At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
- Won 3 Oscars
- 13 wins & 14 nominations total
Sheila Allen
- Paula Ramsay
- (as Sheila Mathews)
Norman Burton
- Giddings
- (as Normann Burton)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBoth novels were inspired by the construction of the World Trade Center in the early-1970s, and what could happen with a fire in a skyscraper. In Richard Martin Stern's novel "The Tower", the fictional 125-story building was set next to the north tower of the World Trade Center. The climax of the novel was centered around a rescue mounted from the north tower.
- Goofs(at around 2h 35 mins) At the end of the movie the tower seems to be well lit despite the power outage caused by the fire.
- Quotes
Doug Roberts: I don't know. Maybe they just oughta leave it the way it is. Kind of a shrine to all the bullshit in the world.
- Crazy creditsThe 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. Pictures logos don't appear in the beginning.
- Alternate versionsThe film was re-dubbed in 2003 for the German DVD release. All subsequent releases on DVD and Blu-ray feature this new dubbing, many TV airings as well.
- ConnectionsEdited into St. Elsewhere: The Abby Singer Show (1988)
- SoundtracksWe May Never Love Like This Again
Sung by Maureen McGovern
Words and Music by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn
Featured review
Burn baby burn
No disco inferno though (maybe in the books this is based on - kidding of course). It is quite the star ensemble we get here and you would wonder how to get so many celebrities into one building. Also what the net worth must have been. Speaking of which and believe it or not but even back then either the stars or the managers (some of them) cared about how many lines were spoken by their character and where their name would be placed in the titles ... sounds vain, yes? It kind of is.
But it is also kind of understandable if you think of what the worth was, how to present one self and that there was no social media to promote a star or other things of that nature. Still even with lesser technology the inciting incident should not have happened here, but then we wouldn't have a movie, would we? So there is a suspension of disbelief and there are the good and the bad characters and even I guess a horror cliche/trope, where people should not engage in sexual encounters if they value their life (I might be exaggerating a little bit, also everything is PG-13 max and no skin/nudity that should "worry" parents).
So one of the mothers or fathers or whatever you want to call it of disaster movies is on display here. This ignited - oops - a lot of copycats as one may imagine ... then again, the action director here already had made Poseidon Adventure ... so there's always a before. Still very good character piece amongst a lot of chaos and destruction
But it is also kind of understandable if you think of what the worth was, how to present one self and that there was no social media to promote a star or other things of that nature. Still even with lesser technology the inciting incident should not have happened here, but then we wouldn't have a movie, would we? So there is a suspension of disbelief and there are the good and the bad characters and even I guess a horror cliche/trope, where people should not engage in sexual encounters if they value their life (I might be exaggerating a little bit, also everything is PG-13 max and no skin/nudity that should "worry" parents).
So one of the mothers or fathers or whatever you want to call it of disaster movies is on display here. This ignited - oops - a lot of copycats as one may imagine ... then again, the action director here already had made Poseidon Adventure ... so there's always a before. Still very good character piece amongst a lot of chaos and destruction
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- kosmasp
- Oct 21, 2019
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Flammendes Inferno
- Filming locations
- 2898 Vallejo Street, Pacific Heights, San Francisco, California, USA(Roger and Patty Simmons' house)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $14,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $116,000,000
- Gross worldwide
- $116,000,429
- Runtime2 hours 45 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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