I love both as well and even like When Time Ran Out

Have them bote on dvd 👍

And Earthquake.

I grew up in the era these were released. My favorites, Towering Inferno, Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, The Swarm, Meteor and Avalanche (especially the MST3K version 😂). There were also a few made for tv flicks like Flood!, A Fire In The Sky and Condominium.

Poseidon much the best.

I did the same thing with Backdraft

Tim Paszkiewicz, LOL! When I grew up in the 70's our neighbor and friend was a Captain for American Airlines. Try watching 'disaster in the sky' movies with someone like him...LOL. We watched Airport 75 together, he kept saying, "That would never happen".

@@jasona9 Yes but what did he say during that horrifying air disaster classic, Airplane!

I love it when professionals see movies based on their career and they critique. My uncle is a retired general and anytime we see anything wit the military he blast it. LOL

I'll have to admit it myself. When I became a cop. I do the same thing.

Agreed! i grew up in the 70s so was 4 yrs old when this and the other disaster movies were made .. but allway remember as a kid back when i was prob 7 or 8 years old this , posidon adventure, earthquake ect being shown on the bbc ect every christmas along with the wiz of oz! ( usualy christmas eve as the BIG film) ...these days itv and bbc Never show any of the old classic films like they used to ...not even any of the older films before the 70s now ,...i actualy tune into TCM and vintage tv now to see these classic films when they are on ..makes me sad tbh as bbc and itv are missing out on viewers that want to see these films still ..nowt wrong with a bit of nostalgia ect even though as my mum would say they are that old they got hairs on them and then went bald pmsl! ..NOW SKY MOVIES.. thats a totaly diffrent kettle of fish ....there are only so many times you can sit and watch a dedicated film channel to a franchise ....i mean how many times have they done harry potter channel , or star wars ect ...it seams like sky churn those out evry couple of months ect! ..oh and as for the remake of the posidon adventure ( not the 2 part tv one which was abismal ) but the film posidon with kurt russel that brought it up to date ....it was ok but not a patch on the original!

@tinMan. What do ya' mean absolutely terrified for years, after you were a kid?? I STILL, am!!! Do not go in buildings, over 4 stories, tall!! Why? This movie 🎞️, is WHY (but it's a good, thing 👍)!!!

I saw this one when I was 10 yrs old, at the cinema, and fell totally in love with Susan Flannery! :D In that absolutely horrific scene with Robert Wagner ... was she beautiful

Agreed, but they scared me half to death when they came out. Interesting to watch them now....almost 50 years on.

true

David Hammond probably because they have an actual plot, not just random events with shitloads of CGI thrown at it

You took the words out of my mouth. Mega film and a mega cast. Say no more.

Video game graphics add nothing to a movie. CGI is a Joke.

I was 7 when I saw it in 1974. Best movie I had ever seen.

Me too. Im 48 and i still watch it over and over.

Still scares me as an adult

HMMMMM

Excellent point.

@John Harrison - The truth is stranger than fiction😓

How Ironic!

How eerie is that damn ...

A personal irony for me. I saw the Towering Inferno on December 31, 1974 at a theatre in Times Square (first show of the day, long before all the New Year's Eve folks got there). Following that, I took the subway and went by the Twin Towers for the first time (previously, I had just seen them from a distance, and I was living out of town when they were completed). That's when I found out that they were offset diagonally. from a distance, they looked like they were parallel.

yep hollyweird does tell the truth now and then.

It had a one in 365 chance of occurring. Not strange at all. I would buy a lotto ticket now and then if I could get those odds. Best wishes everyone. 🌲🌝☘️

There are no coincidences

@@connorshaw2618 Who says?

50th Anniversary in 2024. Timeless movie

Richard Vinsen better than Capricorn one?

@@Thecrazyvaclav I LOVE that movie.

And he rescued the cat, so he can't be all bad.

Preach

Is he still in prison ?

less options.

McQueen and Newman had co-top billing. They were so territorial that they insisted on each having exactly the same number of lines of dialog.

@@williamwingo4740 And also they were almost starring together in the classic western Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid (1969), but McQueen left the project.

Strangely enough, the towering inferno fineshed shooting on September 11, 1974.

In _The Poseidon Adventure,_ you hear the voice of Renée Armand singing, with Carol Lynley lip-syncing. Maureen McGovern's chart-topping single "The Morning After" isn't actually in the movie. That Academy Award winning song is written by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn. Armand's performance was finally released on a limited-edition CD of the soundtrack years later, and can be heard elsewhere on this platform. Producer Irwin Allen hired Kasha and Hirschhorn to write the song from _The Towering Inferno,_ and he featured Maureen McGovern herself singing it for the party scene. That effort produced another Academy Award for Best Song, but "We May Never Love Like This Again" did not perform as well on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

I've heard about that before.

or the big buss, remember that one.

@@curtbilyeu8701 No. I grew up in the time period though so I’m surprised I have never heard it mentioned before. I’m definitely going to have to give that a watch.

