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Release Date:
December 14, 1974
Original Title:
The Towering Inferno
Alternate Titles:
El coloso en llamas
L'Inferno di cristallo
火烧摩天楼
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:
Frank V. Phillips
Joseph F. Biroc
Art Direction:
Ward Preston
Assistant Art Director:
Steven P. Sardanis
Assistant Director:
Wes McAfee
Newt Arnold
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:
Harold F. Kress
Carl Kress
Gaffer:
Gene Stout
Hairstylist:
Naomi Cavin
Jean Burt Reilly
Susan Germaine
Key Grip:
John Murray
Makeup Artist:
Monty Westmore
Emile LaVigne
Mechanical Designer:
Gerald Endler
Negative Cutter:
Jack Hooper
Novel:
Richard Martin Stern
Thomas N. Scortia
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:
Nikita Knatz
Joseph Musso
Tom Cranham
Dan Goozee
Production Supervisor:
Jere Henshaw
Richard Shepherd
Property Master:
Robert McLaughlin
Scoring Mixer:
Ted Keep
Screenplay:
Stirling Silliphant
Script Supervisor:
Marie Kenney
Second Assistant Director:
Phil Ball
Bob Bender
Donald White
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:
James Winburn
Vince Deadrick Sr.
Fred Lerner
Larry Holt
Walter Robles
Russell Saunders
Erik Cord
Roger Creed
Roydon Clark
Stephanie Epper
Diamond Farnsworth
Frank Reinhard
Glenn Randall Jr.
George Robotham
Bobby Porter
Glynn Rubin
Shelley Snell
Gene LeBell
John Nowak
Peter Stader
Jack Verbois
Mickey Caruso
Dick Dial
Howard Curtis
Bennie E. Dobbins
Eddie Hice
Loren Janes
Fred Scheiwiller
Paula Crist
Regis Parton
Gil Perkins
Robert Renegade Renneke
M. James Arnett
Dar Robinson
Paul Stader
Bob Terhune
Bruce Paul Barbour
Richard E. Butler
Larry Duran
Steve McQueen
Thomas Rosales Jr.
Wally Rose
Phil Adams
Gary Epper
George Fisher
John Hugh McKnight
Julius LeFlore
Paul Newman
Cody Bearpaw
Dick Crockett
Lila Finn
James W. Gavin
Kevin N. Johnston
Victor Paul
David Sharpe
Tony Brubaker
Everett Creach
Lars Lundgren
Frank Orsatti
Preston Peterson
Hank Calia
Lightning Bear
Sandra Lee Gimpel
Denver Mattson
Paula Dell
Tony Epper
Mickey Gilbert
Orwin C. Harvey
Minor Mustain
John Moio
Nick Dimitri
Doug O'Dell II
Regina Parton
Felix Silla
Dean Smith
Troy Melton
Jeannie Epper
Marilyn Stader
Fred Zendar
Bob Yerkes
Fred Waugh
Richard Washington
Chuck Waters
Tom Steele
George P. Wilbur
Ernie F. Orsatti
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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