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A Few Minutes with Nat Segaloff: Remembering “The Towering Inferno” on its 50th Anniversary
“It is very simply the greatest disaster movie ever made.” — Nat Segaloff, author of More Fire! The Building of The Towering Inferno: A 50th Anniversary Explosion
The Digital Bits and History, Legacy & Showmanship are pleased to present this retrospective commemorating the golden anniversary of the release of The Towering Inferno, Irwin Allen’s popular production about a fire in a San Francisco skyscraper.
Based upon the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson, the 20th Century-Fox/Warner Bros. co-production was directed by John Guillermin (The Blue Max, King Kong [1976]) and featured an all-star cast headed by Steve McQueen (Bullitt), Paul Newman (Cool Hand Luke), William Holden (Sunset Boulevard), and Faye Dunaway (Network). [Read on here...]
- film retrospective
- The Digital Bits
- Michael Coate
- History Legacy & Showmanship
- Nat Segaloff
- The Towering Inferno
- 50th Anniversary
- 20th Century Fox
- Warner Bros
- Irwin Allen
- skyscraper
- fire
- San Francisco
- Richard Martin Stern
- John Guillermin
- Steve McQueen
- William Holden
- Paul Newman
- Faye Dunaway
- Frank M Robinson
- Thomas N Scortia
- The Tower
- The Glass Inferno
- John Williams
An Honor To Be Nominated: Sunset Blvd.
If it can be difficult to remember who won the Academy Award for Best Picture, it’s downright mind-bending trying to remember everything else it was up against. In An Honor To Be Nominated, I’ll be taking a look back at some of the movies the Oscar didn’t go to and trying to determine if they were robbed, if the Academy got it right, or if they should ever have been nominated in the first place. [Read on here…]