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Inferno
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236 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 2, 2026 · last updated Nov 3, 2026 · How this works
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The Towering Inferno is a 1974 action drama thriller film, directed by John Guillermin, starring Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and William Holden.
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- posts span Aug 9, 2018 to Nov 2, 2026
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60 of 236 · most liked firstso THE TOWERING INFERNO is, uh, a brutal movie
negative · AI labelView post →Loved Richard Chamberlain in THE THREE MUSKETEERS & THE TOWERING INFERNO (best sniveling cowardly death ever!). Also PETULIA, a truly great film. Fun fact: He made the first recording of Bacharach/David's CLOSE TO YOU. What a career! Rest In Peace.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rest in peace, Richard Chamberlain, my long-ago crush as Edmond Dantès in the TV movie of The Count of Monte Cristo. Utterly villainous in The Towering Inferno and Petulia, and excellent in The Last Wave.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Towering Inferno (1974) Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway head up an all star cast in this disaster film directed by John Guillermin and produced by Irwin Allen.
neutral · AI labelView post →For movie night we are watching THE TOWERING INFERNO, which I forgot takes place at Xmas so there you go. There’s another Xmas movie for you
neutral · AI labelView post →On this week’s SCOTT HASN’T SEEN, we watch the 1974 disaster film THE TOWERING INFERNO, starring Steve McQueen & Paul Newman! Joining us is @nytimes.com columnist, & co-host of the political thriller movie podcast Unclear and Present Danger, @jamellebouie.net! Exclusively at @cbbworld.bsky.social!
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight on TCM #TCM THE TOWERING INFERNO (1974) Nothing says 1974 like this blazing disaster movie. I saw it when it came out. I was 16, Even then I knew it was silly but fun entertainment.🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →The Towering Inferno (1974) Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway head up an all star cast in this disaster film directed by John Guillermin and produced by Irwin Allen.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Towering Inferno (1974) Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway head up an all star cast in this disaster film directed by John Guillermin and produced by Irwin Allen.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Towering Inferno (1974) is a brawny blockbuster of a movie, by far the best of the mid-1970s wave of disaster films. It’s an example of Hollywood commercial moviemaking at its finest. It’s also a movie to make me happy I don’t live in a high-rise.
positive · AI labelView post →Robert Vaughn, who was a senator in Bullitt, is still a senator in The Towering Inferno, which makes the latter movie part of the Bullitt Cinematic Universe. (Steve McQueen clearly got fed up with the bullshit in the SFPD and left to become a firefighter.) #TCM
neutral · AI labelView post →The Towering Inferno (1974) Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway head up an all star cast in this disaster film directed by John Guillermin and produced by Irwin Allen.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Towering Inferno (1974) Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway head up an all star cast in this disaster film directed by John Guillermin and produced by Irwin Allen. #FilmSky #MovieSky
neutral · AI labelView post →life’s just a movie unfortunately we’re all watching The Towering Inferno
neutral · AI labelView post →The Towering Inferno (1974) Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway head up an all star cast in this disaster film directed by John Guillermin and produced by Irwin Allen.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Towering Inferno is Poseidon but in a skyscraper and fire instead of the ocean and I am LOVING this film so far
positive · AI labelView post →You Need to Watch Tim Burton's Most Underrated Sci-Fi Movie. In 1996, Independence Day became the highest grossing movie of the year, cementing Will Smith as a leading man, turned director Roland Emmerich into one of Hollywood’s top names, and solidifying the alien invasion movie as the ideal summer blockbuster spectacle. But another alien invasion film came out in 1996, one with the misfortune of showing up around 6 months after Independence Day. Mars Attacks! would be Tim Burton’s stab at…
neutral · AI labelView post →I love The Towering Inferno but it is pretty brutal, although typical of the 70s disaster movies I feel like modern versions are quite sanitised in this respect People do get into danger, but they manage to escape or are saved right at the last minute
positive · AI labelView post →Film fact: Fred Astaire has been in more films with an exploding helicopter than Al Pacino. Fred appeared in The Towering Inferno which featured a chopper fireball while Little Al has yet to make a film that'd truly interest me.
