I was named after him, as my mother was and still is a huge fan. That's why I know these Mqueen trivias. I personally never liked him, because my mum had told me, he was a cunt at times. He also didnt like it that James Garner was getting a lot of attention/screen time... during the filming of The Great Escape
bladrunner6 2 years ago
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louischike 2 years ago
o.j may he BURN In HELL!
busterbeezandjack 2 years ago
I asked my Dad to take me to go see this movie when I was 3 because I thought Steve was so cute and felt tingly. I didn't know or give a damn what this movie was about, I just wanted to see him in his scenes. I feel ashamed, if my Dad ever found out the real reason I asked him to take me to see this.
twinkiepoodle 2 years ago
I fucking hated 2001 Space Odysey, the Pink Pather, Star Wars, Jaws and Close Ecounters, I thought I was in hell being bored as ****, waiting for those s--- movies to be over. This was my kind of movie and Rock'nRoll highschool..
twinkiepoodle 2 years ago
i agree with you on the others. But i love Jaws
I used to love star wars, but george lucas as milked it to the point of annoyance, so i dispise it now.
bladrunner6 2 years ago
you are wrong
where did you read that
in a Clint Eastwood bio or something
look in any reputable cinema book about Mcqueen and you will see i am right
5wmh37 2 years ago
No... but from 'the horses mouth' Clint says on the special features of PMFM that a writer friend of his joanne heims had written PMFM and he bought it from her on an option agreement, then two years later he showed it to the studio, who then wanted it for themselves and actually wanted to change the title. Clint said no and that the only way they would be involved would be if he directed. they agreed, but he had to do it for free, but eventually got a profit percentage.
bladrunner6 2 years ago
fair enough mate
let's agree to disagree lol
i have read it in a few publications but maybe they got it wrong i dont know
good films anyway
5wmh37 2 years ago
actually, type in films turned down by steve mcqueen and you will see a site and on that site it says mcqueen turned down play misty for me because the woman had the stronger part, and he turned down dirty harry because he didnt want to do another cop thriller after bullitt
5wmh37 2 years ago
i've just spoken to my Mqueen mad mother on the phone and she said you're right Mqueen, was offered the role of Dirty Harry, but felt the role was to anti establishment and not a hero, but a vigilante... On wikipidia it says sinatra accepted the role, but broke his wrist and had to pull out and it was paul newman, who had also declined, but suggested Clint... so my apologies on that one, but not on PMFM ;-)
bladrunner6 2 years ago
0:12 looks like the tower from daft punks videoclip "burning"
Bikendi100 2 years ago
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munbok 2 years ago
best action film of all time...i LOVE this movie!
ACTIONBlockbusters 2 years ago
O.J. SIMPSON?!!
powerbookg 2 years ago
Physics for future presidents is that the the WTC did not fall because of the airplanes nor the explosion, it was because of the fire and the heat of the fire and the physics behind the fire. The fire would most likely have cause the steel columns to buckle and weaken eventually collapsing on its own weight like in the WTC not like what happened in this movie.
mark24609 2 years ago
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mark24609 2 years ago
awsome film!
MeetMeInSanFRANCISCO 2 years ago
"The Towering Inferno" x 10
kisado 2 years ago 8
Great movie!! One of Paul Newman and Steve mcQueen's best!!
Angele101006 2 years ago 2
Um, no. Nowhere near Newman's best.
powerbookg 2 years ago
You may be right, but Paul Newman has so many great movies under his belt, it is hard to pick one! He is a classic and a legend who is sadly missed!
Angele101006 2 years ago
First trailer ever to have my full attention in the first 4 seconds. Thanks for posting it.
If you are interested, I have this movie on my channel
oldclassicmovies 2 years ago 2
This movie scared the crap out of me when I saw it on TV at age 10. You can see some holes in the special effects now (like the fire consistently burning on the same exterior floors throughout the movie), but for 35 years ago, this was a classic. Still is today.
notredamemike 2 years ago 4
THANKS FOR POSTING THIS LITTLE GEM, ONE OF MY FAVORITE FILMS OF ALL TIME. I AGREE ABOUT McQUEEN (RIP), WHO IN MY OPINION STOLE THE SHOW FROM NEWMAN (RIP). ANYONE KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY PLANS TO RELEASE THIS ON BLU-RAY?
MrBeach1963 2 years ago
It will be released on July 14th on Blu-Ray.
RadioactiveReviewsTV 2 years ago
mcqueen (rip) is the best actor of all time
he always steel the show
brandiiloveyou 2 years ago
same tragedy in Kuala lumpur , Malaysia on 8 april 1976.
Cromokzz 2 years ago
This is one of Steve McQueen's greatest movies. I could get lost in those beautiful, baby blue bedroom eyes of his. The other cast members were super as well.
Great movie!
Angele101006 2 years ago 3
What an incredible movie. Non-stop action, and disturbingly, non-stop deaths. Every 5 minutes, someone dies in a new and unique way. It's quite a roller coaster ride.
PleaseLikeMyComments 2 years ago
i loooooove this movie, i don't think the trailer does it justice
now that i think about it, the trailer does just enough to get you to want to go to the theatre
nighthawknina86 2 years ago
amen to that baby !!
gabbysuperstar 2 years ago
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Paul Newman should not have supported New Testament sinful gay rights. There is, BTW, a great new bio on him (Paul newman: the Dream has Ended) on him at amazon.
Bestmanme08 2 years ago
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If God didn't want gay s he wouldn't have created them.
