Of all the disaster movies of the seventies this along with The Poseidon Adventure were the very best of the genre. Like Poseidon this was helped by a great cast and exceptional set pieces for it's time.
Paul Newman plays Doug Roberts, an architect of this new state of the art building. Unfortunately unknown to him it's been a botched job and sooner than later there's a fire in the building. A disaster looms but step forward the Fire Brigade led by Chief O'Halloran (Steve McQueen). Now the fun really begins with disaster after disaster plaguing the building and it's occupants, of course there's a couple of rotten apples (Robert Wagner and Richard Chamberlain) but that's part of the joy watching their demise.
Newman and McQueen are both excellent in this thriller of a movie but theirs also nice performances from the likes of Fred Astaire and OJ Simpson, this alas was also the end of the great disaster movies of the Seventies and it was left to the Airplane movies to send the worst of them up in the 1980's.
Paul Newman plays Doug Roberts, an architect of this new state of the art building. Unfortunately unknown to him it's been a botched job and sooner than later there's a fire in the building. A disaster looms but step forward the Fire Brigade led by Chief O'Halloran (Steve McQueen). Now the fun really begins with disaster after disaster plaguing the building and it's occupants, of course there's a couple of rotten apples (Robert Wagner and Richard Chamberlain) but that's part of the joy watching their demise.
Newman and McQueen are both excellent in this thriller of a movie but theirs also nice performances from the likes of Fred Astaire and OJ Simpson, this alas was also the end of the great disaster movies of the Seventies and it was left to the Airplane movies to send the worst of them up in the 1980's.