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петок, 26 март 2021 03:05
Irwin Allen struck upon a goldmine when he bought the rights to a book called The Poseidon Adventure and turned it into a big, sweaty hulk of a movie. The flick turned out to be a huge hit, with audiences if not necessarily with critics, and it even earned an impressive eight Oscar nominations.

Immediately after his sea-faring success, Allen leaped upon a new concept. It turned out that the book he so desperately wanted to buy was already owned by Warner Bros. So, like any canny producer, Allen found himself a paperback with the exact same plot, bought the screen rights, and walked into Warner Bros. to say "Hey, let's make this movie together instead of competing over the concept."

So "The Glass Inferno" and "The Tower" were handed over to Poseidon screenwriter Stirling Silliphant along with one piece of instruction: Turn these two novels into one big screenplay. And the rest is disaster movie history.

The Towering Inferno furthered the template that Allen laid down with Poseidon: Take a bunch of very famous actors. Jam them into a spot where death and danger lurk around every turn. Dole out just enough melodrama to keep the characters interesting, and be sure to casually kill a few characters whenever the action got a little limp. And for a few movies, this formula worked like a grade-A charm.

In at least one area of filmmaking, Irwin Allen liked to keep things simple, and that one area was the plot. The Poseidon Adventure was "folks try to escape from a capsized ocean liner," while The Towering Inferno was even easier: "Folks try to escape from a burning skyscraper." Clearly the movie fans weren't going to the disaster flicks for their Machiavellian plot machinations. But nobody could accuse Irwin Allen of being stingy with the goods. Those who bought a $4.00 ticket to The Towering Inferno absolutely got their money's worth.

So who's trapped inside the penthouse of the world's newest, tallest, and shiniest skyscraper -- while a massive fire rages down on the 81st floor? We've got a heroic fire chief (Steve McQueen), the conflicted architect and his semi-estranged girlfriend (Paul Newman & Faye Dunaway), a lovable old grifter (Fred Astaire), a guilt-ridden construction tycoon (William Holden), his frustrated daughter (Susan Blakely), and his snivelling son-in-law (Richard Chamberlain). Throw in a mayor (Jack Collins), a senator (Robert Vaughn), a cheat (Robert Wagner), and a widow (Jennifer Jones), and you've got an eclectic enough mix to start throwing a few of them off a roof.

But for all its spectacle and pyrotechnical magic, its the actors and the characters that make the Inferno one of the greats of the disaster genre. For all its shallow dialogue and predictable plot-twists, The Towering Inferno still delivers a whole lot of bang for the buck, and it's not just the explosions that keep fans coming back. Heck, how often do you get to see Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, and Faye Dunaway in the same scene? Plus the film has two or three of the most memorable 'surprise demises' ever tossed onto a screen.
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