neutral · AI labelView post →The crisp cinematography of #ViceSquad is by Joseph Biroc, who began in silents before shooting low-budget noirs in the 50s and becoming one of the busiest DPs of the 60s and 70s, shooting The Longest Yard, Blazing Saddles, and the Towering Inferno, for which he won an Oscar. #TCMParty #NoirAlley
neutral · AI labelView post →Hate the rich? Watch them burn in classic disaster movie The Towering Inferno. Yes, Paul Newman is great as the architect who realises the immediate fire risk of the skyscraper in question, but Steve McQueen’s fire chief is a taciturn blue-collar hero for the ages film-authority.com/2024/12/28/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →Wouldn't be a critic if I didn't stick the boot in; much as I love 70s disaster movies The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, Earthquake just hasn't aged well at all. Soap-opera acting+ variable effects don't help much. On the Channel 4 player. 2 out of 5 film-authority.com/2026/11/01/e...
neutral · AI labelView post →Today's movie (Sunday 10-11-26) is The Towering Inferno (1974) ithe best of the mid-1970s wave of disaster films.
neutral · AI labelView post →Wanna know something else really cool, scary and weird? When VHS players were first available regular people finally had the ability to watch the movie of their choice at home. And a VHS would set you back the 2025 equivalent of £250!!!! Imagine paying that for The Towering Inferno or something.
neutral · AI labelView post →Today’s family afternoon movie in the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno 🔥
neutral · AI labelView post →The ups & downs of this year have often felt like world was on fire, so #fullmoonfrights screens biggest disaster film of the 70s on Tues: The Towering Inferno (1974) Prime 8pmEST It’s a one-movie.nite, but there’s so many actors in this one, it will feel like two 😝 All welcome! #mutantfam
neutral · AI labelView post →My dad was a fireman & he disdains most movie firefighting but always enjoys pointing out all the details they got right in The Towering Inferno. Lots of ludicrous stuff of course, but where there wasn't a dramatic reason to do something silly, the procedural stuff is about right.
positive · AI labelView post →Disco Inferno by The Trammps was inspired by the movie "The Towering Inferno" and became a worldwide hit when it was included in the soundtrack to another movie "Saturday Night Fever" In 2005, "Disco Inferno" was inducted into the Dance Music Hall of Fame. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcua...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Towering Inferno, 1974, Fort William (‘cinema’ was above a pub?)… five years old… classic disaster film. Good parenting.
positive · AI labelView post →936) The Towering Inferno (1974) #FullMoonFrights on @primevideo.bsky.social #2025FirstTimeWatch 817 #NowWatching #FilmSky #TheToweringInferno
neutral · AI labelView post →#filmsky 📽️ #otd in 1997 the disaster film "Volcano" directed by Mick Jackson, and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche is released. Thoroughly passable disaster film hits all the right notes What’s your favorite disaster movie? Mine is The Towering Inferno
neutral · AI labelView post →The story for how he came up with the plot for Nothing Lasts Forever is that one night in December of 1974, he had just gotten back from a showing of The Towering Inferno, a disaster film starring Paul Newman and Steve McQueen, and on that same night that he slept, he had a dream. #RazorgirlReads
neutral · AI labelView post →The Towering Inferno (1974) Irwin Allen's movie about a fire in a skyscraper gathers a bunch of stars (William Holden, Faye Dunaway, etc.) but the drama is mere boilerplate. Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, & their stunt doubles perform feats defying reality. But I have to admit the fire is impressive.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s classic film with mental health commentary is The Towering Inferno (1974). This one is three hours long 🤯 I’ll post comments in this same thread, so keep your eyes peeled! I’m excited to see Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, AND Faye Dunaway in the same film!
neutral · AI labelView post →The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. My other choices: The Towering Inferno or One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. This seems bad.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Towering Inferno is on RTE1 at 14.40. A masterpiece of a disaster film. Then when its over Field Of Dreams is on RTE2. Two great films for a rainy sunday.
positive · AI labelView post →My Letterboxd review of The Towering Inferno. #TheToweringInferno #Letterboxd #70sDisasterFilms #MovieFan boxd.it/9VI01L
neutral · AI labelView post →#MayMovieChallenge Day 13 - something on fire in a movie The Glass Tower, a 138 story skyscraper, in The Towering Inferno (1974) #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →#nowwatching The Towering Inferno aka the best disaster movie of them all. I adore this one.
