The Towering Inferno (1974) Body Count
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- How many people die in this memorable but hokey 70's disaster flick?
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Poor Carlos, I was rooting for him through the film because he was a nice guy. On another note, RIP Gregory Sierra, who just died two months ago from cancer.
I know, he even saved the 29, just to get stabbed by a kings statue 😢
Aka Julio Fuentes aka Lolo the Mobster.
I loved him. I saw him in a Quincy episode, All in the Family and of course The Towering Inferno.
I absolutely love this film, what a fab ending. Best disaster film ever, even by today's standards.
I would love to see a remake of this movie, I am not sure they are doing it, and if they do the should give the title "Inferno at the Tower", or Skyscraping Inferno." Ha, ha.
Amy,
Just watched this movie last night for the first time in like > 30 yrs!
Didn't remember a lot about it, except some of the cast and the basic story.
IMO, this ranks high (probably #2) in disaster movies, but I'd put the iconic "TPA" above this one.
It is DEFINITELY one of the best, especially for its time.
You're absolutely spot on there...those era movies...this one...the original Poseidon adventure...China town..where eagles dare etc ...are all masterpieces..
Umm .no
I don’t know why, but I’ve always thought that Lorrie and Dan’s deaths, (Susan Flannery and Robert Wagner), were the most tragic and saddest. Just knowing that they were trapped and nobody knew they were up there. The prolonging of the inevitable. 😔😔
Worst part is only a few minutes later the rescue firemen show up and find dan's body and watch - what timing
@@billjoe39 You mean had they stayed there they would have been saved. Dan even said: Let’s just sit tight and wait till they get here. He should have done that.
@@aatb7 Yes, although it did look like the fire spread quickly through the rooms......mind you, it was also a bit of a hollywood trope, sacrificing 'amoral' characters.......after all, we don't know if dan was married, and cheating on his wife, with his secretary.
@@billjoe39 Remember, at one time people got shocked more easily. Even if a man and a woman were both unmarried, and had sex out of wedlock, it was shocking. Now, as long as it’s an adult man and an adult woman, they’re both single, and not related, who cares?
@@aatb7 and if you're from Norfolk, the related bit doesn't really matter either...
When I saw this in the theater, people where clapping when the builder's son-in-law (Richard Chamberlin) died an asshole's death. Falling from the buoy chair, after fighting to get on it.
Same here. I was 13, saw the movie in the theater on Christmas Day, 1974, and people were cheering as Richard Chamberlain's character fell to his death.
Russell Winkler And kicking people off to their deaths
Did Felton Perry’s fireman character make it?
@@SIGMAMAN69 I watched this on tv yesterday! What a film. I think I saw him tied up in the Promenade Room towards the end but I'm not sure what happened after that.
Because that builder's son in law,Roger Simmons is main antagonist who is responsible making fluky wiring cause building on fire spreading like burning but unstable candle deathtrap.That is why viewers glad that cowardly,irresponsible and uncaring electrical engineer who tried to save himself end up killed for what he done as criminal with charge of arson,sabotage,poor maintenance and murder.
Wow, you really counted! I watched this movie 14 times when I was a kid. Lisolette's and Carlos' deaths were the most heartbreaking for me.
I mean Lisolette literally hits the building as she falls
@@mateocabral1660 I read somewhere that wasn't supposed to happen. The tower was a 30 foot tall model built outdoors and for filming the people falling scenes, they dropped little plastic figures off the side and filmed it. For Lisolette, they planned to just have her fall straight down but instead a gust of wind took her figure and blew it against the side of the building. It was a mistake but they ended up keeping the shot because it made her death much more shocking.
Carlos was such a great guy, one of the most undeserved deaths in movie history. What makes it worse is that the idiot security guard who opened the door allowing the fire to break out seemed to have survived.
yeah their deaths were missed up!
@@garethmurtagh Carlos gave the two kids giant ice cream sundaes after they made their way down to the Promenade room. Good dude.
41 On-Screen deaths and
Yeah, we only see the deaths linked or involving the main characters or who they interacted with. A lot of people forget the loaded elevator that opened on the fire floor then closing with people still inside. We see 1 man later coming out the elevator on fire but ignore the corpses on the floor behind him.
