The Towering Inferno (1974) [PG]

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

One tiny spark becomes a night of blazing suspense.

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
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Julius LeFlore
Paul Newman
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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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