The Towering Inferno, poster, US advance poster art, top from left: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye ... [+] Dunaway; bottom from left: Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain ...

Rather than let the 50th anniversary of The Towering Inferno pass unnoticed, it’s time to share the reasons why it came to define the disaster genre. Reportedly, Steve McQueen and Paul Newman ...

Directed by John Guillermin and produced by Irwin Allen, The Towering Inferno remains a classic ... action-packed scenes to the project. Their combined efforts resulted in a cinematic tour de ...

Poseidon Adventure was the second most popular film of the year behind a little movie called ... the most expensive film to date — The Towering Inferno was so huge that it became the first ...