But in this video count deaths Is 41.... Other deaths??? In the movie speaks of 200 circa
@@gianlucaguidotti5234 It counts the deaths/bodies we see on screen.
@@patrickwilkinson7351 thank you.... This movie I likes
...... Excuse my english no good.... I am italian
@@patrickwilkinson7351 great actors in the cast..... Paul Newman ... Steve McQueen.... William Holden... Faye Dunaway.... Fred Astaire.... Jennifer Jones..... Richard Chamberlain.... Susan Blakely..... Robert Wagner and Susan Flannery (Stephanie Forrester in The Bold and the Beautiful)
Im 19 years old, my father showed me and my 2 siblings this movie, probably when i was about 7, I had to leave the room I was so horrifed and I did not sleep for days. On my second watch now as a young adult, my eyes were literally glued to the screen. Great movie and great cast!
An absolute masterpiece... hat's off to the entire cast and crew and the entire production and direction teams..down to the last extra..these are movies that hold their own even today.. thanks for sharing..!!
William Holden was a terrific actor - and my favourite scene is where he’s had enough and punches his horrible son in law !
That scene was total BADASS. Simmons totally got what he deserved in that one.
That guy was the one who truly deserved his fate in this.
Such an uncharacteristic role for Chamberlain. He must have had a lot of fun doing it
@@davidpar2 I was gutted when he fell and Robert Vaughn I have always found them to be very handsome, I bet they did have fun making it,i had to cover my ears up when they fell.
The Dan Bigelow (Wagner) death is the masterpiece scene of the movie, captures the terrifying essence of the film, dramatically and beautifully scored by john Williams.
I dare say that this was probably one of the best films (if not THE BEST) of the Seventies
I expected a pretty tame movie considering it was such an old disaster movie and people weren't as used to violence on film back then. I was completely blown away, the movie is savage as hell
Actually the 70's was the first time (in Hollywood, they were less censored elsewhere) they began showing horrible violence and people dying in gruesome ways. Why? Well, reality had caught up to fiction by the late 60's. People were shown the horrors of war straight into their living room tv's (the Vietnam War), there were violent protests and riots. Presidents and president candidates had been murdered in public. Drugs were everywhere. And not even Hollywood celebrities were safe anymore following the infamous Manson murders in 1969. There even had been a shootout at Kent State University in 1970 where members of the National Guard shot 4 protesting students dead and wounded another 9.
Since *real* violence was everywhere it was obvious Hollywood couldn't tone it down like it had done since the 1930's. Basically they had to "reflect reality". Enter the "disaster movie" era of the 1970's. The reason The Towering Inferno works is because people can relate to being trapped inside a burning skyscraper not being able to escape. Most people never board a cruise ship (the Poseidon Adventure), experience an earthquake if they live in places those never happen in (Earthquake) or are hunted by a giant swarm of killer bees (The Swarm).
Good film making made this possible. I don't think they had "savage" in mind when they shot it.
"People weren't as used to violence on film back then?" Are you serious? The early 1970's was the very start of gritty violence in films. By the time this film was released, I'd say people were very much accustomed to seeing violence.
@@cjqnsnyc Yeah that's true. I guess it was more like my expectation was that violence in movies wasn't as common back then
You should see the special features on the DVD artistic stills storyboards, etc. They wanted it to be a lot more gruesome than it ended up being. Closer to the content of the two books it was based on.
HOKEY?! This movie is incredible! Amazing fire effects and an awesome cast!
No effects. That actually was fire but on sound stages and the outer shots are the Sacramento Bank of America but with fire digitally added onto it. It even got out of hand one day and the actual fire service was forced to make an appearance. This may be a myth but some say that the bodies shown at 2:50 were actual firefighters that they invited on set.
And I just realised I said "no effects" and immediately mentioned digital editing. Duh.
LEGENDARY CAST!
@lorddrayvon1426 what digital editing in 1974? They literally built an 80-foot tall model building and lit it up with gas jets.
I remember seeing this IN A THEATRE and Simmon';s death got the biggest cheers
19 was extremely horrifying. You can hear her scream as she falls to her death, but she hits one of the structures on the way down, going quiet and continuing to fall
It was horrifying and she was a nice person I always remember my granny saying that she would of shattered windows on her way down with her own screaming.
