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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:
Carl Kress
Harold F. Kress
Gaffer:
Gene Stout
Hairstylist:
Jean Burt Reilly
Susan Germaine
Naomi Cavin
Key Grip:
John Murray
Makeup Artist:
Monty Westmore
Emile LaVigne
Mechanical Designer:
Gerald Endler
Negative Cutter:
Jack Hooper
Novel:
Richard Martin Stern
Frank M. Robinson
Thomas N. Scortia
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
Dan Goozee
Tom Cranham
Production Supervisor:
Richard Shepherd
Jere Henshaw
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:
Joel Hirschhorn
Al Kasha
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
Roydon Clark
Lars Lundgren
John Nowak
Regis Parton
Wally Rose
Felix Silla
Peter Stader
Paula Dell
Bennie E. Dobbins
Bobby Porter
Tom Steele
M. James Arnett
Howard Curtis
Eddie Hice
Hank Calia
Richard E. Butler
Loren Janes
Fred Lerner
Steve McQueen
Julius LeFlore
Walter Robles
Fred Waugh
Russell Saunders
Mickey Gilbert
Orwin C. Harvey
Troy Melton
Frank Reinhard
Paul Stader
Chuck Waters
Cody Bearpaw
Mickey Caruso
Dick Dial
Larry Duran
Stephanie Epper
Sandra Lee Gimpel
Denver Mattson
Glenn Randall Jr.
Erik Cord
Everett Creach
Vince Deadrick Sr.
George Fisher
John Hugh McKnight
Larry Holt
Regina Parton
Diamond Farnsworth
George Robotham
Glynn Rubin
Shelley Snell
Paula Crist
Kevin N. Johnston
Fred Scheiwiller
George P. Wilbur
Jeannie Epper
Tony Brubaker
Lightning Bear
Nick Dimitri
Preston Peterson
Jack Verbois
Bruce Paul Barbour
Gary Epper
Roger Creed
Doug O'Dell II
Frank Orsatti
Dar Robinson
Dean Smith
Marilyn Stader
Phil Adams
Dick Crockett
Gene LeBell
Victor Paul
Thomas Rosales Jr.
David Sharpe
Tony Epper
Lila Finn
James W. Gavin
Minor Mustain
John Moio
Gil Perkins
Robert Renegade Renneke
Bob Terhune
Paul Newman
Richard Washington
Fred Zendar
Bob Yerkes
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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