Producer Irwin Allen's follow-up to the hugely successful POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1972) assembled another all star cast and tormented them with fire rather than water. The screenplay combined two novels, the production required an unprecedented collaboration between two major studios -- 20th-Century Fox and Warner Bros. -- and the complicated shoot was parcelled out to no fewer than four seperate crews. The result is everything a disaster movie should be, a combination of soap opera and the spectacle of destruction. Here the cross-section of humanity is gathered in a brand-new San Francisco skyscraper, a 135-story, mixed-use wonder built by mogul Jim Duncan (William Hol...
Released:
1974
Rated:
PG
Length:
165 mins