1974 The Towering Inferno

1974 The Towering Inferno Full Movie starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and a cast of thousands. In 1974 I was 10 years old and already loved Steve McQueen. My mom was a big movie going fan and she loved taking her kids to the theater and seeing these great disaster movies like Earthquake, Airport, The Towering Inferno and many more. I was so lucky to see such great movies in the theater through out the years with my mom.
The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American disaster film directed by John Guillermin and produced by Irwin Allen, featuring an ensemble cast led by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. It was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. In addition to McQueen and Newman, the cast includes William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain, O. J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, Susan Flannery, Gregory Sierra, Dabney Coleman and Jennifer Jones in her final role
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.
Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and William Holden all wanted top billing. Holden was refused, his long-term standing as a box-office draw having been eclipsed by both McQueen and Newman. To provide dual top billing the credits were arranged diagonally, with McQueen lower left and Newman upper right. Thus each appeared to have first billing, depending on whether the credit was read left-to-right or top-to-bottom.[28] This was the first time this "staggered but equal" billing was used in a movie,[citation needed] although it had been considered earlier for the same two actors for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid until McQueen turned down the Sundance Kid role. McQueen is mentioned first in the film's trailers. In the cast list rolling from top to bottom at the end of the film, however, McQueen and Newman's names were arranged diagonally as at the beginning; as a consequence Newman's name is fully visible first.
The film was one of the biggest-grossing films of 1975, with theatrical rentals of $48,838,000 in the United States and Canada. In January 1976, it was claimed that the film had attained the highest foreign film rental for any film in its initial release, with $43 million, and went on to earn $56 million. When combined with the rentals from the United States and Canada, the worldwide rental is $104,838,000.
The film grossed $116 million in the United States and Canada[40] and $203 million worldwide.