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The Towering Inferno

We just don't talk about it enough.

Or the fact that it was adapted two books, "The Tower" and "The Glass Inferno." (And when they put the two titles together, they got...)

Or the fact that in the movie Faye gets to wear the best dress evder to appear in a 70s film: "... and Faye Dunaway manages to look goddessy-beautiful through it all, wandering through the chaos in puce see-through chiffon" (Pauline Kael).

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by Anonymousreply 37June 3, 2025 11:17 PM

[quote] We just don't talk about it enough.

From November.

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by Anonymousreply 1June 3, 2025 5:24 AM

From August.

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by Anonymousreply 2June 3, 2025 5:25 AM

The film seems endless. Dunaway and Newman have no chemistry whatsoever in the opening scenes and it takes about 45 minutes for the action to actually get started.

by Anonymousreply 3June 3, 2025 5:25 AM

From April 2023. 411 posts.

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by Anonymousreply 4June 3, 2025 5:25 AM

July 2021 thread. 602 posts.

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by Anonymousreply 5June 3, 2025 5:26 AM

Part 2 of the July 2021 thread.

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by Anonymousreply 6June 3, 2025 5:27 AM

To be tired of discussing this movie would be to be tired of life, the Thread Nazi notwithstanding.

by Anonymousreply 7June 3, 2025 5:27 AM

Susan Flannery caught dead with a man.

Only in the movies kids.

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by Anonymousreply 8June 3, 2025 5:41 AM

Irwin Allen loved nasty gruesome deaths for his women. Susan Flannery and Jennifer Jones in Inferno...Stella Stevens in Poseidon...

And, Olivia Olivia de Havilland's acting reputation permanently destroyed in The Swarm.

by Anonymousreply 9June 3, 2025 7:39 AM

Glossy disaster at its best. Amusing to recall the UN-type negotiations about billing status between McQueen and Newman.

by Anonymousreply 10June 3, 2025 7:43 AM

It was a 4 way nightmare because Holden and Dunaway had over the title billing, too.

I love this poster...all the women are billed by their character's relationship to men...

"The Girlfriend"

"The Wife"

"The Widow"

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by Anonymousreply 11June 3, 2025 7:56 AM

Is that Orenthal James?

by Anonymousreply 12June 3, 2025 8:33 AM

Why did Faye get head demoted?

by Anonymousreply 13June 3, 2025 8:35 AM

[quote]We just don't talk about it enough.

I was going to comment on how often this movie is discussed but then I saw R1, R2, R4, R5, R6 had beaten me to it! And good.

by Anonymousreply 14June 3, 2025 9:29 AM

YEEOUCH!

by Anonymousreply 15June 3, 2025 11:05 AM

It's a long boring movie.

by Anonymousreply 16June 3, 2025 11:17 AM

I am too, but I grew up at a time when things were “interesting” too, riots, wars that caused domestic strife. A corrupt president

by Anonymousreply 17June 3, 2025 12:32 PM

It was a fun film-Fire-Faye and Shelia Matthew’s.

by Anonymousreply 18June 3, 2025 1:47 PM

Flannery was willing to do anything to be in a moving picture-Even Robert Wagner.

by Anonymousreply 19June 3, 2025 1:50 PM

The way they had Jennifer Jones bouncing and twirling off of the wall of the building after she fell out of the outside. elevator was so wrong.😂

by Anonymousreply 20June 3, 2025 1:52 PM

^ That would be Susan Flannery, the biggest butchiest bull dyke in Hollywood.

by Anonymousreply 21June 3, 2025 1:52 PM

Susan Blakely was an attractive woman and had a successful career as a fashion model. But, next to Faye Dunaway, she was chopped liver.

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by Anonymousreply 22June 3, 2025 5:19 PM

[quote]Or the fact that it was adapted two books

That has indeed been discussed, OP.

by Anonymousreply 23June 3, 2025 5:58 PM

[quote]That would be Susan Flannery, the biggest butchiest bull dyke in Hollywood.

But Susan didn't look like a butch bull dyke in 1975. She does now, but in 1975, she was svelte.

by Anonymousreply 24June 3, 2025 6:05 PM

Lots of handsome men in this movie, but Robert Wagner was the hottest to me.

by Anonymousreply 25June 3, 2025 6:06 PM

[quote] The way they had Jennifer Jones bouncing and twirling off of the wall of the building after she fell out of the outside. elevator was so wrong.😂

They apparently weren't expecting that when they set up the model shot, but it was so expensive they didn't want to repeat doing it again.

It is the most memorable part if the entire movie.

by Anonymousreply 26June 3, 2025 6:07 PM

I only cared that the CAT, Fred and Paul survived the inferno.

by Anonymousreply 27June 3, 2025 7:04 PM

I LOVE the actress who did her audition for the Fame movie by doing "OJ Simpson waiting for the elevator" in The Towering Inferno.

by Anonymousreply 28June 3, 2025 7:13 PM

Bobby Brady’s attempt to move into movies.

by Anonymousreply 29June 3, 2025 7:14 PM

The dialogue sparkled!

James Duncan: Just how bad is it? Chief O'Hallorhan: It's a fire. All fires are bad.

Doug Roberts: Hey Dunc, if that fire was caused by kooky wiring, we could have fires breaking out everywhere.

Dan Bigelow: I'll be back, with the whole fire department.

by Anonymousreply 30June 3, 2025 7:31 PM

SCTV takes on The Towering Inferno in a very special Movie of the Week.

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by Anonymousreply 31June 3, 2025 7:38 PM

Inferno does start to drag towards the end but there's stuff to like. McQueen is great here...he really anchors the film. Jennifer Jones is adorable; I wish she had done some more (and better) films in her Golden Years. I like the Mayor and his wife (Sheila Allen). Richard Chamberlain was fun as the cunty villain.

My favorite bad scene: the two stupid women who run towards the helicopter on the roof which somehow causes the helicopter to explode. And, the hardened cement blocking one of the fire doors that no one apparently noticed.

Oh, and my favorite line: McQueen asking if there are any ping pong ball factories in the building!

And, they really needed to punish William Holden more. They should have let him survive but killed his daughter. That, or had a deranged survivor shoot him for building such a deathtrap building. Maybe Fred Astaire could have pulled the trigger in revenge for the death of Lieslotte.

by Anonymousreply 32June 3, 2025 10:15 PM

R24 But even back then Susan Flannery was still totally butch. It was ridiculous when they had JR Ewing chasing after this dyke.

by Anonymousreply 33June 3, 2025 10:19 PM

Richard Chamberlain's eyebrows were given an evil shape.

by Anonymousreply 34June 3, 2025 10:21 PM

I thought Susan looked lovely in Dallas.

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by Anonymousreply 35June 3, 2025 10:45 PM

R35 But Susan had a butch, domineering presence on Dallas too. Yes, she was attractive but JR always went for the girly types so I just wasn't buying him having the hots for her.

by Anonymousreply 36June 3, 2025 10:50 PM

R26, I didn’t know that.

I thought Fred still was very good and gave a performance that was worthy of his best supporting actor nomination, especially in the scene when he found out about his girlfriend's death.

by Anonymousreply 37June 3, 2025 11:17 PM
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