positive · AI labelView post →Share an image from your favourite disaster movie. The Towering Inferno
neutral · AI labelView post →That 70s Movie Podcast returns with . . .The Towering Inferno!!!! You can set the cast, ironically, to Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Richard Chamberlain, O. J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn & Robert Wagner podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →So many of you have asked . . . why do you only talk about great movies on That '70s Movie Podcast? Well, trouble no more, here we are with . . . The Towering Inferno!!!! Bad movie, marvelous cast, great conversation! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
negative · AI labelView post →Remem. dancer/choreog/actor/singer #FredAstaire on his birthday. Known for dancing with Ginger Rogers, he also danced with many stars. My favorite film of his may be THE BANDWAGON. Oscar nom. for THE TOWERING INFERNO. With his first dance partner his sister Adele below #TCMParty #FilmSky📽️ #MovieSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 50th anniversary to THE TOWERING INFERNO, released OTD in 1974 and becoming the highest-grossing film of the year. To settle Steve McQueen & Paul Newman's demands for top billing, the "staggered but equal" design was crafted, still in use today. Nominated for 8 Oscars including Best Picture.
neutral · AI labelView post →#OctoberMovieChallenge 10/8 Something on fire in a movie The Towering Inferno (1974) #filmsky 📽️ #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →The Towering Inferno (1974) is a brawny blockbuster of a movie, by far the best of the mid-1970s wave of disaster films. It’s an example of Hollywood commercial moviemaking at its finest. It’s also a movie to make me happy I don’t live in a high-rise.
positive · AI labelView post →Remembering #FredAstaire (1899-1987) on his birthday in not just The Towering Inferno... weegiemidget.wordpress.com/all-film-and...
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey folks! Here’s the latest AGAINST THE ‘70S post, for THE TOWERING INFERNO! My “hot” take: it’s not a good movie, and part of that is because fire doesn’t work as a threat in movies. Read the post if you want more detail on that!
negative · AI labelView post →Irwin Allen was a fantastic but notorious frugal producer. He made my father’s favorite film ‘The Towering Inferno’. He was a firefighter who loved Steve McQueen. It was the first movie I ever saw at a theater. #Svengoolie
neutral · AI labelView post →I assume we're also being treated to an afternoon film - The Great Escape maybe? With the late film being The Towering Inferno/The Poseidon Adventure?
neutral · AI labelView post →finished The Towering Inferno (1974). Hell of a disaster movie, well made but very brutal and pulls no punches with some of the pointlessly cruel deaths, but I guess that's a disaster for you. fuck skyscrapers
neutral · AI labelView post →10 non-horror movies to get to know me Moonraker A Private Function 2001 The Towering Inferno Billy Liar Way Out West Superman the Movie Kiss Me Deadly Richard III (Loncraine) The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover
neutral · AI labelView post →Iconic Movie Scenes: Blowing up the water tanks. The Towering Inferno (1974) If you've seen the famous BTS footage of this scene it gives great context to the fact these guys were taking a big risk and I salute them 🫡 youtu.be/hidqZE3rigo?...
neutral · AI labelView post →"The Towering Inferno" is the ultimate paycheck movie for the actors in it. I am going to take a wild guess that few if any took their roles because of the film's "artistic merit." 😉 #TCMParty #TheToweringInferno #DisasterMovies
negative · AI labelView post →Should be a good one. However, there is a chance, that I may have to bow out of tonight's viewing as "The Towering Inferno" is on TCM. "Storm Warning" brings on mind another film with a similar theme: "Address Unknown" (1944) about the rise of fascism. #TheNoirCollective @willmckinley.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →The Towering Inferno. I know that seems like a corny answer but an entire movie about people trapped in a fire was incredibly scary to me when I was seven or eight.
neutral · AI labelView post →Idea: Indie Game The Movie 2025, it’s basically just a remake of The Towering Inferno or it would have been if someone hadn’t pulled the funding so now it’s just a leaflet, sorry
neutral · AI labelView post →You've inherited a movie theatre, what's your first double feature? The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974)
neutral · AI labelView post →To be fair, the only movie Donald Trump has ever watched was The Towering Inferno
neutral · AI labelView post →His long list of tv and film productions includes "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea" (1961 film & 1964 tv series), "Lost In Space" (1965), "The Time Tunnel" (1966), "Land Of The Giants" (1968), and the movie blockbusters "The Poseidon Adventure"(1972), and "The Towering Inferno" (1974).
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