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Pages in category "1970s disaster films" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Airport '77;
This list of disaster films represents over half a century of films within the genre. Disaster films are motion pictures which depict an impending or ongoing disaster as a central plot feature. The films typically feature large casts and multiple storylines and focus on the protagonists attempts to avert, escape, or cope with the disaster ...
The film is in the vein of other all-star disaster films of the early through mid-1970s, such as Airport (1970), Earthquake (1974), and The Towering Inferno (1974). It was released in December 1972 and was the highest-grossing film of 1973, earning over $125 million worldwide.
While the movies it spoofs rank higher on this list, surely you can't leave out this pitch-perfect comedy sending up Hollywood's 1970s disaster-flick golden era. ( Don't call me Shirley.
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970) Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) No Blade of Grass (1970) Gas-s-s-s (1970) The Andromeda Strain (1971) Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) The Omega Man (1971) Glen and Randa (1971) Beware! The Blob (1972) A Thief in the Night (1972) Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) A Distant Thunder (1972 ...
Disaster movies have been around for nearly as long as movies have (the arguable first was a 1901 four-minute-long short called Fire!—it’s about a fire), but the ‘70s was the first true ...
The first Airport film from 1970 has been praised for the film's influence on the disaster genre and its "camp value". [1] However, the movie's star, Burt Lancaster, said in a 1971 reaction to its ten Academy Award nominations that the film was "the biggest piece of junk ever made." [2] [3]
A disaster film or disaster movie is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject and ... Arguably the greatest of the 1970s disaster films, ...