The Towering Inferno 1974

Vincent Canby, New York Times: You may not come out of the theater with any important ideas about American architecture or enterprise, but you will have had a vivid, completely safe nightmare. Read more

Don Druker, Chicago Reader: Irwin Allen, the Busby Berkeley of natural disasters and other people's troubles, teams up with John Guillermin, a competent if undistinguished action director. Read more

Pauline Kael, New Yorker: The movie doesn't stick together in one's head; this thing is like some junky fairground show -- a chamber of horrors with skeletons that jump up. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The Towering Inferno is a brawny blockbuster of a movie, by far the best of the mid-1970s wave of disaster films. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: A starry cast share out roles that are less like characters than places in a lifeboat. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: The Towering Inferno is one of the greatest disaster pictures made, a personal and professional triumph for producer Irwin Allen. Read more