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The Towering Inferno 165 minutes, USA (1974), 15
Average user rating (4.7 / 23 votes)
The Towering Inferno

Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire and OJ Simpson are just some of the 1970s superstars trapped in a burning skyscraper.

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The Towering Inferno: The towering achievement of director Irwin 'Master of Disaster' Allen's career - with a budget so big that it required funds from both Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Brothers - and made to a formula of which he never tired. You know the one. Stick a mixed cast of mainlining stars and doddery but well-loved old-timers in a confined space, and put them though merry hell...
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