Jennifer Jones' role of 'Lisolette Mueller', her last before retiring from acting, was originally offered to Olivia de Havilland. She would later become Irwin Allen's wife and remained so until his death in 1991. Small parts played by actors who appeared in The Poseidon Adventure, which Irwin Allen also produced, include John Crawford, Erik Nelson, Elizabeth Rogers, Ernie Orsatti, and Sheila Matthews, who played the mayor's wife 'Paula Ramsay'. William Creber is credited as Production Designer of the film and under his direction, Dan Goozee from the Fox art department designed the final look of the Glass Tower itself. At the end of filming of principal photography on Septemonly eight of those 57 sets were left standing. The 57 sets and four camera crews were records for a single film on the Twentieth Century Fox lot. In The Glass Inferno, an electrical spark sets the janitor's closet in a 60-story tower on fire the escape from the top floor is by helicopter, and everyone left in the restaurant escapes.
More than a hundred partygoers die in the restaurant on the top floor. In The Tower, a bomb in the utility room of a 150-floor tower (the world's tallest) causes a power surge which sets a janitor's closet on fire the escape from the top floor is by breeches buoy to the adjacent 110-story North Tower of the World Trade Center, and is only partially successful. Silliphant took seven characters from each and combined the plots. Stirling Silliphant, who won an Oscar for his adaptation of In the Heat of the Night, combined the novels into a single screenplay. would distribute the film in all foreign territories around the world. 20th Century Fox had the United States domestic box office receipts while Warner Bros. Each studio paid half the production costs. The productions were combined, with a budget of $14 million ($58 million adjusted for inflation 1974-2005).
Eight weeks later, Irwin Allen discovered another novel, The Glass Inferno, and bought the rights for $400,000 for 20th Century Fox. bought the rights to The Tower for $390,000. Robinson, and was directed by John Guillermin, with Allen himself directing the action sequences.Īfter the success of The Poseidon Adventure, Warner Bros. (this was the first film to be a joint venture from two major Hollywood studios), it was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from a pair of novels, The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. THE TOWERING INFERNO was a 1974 American action disaster film produced by Irwin Allen featuring an all-star cast led by Steve McQueen and Paul Newman.Ī co-production between Twentieth Century-Fox and Warner Bros. One such movie that I remember watching is THE TOWERING INFERNO. One of my happiest younger memories was on a lazy Sunday I would put in a long movie and just lay and get so sucked into a movie.
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