unveiled in theaters what would become a landmark disaster movie ... The Towering Inferno‘s appeal lies entirely in immediate visceral reactions. So, like Cecil B. DeMille before him, Irwin ...

The Towering Inferno takes the better part of an hour before the plot literally heats up, but the disaster was the prime attraction for this movie. People came to the theater to watch the building ...

The Towering Inferno' was the most popular film of 1974 ... and almost every other so-called "disaster film" before and after, in that human skullduggery was at the bottom of everything, In ...