Wish they didn't kill her off unless she wanted to leave the movie I liked her nice person Jenifer Jones
I was probably 5, mayybe 6 years old when i first saw this film, and i think it was the first time it was on television. That scene with Robert Wagner running through his office while on fire scared me for a long time, and I think the music added to it. It was just horrific thinking about how awful burning to death must feel. And then there was his girlfriend, too, jumping to her death rather than stay to wait it out..
the death that bothered me the most was carlos the bartender. of all people, and the corrupt characters in this movie he did not deserve to be crushed to death by some gaudy 70s statue
He tried to save that case of 1929 wine, too. Priorities! lol.
Lisolette's death is one of the most harrowing in movie history. Simmons' is so satisfying!
Agreed. No one was expecting Jennifer Jones's character to die, let alone go out like that. Sadly this was her last film too.
@@alucard624 Especially after saving the kids and surviving the broken staircase!
@@alucard624 one of the most thankless deaths to happen - after saving the children of the deaf mute widow; another thankless death was Shelley Winters' Belle Rosen character to die in "The Poseidon Adventure" right after she saved the preacher who was leading them.
2 comments. Was so bummed that Senator Parker died (thanks Roger Simmons)! Plus, the blowing out of the water tanks to end the inferno was so boss!
It was entertaining when Simmons fell of the chair lift though 😂 my wife was gutted when the Senator fell.
If you zoom your screen in all the way @1:30 and focus it on where the body's point of impact is, you can see Lisolette's little arms flail about like a rag doll after she slams against the building. I'd never noticed that before! 😢
Then finishes the fall with a full gainer with a half twist. Beautiful. A slight deduction for the scream.
2:48 that reminds me to the fallen people of the WTC on 9/11/01 that have been found and covered like those fallen firefighters.
The makers of the movie were inspired by the Twin Towers which opened the year before.The final day off shooting was Septemberr 11 1974 27 years later to the day was 9/11
The first guy may have survived, he was carried alive out moments later and my uncle survived far worse when in the army, working under a truck when it sparked and the fuel tank exploded. That was in the 50's.
Doug Roberts mentioned after taking the fire for the security guard, Will Giddings died 20 minutes after.
Just watched the film a day or two ago and got that, felt silly! Though he was still alive then. I'd have counted it at the time Newman said it too Holden.
Oh, my gosh, his injuries must have been horrific!!!
No, Doug Roberts tells Duncan later that Giddings (the man who was burned) had died of his injuries.
@@nopcshere6097 Yeah I worked that out not longer after writing it. Kind of both ways as he survived for some hours after at the hospital.
I don’t think many people realize is that the people falling out of the building to their deaths, there are first responders on the ground as well as other types of crew. It’s night. You won’t see a body hurling at you until it’s too late. Surprised no one on the ground died from a body hitting them. Ans while we’re on the subject, anyone falling from that height, more than 100 stories, hitting concrete will be smushed like a tomato. I hate to be graphic but it’s true.
Eww it would be a mess where all the guys on the chair lift landed. But you would have heard them on the way down.
My favourite disaster movie, and one of my favourite films. I've loved it since i was 6. You can't beat a high death toll lol.
Love this classic, it was on every christmas when I was a kid, along with Earthquake.
I'm glad they didn't kill off Fred Astaire's character!
His dancing skill saved his life.
@@rodolfogarcia1294 most likely lol
@@rodolfogarcia1294 pity he wasn’t wearing his Top Hat
I remember someone coining the phrase "Shake & Bake" to describe a double feature of The Towering Inferno & Earthquake.
I frequently walk by the "Bank of America" building in San Francisco where they filmed many of the scenes. The "scenic" elevators are in the Hyatt Regency nearby and are still in use.
I loved and own this movie...I miss days of watching goo movies on TV.
My mom talked to me many times about watching this movie (we live in Indonesia & during her time in 70’s not many foreign movies are shown in cinema in the small town where she lives). My mom also doesn’t speak any word of English, but she remembered vividly the title of this movie & also the star Paul Newman. It surprises me how distressing this movie is. 🤭
I was seven years old when I saw this film; and it scared the living shit out of me!!!
