TOWERING INFERNO TV
We also get TV stars of the ’60s (Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner and Richard Chamberlain), along with one from the ’70s: Bobby Brady himself, Mike Lookinland, acting in scenes with Newman and Dunaway. 1970s: dishy newbie Susan Blakely and everyone’s favorite football player O.J.1960s: Our headliners: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway.1950s: William Holden as the movie’s developer-villain, but apparently the nicest guy on the set.1940s: Jennifer Jones, looking shellacked by plastic surgery it’s her last film.1930s: Fred Astaire, loose and athletic at 75.Every decade after the silents is represented: The key is to mix old-timers and up-and-comers with current stars. Here it’s fire, there Gavin MacLeod.Īs All-Star casts go, this one is pretty tight. It’s like what “Love Boat” would become: different people come on board with their own little micro-dramas, then disaster strikes. “Inferno” was the last thing I wanted to see.įorty years later, though, I was curious. Particularly “Towering Inferno.” Planes and upside-down boats were one thing, but fire? The Fire Safety Program in 5th grade made me terrified enough. Maybe I caught bits when they showed up on “edited-for-television” TV, but I don’t think I sat through any of them. 1.)Īs a teenager in the 1970s, I didn’t see any of these disaster flicks.
TOWERING INFERNO MOVIE
1 movie of 1974, but that’s only because the money it earned during a 2013 re-release. (* Box Office Mojo now lists “Blazing Saddles” as the No. 4 in 1974), and “The Swarm” (died at the box office). “The Towering Inferno”? Part of that Irwin-Allen-produced, All-Star Cast, disaster flick era, with “Airport” (No. We still watch those, own those, discuss those. 1 movies surrounding it chronologically are still regarded as, you know, pretty fucking good: “The Godfather” in 1972, “Exorcist” in ’73, “Jaws” in ’75. On some level, this one feels more unforgiveable, since the No. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999).It’s so much more fun pointing fingers.īut if we were going to have such a discussion, the list would surely include the following: The former indicts the Academy, the latter all of us. People often talk about the worst best picture Oscar winners of all time- I’m often one of them-but rarely do we get a discussion of the worst No.
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