Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What begins as a minor incident quickly escalates into a raging inferno, trapping hundreds of people on the upper floors of the ...

Movie technology is the star of this awesome Irwin Allen production, a formula disaster picture made into an event by the sheer size of its inflating production values. More ordeal than entertainment, ...

In December 1974, The Towering Inferno soared to the top of the box office. The disaster film about a fire in the world’s tallest building was a box office No. 1 hit that became the highest-grossing ...

"Fire, flood or any other act of God." So, anyway, it says on the insurance policy. But the crises in 1970s disaster movies were almost always caused by Man. Or if not directly caused, then aided and ...

But five decades later, this film isn’t readily available to stream or rent online, which means audiences have either forgotten about it or they never knew it existed in the first place. Rather than ...

The Glass Tower burns in The Towering Inferno - 20th Century Fox/Warner Bros. Hollywood studios have a peculiar knack for greenlighting similarly themed movies at the same time. In 1989, there were ...