I saw this movie, during the 1980's and this is the first time I have seen a disaster movie like this. Others include "Earthquake", and "The Cassandra Crossing".
Wiih, ada orang indonesia jg disini. Barusan saya habis nonton film ini dan bener filmnya seru banget.
1:28 Oh my fucking God!!
This movie always scares the crap out of me. Can't watch it sober cause I have a terrible fear of hights. The broken staircase scene is my personal hell. Why are they not making movies like this anymore?
2:00 the most disturbing death
Poor Chano.
@@Youngstown529 Gregory Sierra is dead for real now. RIP
Most Disturbing..? A statue fell on him ..what's disturbing
Jennifer Jones falling to her death and then bouncing off the building is way more "disturbing"
@@kdohertygizbur That was THE most disturbing death in the whole movie to be honest. Jennifer Jones of all people.
@@alucard624 and that they held it so you see it bouncing off the building as if falling to your death wasn't bad enough
McQueen actually says there were about 200 dead at the end.
As tragic as that one lady's death is when she falls out of the elevator, it's made a bit less so when you see her body go spinning off like a top when she hits the building XD
HMiche93 True. Although it’s a nicely chilling piece of sound editing when her screams are cut off when she does hit the building...
I think the Titanic movies referenced this moment with the guy hitting the propeller.
Only two ladies death that was Lorrie and Liselotte in this movie, I saw this movie during the 1980's and it was great, I see the Liselotte death by falling from the glass elevator during the explosion, both women died while falling from the window, Lorrie smashes the window, then the strong wind from outside that caused the flame to spread that she died while she was being burned alive by jumping from the building.
@@Yuhon100 Can't forget there were women in the elevator when the doors opened on the fire floor, you could hear them scream before the doors closed. Not long after we see one guy coming out the elevator on fire. In the elevator behind him you can see corpses, so safe to say those other women and men died inside the elevator, we just weren't shown. Also, remember Mike at the end of the movie said ''Body count less than 200''. There were deaths off camera and we only saw deaths which involved the main characters.
@@helicoptersrkool It fills me with horror the thought of being in that elevator.
Helicopter: About to land on the building's helipad
Fire: Hippity hoppity get out of my property
what happened in that scene was that the helicopter was trying to land and those two women ran out all freaky like so the helicopter had to pull back, thus crashing into the building and exploding into flames. it was the two women's fault.
@@briankooker2627 Exactly, they startled the pilot so he couldn't land there. It's always a terrible idea to run out at any sort of moving vessel in a panic, even if you're desperate.
Saw this in the theater on New Years Day 1975 when I was 13 and it still one of my favorites even though not perfect. The one scene that still drives me nuts is how did the helicopter get close enough to the building to set McQueen down on the scenic elevator without ripping it's blades off.
Yes. That bugs me too🤷♂️
I didn't realize bob died,the mayor. So sad when the firemen grabbed the kid from the woman in the elevator and let her fall, she died on the way down hitting the building, just like the titanic guy hitting the propeller. Carlos gets through all that and even saves the 29,just to get stabbed by a statue😢 the worst death I always felt was the senators, he was trying so hard to help everyone, I guess he was trying to ride it down with Stevens 😮 great movie tho!
Best. Fucking. Movie. Ever. Made.
Wish someone had made a supernatural sequel. The building is physically restored, but it's spiritually scarred.
All are victims of body no. 23, Roger Simmons, man on breeches buoy!
Just for clarity's sake, not only was Roger guilty, because he changed the electrical stuff, but in a major way, his FIL James Duncan, he was the one who built the Glass Tower, is also guilty because he made some big mistakes too. I don't think any guilt rests on Doug Roberts, he didn't change anything improperly. I think that in the end, Mr. Duncan's firm(Duncan Enterprises) likely would have gone out of business, because of the financial losses it would have taken, wrongful death settlements and all.
He died an Asshole's death ,,yaaa !
