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Release Date:
December 14, 1974
Original Title:
The Towering Inferno
Alternate Titles:
El coloso en llamas
L'Inferno di cristallo
Genres:
Action | Drama | Thriller
Production Companies:
20th Century Fox
Irwin Allen Productions
Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
AU: PG BR: 14 DE: 16 FR: U GB: 15 HU: 16 IE: PG JP: R15+ NL: 12 PT: M/16 SE: 15 US: PG
Runtime: 165
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
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Action Director:
Irwin Allen
Additional Photography:
Joseph F. Biroc
Frank V. Phillips
Art Direction:
Ward Preston
Assistant Art Director:
Steven P. Sardanis
Assistant Director:
Newt Arnold
Wes McAfee
Associate Producer:
Sidney Marshall
Camera Operator:
Thomas Laughridge
Casting:
Jack Baur
Costume Design:
Paul Zastupnevich
Costumer:
Hugh McFarland
Kathleen McCandless
Director:
John Guillermin
Director of Photography:
Fred J. Koenekamp
Editor:
Carl Kress
Harold F. Kress
Gaffer:
Gene Stout
Hairstylist:
Jean Burt Reilly
Susan Germaine
Naomi Cavin
Key Grip:
John Murray
Makeup Artist:
Emile LaVigne
Monty Westmore
Mechanical Designer:
Gerald Endler
Negative Cutter:
Jack Hooper
Novel:
Thomas N. Scortia
Richard Martin Stern
Frank M. Robinson
Orchestrator:
Herbert W. Spencer
Original Music Composer:
John Williams
Producer:
Irwin Allen
Production Controller:
George Leslie
Production Coordinator:
Art Volpert
Production Design:
William J. Creber
Production Illustrator:
Tom Cranham
Joseph Musso
Dan Goozee
Nikita Knatz
Production Supervisor:
Jere Henshaw
Richard Shepherd
Property Master:
Robert McLaughlin
Scoring Mixer:
Ted Keep
Screenplay:
Stirling Silliphant
Script Supervisor:
Marie Kenney
Second Assistant Director:
Bob Bender
Donald White
Phil Ball
Set Decoration:
Raphael Bretton
Songs:
Al Kasha
Joel Hirschhorn
Sound Mixer:
Frank Regula
Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Theodore Soderberg
Sound Supervisor:
John A. Bonner
Special Effects:
Johnny Borgese
Still Photographer:
Kathy Fields
Orlando Suero
Stunt Coordinator:
Paul Stader
Stunts:
Ernie F. Orsatti
James Winburn
Bruce Paul Barbour
M. James Arnett
Hank Calia
Erik Cord
Tony Brubaker
Richard E. Butler
Phil Adams
Cody Bearpaw
Paula Crist
Roger Creed
Dick Crockett
Roydon Clark
Mickey Caruso
Everett Creach
Lightning Bear
Vince Deadrick Sr.
Dick Dial
Paula Dell
Howard Curtis
Larry Duran
Nick Dimitri
Bennie E. Dobbins
Jeannie Epper
Stephanie Epper
Gary Epper
Tony Epper
Lila Finn
Diamond Farnsworth
Mickey Gilbert
George Fisher
James W. Gavin
Orwin C. Harvey
Eddie Hice
Sandra Lee Gimpel
Loren Janes
Fred Lerner
John Hugh McKnight
Steve McQueen
Lars Lundgren
Denver Mattson
Gene LeBell
Julius LeFlore
Kevin N. Johnston
Larry Holt
Minor Mustain
John Moio
Troy Melton
John Nowak
Paul Newman
Doug O'Dell II
Frank Orsatti
Regis Parton
Regina Parton
Victor Paul
Gil Perkins
Bobby Porter
Preston Peterson
Frank Reinhard
Dar Robinson
Glenn Randall Jr.
Walter Robles
Robert Renegade Renneke
Thomas Rosales Jr.
Wally Rose
George Robotham
Glynn Rubin
Russell Saunders
Fred Scheiwiller
David Sharpe
Felix Silla
Dean Smith
Marilyn Stader
Paul Stader
Peter Stader
Shelley Snell
Bob Terhune
Jack Verbois
Tom Steele
Chuck Waters
Richard Washington
Fred Waugh
George P. Wilbur
Fred Zendar
Bob Yerkes
Supervising Music Editor:
Leonard A. Engel
Supervising Sound Editor:
Don Hall
Unit Production Manager:
Norman A. Cook
Unit Publicist:
Don Morgan
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