With a $14 million budget — the most expensive film to date — The Towering Inferno was so huge that it became the first joint production between Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox. The plot ...

The Towering Inferno, poster, US advance poster art, top from left: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye ... [+] Dunaway; bottom from left: Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain ...

turning the building into an inferno before it fell down. Dramatic pictures tweeted by the fire service showed flames shooting up the sides of the whole tower, moments before it was reduced to a ...

Directed by John Guillermin and produced by Irwin Allen, The Towering Inferno remains a classic example of the disaster genre, blending suspense, action and human drama into a thrilling spectacle ...

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Many of the firefighters who fought the Grenfell Tower inferno believed they were going to die. In an age where serious fires have become rarer, this was a disaster way beyond their daily experience.

Doug Roberts, architect, returns from a long vacation to find work nearly completed on his skyscraper. He goes to the party that night concerned he's found that his wiring specifications have not ...