Let's see
Family of Will Giddings
Families of those burned in elevator
Family of Lorrie the Secretary
Family of Dan Bigelow
Families of Firefighters KIA
Family of Senator Parker
Family of Lisolette Mueller
Family of Mayor Robert Ramsey
Okay that covers the wrongful-death settlement list.
Now you got other money to payout
Damaged and destroyed equipment
Demolition deconstruction and disposal of Glass Tower itself following a fire investigation by whoever is the fire inspector for the San Francisco fire department
I can say this with some truth. Duncan enterprises would be in bad financial shape after that.
Who would've thought 37 years later we would be watching a real life Towering Inferno around the world on Sept 11th, 2001
I was 8 years old back in 1974 and saw this movie a week before Christmas. Just 35 miles down the Hudson they were just finishing the WTC in NYC. New Yorkers actually hated them for a while until they survived the 93 bombing attempt. Then they won the respect of New Yorkers. They are still missed today.
Off screen another 150 people died.
The best thing about the Towering Inferno is the fact the disaster scenes look realistic unlike the computer generated effects of today which often look so fake. Apart from "Battle of Midway", which did look real.
That poor fireman @1:12
0:24 For those wondering, the first guy dies later in the movie offscreen, as mentioned by Paul Newman.
Great upload :) Can you PLEASE post the death counts of the 2 famous war movies of the 70s A Bridge Too Far and The Eagle Has Landed?
My god, these people had the most-brutal ways to die.
タワーリングインフェルノは名作です。素晴らしい映画です。好きですけど、ロバートワグナーさんのファンです。撮影が大変だったと思います。
Nice job Jodokast, Keep up the good work. P.S What will be the next video?
"You know, we were lucky tonight. Body count's less than 200..."
This is a classic movie.
I hope they do a remake of this movie, this is way too classic. Maybe the new title of the new version of this movie should be "Inferno" or "Skyscraper Inferno".
Oh Bob, shouts at someone for not being tied up and then goes flying himself at the first splash of water
this was when movies we're worth watching
Were*
Now try "The Swarm" or "The Poseidon Adventure" including the reboot!
I haven't seen the swarm but I have seen the Poseidon Adventure, and I don't remember too many deaths from it.
About 80 people die when the ballroom explodes in Poseidon Adventure, plus the 4 main characters from the survivors group that die, and everyone in the bridge, that other group of survivors that doesn't make it...
@@tomemeornottomeme1864 6 survivors out of 1400 on board in "The Poseidon Adventure"
@@michaelmiller6579 They tend to only count on-screen deaths in these sort of things.
The fire inside the elevator that the man stumbles out of was burning bodies, so add a few more to that count
That is only on screen. With the offscreen death it was close to 200.
That scene where the firefighter falls down the elevator while on fire is really messed up.
@@georgie1246 I guess he was dead at that point.
It's even more chilling when you realize that he likely fell from the 79th floor, where the fire department set up a command post (Steve McQueen and the other guys were a few floors below). Something probably happened like an explosion that took them out. It would explain the large number of dead firefighters at the end of the video.
@@AdhamOhm I've often wondered what would've been...left of him.
@@AdhamOhm that and he is the only firefighter that is killed onscreen. Except for maybe the two we see the ceiling fall on but that is left completely ambiguous.
@@weatherguy8380 splatters of blood on the floor and tiny chunks of none. Hope you aren't eating when you read that.
Anyone else notice how as what is supposed to be Liseloette's body falls, it kind of slows down, and then flutters/spins the rest of the way down?
That's because she hits and sort of bounces off the edge of the building, and it sends her spinning. Terrible death scene! lol
BTDG This was 1974 though, before CGI
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It looks realistic though. I think they were referring to the death itself. A terrible death.
Lisolette's death is the most terrifying. I was like holy shit, and I got a trauma. I'm never going to enter high buildings ever again.
@@ralphlorenzperolino3054 That was honestly the worst death in the whole movie.
This movie predicted grenfell kinda.
And 9/11
@@MikeRoberts1964 not 9/11
@@maceroni4390 Inside job
Bastard & Ohio That's got to be the reason this movie hasn't been on TV since,when it used to be on quite often.
So, this is likely the destiny of the Millennium Tower in San Francisco
Who ever said white people can't jump, never saw this movie...
