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The Towering Inferno was released theatrically December 16, 1974. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and earned around $203.3 million, making it the highest-grossing film of 1974. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning three: Best Song, Best Cinematography and Best Editing.
He looked for an alternative and found a similar story in The Glass Inferno. Rather than produce competing movies, 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros. agreed to coproduce The Towering Inferno with a script based on both novels and a $14 million budget. It was the first time two major studios made a film together, splitting the costs.
The Tower is a 1973 novel by Richard Martin Stern.It is one of the two books drawn upon for the screenplay Stirling Silliphant wrote for the 1974 movie The Towering Inferno, the other being the 1974 novel The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson.
Highest-grossing films of 1974 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Blazing Saddles: Warner Bros. $119,500,000 2 The Towering Inferno: 20th Century Fox / Warner Bros. $116,000,000 3 The Trial of Billy Jack: Warner Bros. $89,000,000 4 Young Frankenstein: 20th Century Fox $86,300,000 5 Earthquake: Universal: $79,700,000 6 The Godfather Part II ...
Towering Inferno may refer to: The Towering Inferno , 1974 disaster movie Towering Inferno (band) , an English experimental music group which released the 1993 album Kaddish
Koenekamp worked with Fox and director John Guillermin for 1974 action-drama disaster film The Towering Inferno. Fred worked with cinematographer Joseph Biroc on the film, and the two would win their first Academy Award for Best Cinematography. [6] Koenekamp and Biroc would go on to work on four more features together. [5]
"We May Never Love Like This Again" is a song written by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn for the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno. [1] It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and was performed by Maureen McGovern both for the film score and, briefly, in the film itself with McGovern portraying a singer.
Don Gordon (born Donald Walter Guadagno; November 13, 1926 – April 24, 2017) [3] was an American film and television actor.His most notable film roles were those in which he appeared alongside his friend Steve McQueen: Bullitt (1968), Papillon (1973) and The Towering Inferno (1974).