DrGregoryHouseIT 2 years ago 15
Well done, good comeback!
billyb4223 2 years ago 2
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@DrGregoryHouseIT God didn't create gays. Since adam and eve ate that apple that they were not suppose to God put a curse on the earth, and the devil did his thing on making the earth more worse. He was even the one that create man on man relation, and other bad things.
afroman255 1 year ago
@afroman255
For the love of Tom Servo, WHEN WILL YOU BIGOTS STOP DEMONIZING GAY PEOPLE!!!
What did they DO to you people? Why can't you live your life without needs to tell others how to live theirs? It's people like you who give the Christian Religion a bad name.
And furthermore, why are you this obsessed with punishment? And why should love be considered as punishment?
DrGregoryHouseIT 1 year ago 26
@DrGregoryHouseIT
I agree and everything... but what the hell does that topic have to do with this film?
LtSurge659 10 months ago
@LtSurge659
You tell me. I only answered him with the truth.
DrGregoryHouseIT 9 months ago
@LtSurge659 After looking through pages and pages of comments, and knowing Paul Newman's track record with political affairs, I think it had to do with someone being angry that Newman advocated for gay rights. It was a year ago though, so some comments were probably deleted by now.
Tonsoszaliron 6 months ago
@DrGregoryHouseIT There are some great gay people elton john ,ellen degeneres and i know theres more but i forget who else
legomaxmania 5 months ago
@afroman255 Adam and Eve didn't exist.
Dudufrias 1 year ago
@Dudufrias why do you atheist all ruin peoples religious lives just leave them be
afroman255 1 year ago
@afroman255 I don't know, I'm not an atheist...
Dudufrias 1 year ago
@Dudufrias you should not tell people that their religion does not exist everybody has faith in something you got to believe in something you cant just going around telling people there is no god they will lose faith in something one question when you die where would you go?
afroman255 1 year ago
@afroman255 Stupid Flanders.
Dudufrias 1 year ago
@Dudufrias why are you making fun of religion
afroman255 1 year ago
@afroman255 lol
Dudufrias 1 year ago
@afroman255 The author Mark Twain once made the observation that prior to eating the forbidden fruit, Adam and Eve did not know the different between right and wrong, and therefore had no way of knowing that it was wrong to disobey God. The million dollar question is does this let them off the hook?
forexrobots212 1 year ago
@Bestmanme08
Relegious fail. BTW, a highest moral being, wouldn't won't himself to be worshipped by lesser being at the risk of going to hell.
SSTTEEAALLTTHH 1 year ago
@Bestmanme08 Get a grip , Paul newman had the right to support whatever he wanted , and anyway forget about his personal life and enjoy the mans amazing acting ability , he was brilliant .
I'm a straight man by the way but i have no problem with gay people , maybe your a little unsure of your own sexuality that's why you dislike gay people ?
Climberk9 1 year ago
I didn't know O.J Simpson was in this movie.
Linkinparkll 2 years ago
"More suspense than you've ever seen in one motion picture..."
MmmK.
I wonder why disaster films were so popular in the 70's ?
JoshuaTaylor 2 years ago
This is why it dosen't pay to live in a high-rise.
ForEverSnoopy 2 years ago
Steve McQueen owned this movie even better than Paul Newman and I looove Paul Newman too. Two of my favorite guys.
Tigerlily21 2 years ago
I liked this movie but I can't believe it was Nominated for Best Picture .
zwayd 2 years ago
You know, this is the only trailer to sell me in it's first 5 seconds..
ZombieDolphinFilms 2 years ago
I LOVE THIS MOVIE!
deedeelight5 2 years ago
I saw TTI in 74, we went to see Herbie and the love bug ..and just sat there after it was over..people started filing in..next thing you know TTI started..it wasn't intentional,but we had stay and watch it ,to me this movie was big time .. I was 9. ..after we discovered how easy it was to remain in the theater until the next show,I saw Stepford Wives, and A star is born,(Streisand/Kristofferson)
in the same way..other times.
tjfreak 2 years ago
this is kinda hard to watch after 9/11
mooveefreak 2 years ago
It was a coincidence but in 1974 a fire happened in São Paulo just like that. Electrical problems in the air conditioner sytem led a fire that consumed all floors. Hundreds died and firemen had problems to extinguish the fire. They had to leave the building burning and rescue people that were in the roof top.
clebermaximo 2 years ago
Not just the greatest disaster film ever made but one of the greatest films of all time. Should have been called Towering Dinners though because after all, William Holden did say to the guests "I promise you, dinner will not be delayed." As far as I know the guests never got their dinners, and apart from the hellish inferno that was eating up his building, I want to know why everyone's dinners were delayed!
Bowlsey25 2 years ago
That's all good and well, but what I want to know is why we never get even a glance at...."THE CONTINENTAL ROOM!" Holden tells everyone that the party will decamp to "THE CONTINENTAL ROOM" (safely located on the ground floor)...but do we ever get to SEE it? No! But I can see it in my mind's eye....and it's GLORIOUS (complete with Burt Bacharach/Sergio Mendes inspired band and maybe even some Tiki mugs).
AmandaHallay 2 years ago 2
I was 10 when this movie was out, and I think that was the last time I saw it...until watching it on DVD last nigt. Truly an epic, the best ot the disaster-movie genre by far IMHHO. Impressive cast and amazing special effetcs, done long before computer-graphics and simulations, all with miniatures and live-action fire scenes, etc.
atlmuscleman 2 years ago
It didn't collapse into his own footprints at freefall speed? Otherwise, entertaining movie.
mariethibaut 3 years ago
My uncle was a stand in as one of the firefighters in this movie..RIP Uncle Louis!
NinerPoolGirl 3 years ago 3
One of the BEST disaster movies Ever Made with an all star Cast,the best.
skyhighwhite 3 years ago
Yes it is ! Great, Great, Movie.