Fun fact: Mike Lookinland (Bobby Brady of _The Brady Bunch_ ) is in this film.
There is a cool episode of the Brady Bunch with scenes featuring Mike Lookinland and Eric Shea who was the kid in The Poseidon Adventure. czcams.com/video/yFt5sXxjk8k/video.html
When it was all over how did all the survivors get down 135 stories to street level?
just a quibble: you have a shot near the end of Paul Newman unconscious, not dead. Or were you counting people in the background?
Background.
1:27
Jesus.
0:39 that scream is from The Poseidon Adventure
Jacob great catch I noticed that too
Jacob
That’s the magic of 1970’s Archival Dialogue.
Which is also by the same production company as this film. COINCIDENCE?
My all time fire films.
I am a mazed at the seriousness of the comments. Back in the day, this is what we, the paying audiences, came to see: Big Name Actors Dying Spectacularly. I know, that sounds cruel, but, that was part of the appeal. Both the Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, the actors contractually had to do their own stunts, Jennifer Jones takes home the Best Death Trophy. Love how the counter changes right when she smacks into The Tower.
Actually, you just made a very interesting point about how well this movie has aged... to have such staying power that it affects different generations in different ways. I was a child when my uncle lost friends during 9/11, and I think that greatly influenced my attitude watching this movie. The characters didn't feel like actors to me, they felt human and I had a lot of empathy for them, but I wasn't around when these actors were well-recognized in their heyday. Had I been from an older generation, I probably would have viewed the movie differently and not seen the deaths as realistic or sad. I know my grandparents laugh at the movie and consider it silly schlock content, as it came out when they were young parents and they were very familiar with the actors and the advertising around the movie, too.
Those stunt performers were incredibly brave.
Everyone who died in this movie pretty much "went up (or down) like a spark."
I'm not going to the towering because I don't want to die fall of death!
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Poor Jennifer Jones, after all she'd been through!
This is realy sick. I have subscribed I got to watch all the other videos :+)-
Actually #29 was Paul Newman and his character survived.
He's talking bout the dead body by Newman
All that grief to save a few measly million dollars.
Things unfortunately have not changed.
At the start of this movie it mentions firefighters....& Rightly so.
They should be paid a whole lot more.
Politicians & world leaders should be getting paid a whole lot less.
Good movie.
I cannot agree more in the film it horrified me and my wife watching the fireman going head first down the lift shaft and on fire they should be paid a hell of a lot more than politicians.
Colossal film!!! l love richard chamberlain!!!! From argentina!!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Wow Felix Leiter was the first to go
Just watched this on ITV4 and 90% of these scenes were cut. Why put the film on tv if they gonna cut out all the good bits? UK tv is a waste of time. They even cut scenes from movies that are aired after 9pm. I watched 'Kingdom Of Heaven' the other night which was aired after the watershed and the death scenes were cut in that too.
Yes they cut way to much in the UK we got this on DVD in the end and more enjoyable on TV it doesn't show Lorrie the secretary going to here demise out of the window but shows the chair lift scene with the men falling.
@@gina7288
Yeah im the same, if there are any movies i want to watch i get them on blu ray or dvd. At least that way you get the full film. I've also been told that movies are being cut/censored on some streaming platforms too. Its just sad. If people don't like something they can just turn it off. No need to censor the film for the rest of us who do want to see it.
@@Tony-1971It's seems like a waste of time watching it with all the bits cut out that's why we got it on DVD my daughter agreed it shook her up seeing the full version Lorrie the secretary death always makes me cringe seeing her pantyhose /tights on fire as she dived out of the window.
@@gina7288
Yeah, buying the films on disc is the way to go. Not good when you are moving home like i am at the moment though. Having to box up and move a ton of dvd's isn't fun.
Same scream i would do if I got kicked off the chair lift 1:40
I think I would of had my hands over my ears if I was sat on the chair lift surrounded by screaming men lol.
@@gina7288 You would with my screaming if I was going to fall that far and splat.
@@georgie1246 Even though he was the bad guy I was gutted when Richard Chamberlain fell I had the hots for him I did put my hands over my ears then but I saw the look of horror etched on his face.