@@curtbilyeu8701 "There have been Movies about Big Earthquakes . . . There have been Movies about Big Boats sinking . . . Movies about Big Buildings burning . . . Movies about Big German Balloons busting . . . And now a Movie about . . . " Great movie [1]. Cast included Jose Ferrer, Sally Kellerman, Richard Mulligan, Ruth Gordon, Larry Hagman, and Lynn Redgrave. And in the movie "Drive-In" (also 1976, but with an almost completely unknown cast) [2], the movie shown at the drive-in is a conglomeration of disaster movies entitled "Disaster 76," complete with airplanes, earthquakes, capsized ocean liners, and sharks. "Of course there aren't any stairs. What idiot's goin' to climb up 125 flights?" 1. www.imdb.com/title/tt0074205/ 2. www.imdb.com/title/tt0074433/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

"How do I get back down?"....(silence).."Oh shit!"

Cannot agree more my mother had a thing for Richard Chamberlain she was gutted and always put her hands over her ears when he fell off the chair lift even though he was the bad guy.

Me too this is my favourite it's gripping all the way through, the fireman going head head first down the elevator shaft always makes me jump.

@@gina7288 I could not believe he was quiet on the way down I did say to my wife that I would be screaming my head off if I was him.

@@georgie1246 I always look away at that point and yes I was surprised he wasn't screaming, on fire and falling that far but I do enjoy the old disaster movies.

Me too but I still think Poseidon adventure is a better / fun movie to watch. This one is too true as we all learned.

No, that was Earthquake that had Sensurround. Sensurround was exclusive to Universal Pictures movies, and of course The Towering Inferno was Warner Bros./20th Century joint venture.

@@transitfan954 ah, ok, thank you, I wasn’t sure, ooh, that must have been hard for them to join in on the disaster movie trend and not be able to use the sensurround system. Most early sound systems couldn’t even do sub bass back then, could they?

I've always noticed that but you're the first one I've ever known to have made the same observation!

@@bkynbiker19 In every kind of thing, there are always others on the same page. We don't always have the opportunity to notice, however. There are always others not on the same page as well! John Williams has written some of my absolute favorite melodies. The _Superman_ main title is probably at the top of the list.

@@misterlyle. I'm partial to his Poseidon Adventure soundtrack myself

I can hear shades of the Towering Inferno score in his work for The Witches of Eastwick.

@@PungiFungi Thank you for pointing out John Williams' soundtrack for that movie! Conveniently, the whole soundtrack is available here. Some of the themes could easily be interchangeable with tracks from the Towering Inferno! I also notice a strong similarity to some of his music in _E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial._

I seen that film after I read the book"The Glass Inferno" back around December 1974.That scene had a bad effect on me since I was a little kid.I never wanted to see that film again. And I never saw it again. The Jennifer Jones character survives in the book.A very strong super heroine in the book. Sorry but I prefer the book better.I pass on the movie.

@@montygreen6228 I still find that scene disturbing every time I watch it.

@@evertonporter7887 I only seen that movie once.I don't have the heart to see it again.That sweet lady falling to her death completely turned me off to the movie.I refused to watch it again for that reason.

Spread the word! ;)

Very very true, it's not about people, it's about money🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

What with all the dodgy happenings on the day itself, it makes one wonder if this was an inside message of some kind.

On Sept 11 a number of events have happened in history (mostly WAR events): in 2012 the controversial attacks on the US Diplomatic Compounds in Benghazi, Libya in 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement begins in 2007 Russia Tests Father of All Bombs in 1973 Pinochet led a coup d'état, overthrowing the government of President Salvador Allende of Chile in 1885 The Siege of Sevastopol ended the Crimean War in 1814 U.S. naval forces defeated a larger British force at the Battle of Lake Champlain during the War of 1812 in 1777 British forces defeated the US at the Battle of the Brandywine during the American Revolution in 1709 The duke of Marlborough led a British army of 100,000 men against a French army of 90,000 at the Battle of Malplaquet in the War of the Spanish Succession in 1697 Austrian forces won a decisive victory over an Ottoman army at the Battle of Zenta ... interesting how WAR seems to be an influence on this date!!!

@@mondomacabromajor5731 Yes, but this was a movie about a skyscraper on fire. The movie was also based on the WTC.

@@mondomacabromajor5731 "controversial attacks on the US Diplomatic Compounds" That's a strange way of describing a terrorist attack which included the murder of the US ambassador to Libya.

@@white-dragon4424 the Sept 11 date was the topic of conversation ...

This movie, and The Posidon Adventure was Irvin Allen at his peak.

I'm reading both books. The Tower, and The glass inferno

@@taraelizabethdensley9475 My wife has just read the Tower which made us watch this on DVD on Saturday its still a classic movie with bits that make even me cringe lol

Correct - they learned from the early 60s experience when competing studios each made a movie about Jean Harlowe, and neither succeeded at the box office

I remember NBC showing it over two nights Sunday and Monday, I believe.