What happened to the Mayor ? falls into the fountain ? not necessarily fatal ...
You do not see his death. As far as the viewer can see he just falls into the recession housing the fountain. However Duncan's reaction suggests he has died. You never see him again either.
Some of these people may not have been killed. The ones that went out windows did, but even those badly burned might have lived.
9/11 desensitized me for stuff like this.
Was a great movie loved it as a kid n now I was born Dec 1 1974 I don't know when towering inferno was released I don't think I was born yet I know my mom saw it in theater think she was pregnant with me great picture one of my favorites
There was an actor playing a security guard who later killed 2 more people...
Played at our local drive in the summer of 75 as a double header with Earthquake. Sign just had Shake & Bake on it.
I just saw this movie for the fist time last night. Can anyone explain to me what Mayor Ramsey fell from? That does not look like a window.
He falls into a lower platform where a decorative fountain stands. lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/MYFnbGH-vPbx3SeqLEXBbl2LeQGHpPIMt63jSQvLbfT5y8EGH57WZmIspnl6nJGSl8gV_s7WcQ1ixfflB4ir1_rf8eqPx4sf4dNDXEx6V79Y3M24QgyiEAhOXGW2TrnJc_L2Uuovmyv_9sQAPjBZ It is in the corner of the room maybe he was washed out the window?
I thought he survived. It looks like he fell into the fountain.
2:05 DISTURBING
Yes it was clearly shot to be disturbing, it is more up close and personal than most of the deaths. To be crushed by a statue just minutes from safety just shows how random all the chaos is in the water tank blast scene.
@@nickdirscherl653 Storyboard artist Joe Musso could be credited for killing him off...
"I'm the one that suggested that they bump off Carlos the Bartender. The studio heads felt that some other important sympathetic character should die in the Promenade Room flooding at the end for a little more emotional impact. They were considering that either Steve McQueen, Paul Newman or William Holden's character should die. However, after deliberating on it, Irwin called his staff together. Irwin was rightfully concerned that since he killed off Gene Hackman's character in "The Poseidon Adventure," that the critics would accuse Irwin of always killing off the hero. Who else, Irwin asked us, can we kill off? To which I replied, "How about Carlos the Bartender, Carlos is an equally sympathetic character, but not one of the three main heroes." Irwin liked the idea and the studio heads bought it, so Carlos was sacrificed, while Steve, Paul and Bill lived on."
Gregory Sierra is dead for real now, he lived to be 84 (1937-2021) RIP. He was known for other things but I do remember this death scene of his being for not only being the most disturbing in this movie but perhaps the most disturbing death in all the disaster movies of that era. Some of it was the set up and the camera work but some of it was his acting ability too, the way his character just heaves over and dies he made hauntingly realistic somehow.
When l saw this as a ten year old that scene saddened me so much.
I was the third person who fell out the window.
Steve McQueen actually said at the end of the movie there were 200
Deaths.
Correct, but these are the on screen ones.
The tower is on fire like one of the Twin Towers
I never quite understood the firefighter sliding down the lift shaft on fire....dramatic to see but didn't make sense to me ??...
I know one thing I would of been screaming my head off all the way down if I was him.
It was horrible to see at least he managed to keep quiet.
I wonder if they are going to do a re-make of this movie, sometimes I have seen old movies that they do a re-make on it and change some version of it. Maybe they should name this movie a different title, let's just say "Inferno" or "Inferno in the Tower".
It shows Susan Flannery falling out the window and her pantyhose falls off!
I think they burnt off it makes my wife cringe watching it.
Casualty #42: accurate depiction of science. As many would tell you, this film, though still holding up as a thriller, doesn't really depict firefighting accurately. And 9/11 showed us that a building in that situation, even if perfectly built (unlike the one in the movie), could collapse completely with only the top floors on fire. This movie could've been only an hour long because the building could've collapsed by then.
@cohenhaywood10 k don't personally buy into the conspiracies but scientifically the fire didn't cause the collapse as it was out within 38 minutes. It wasn't the impact as that would have caused it to go down immediately and it hit at such an angle it would be impossible to hit the building's spine anyway. Also worth pointing out is that the girders would only bend at 12,000 degrees Celsius and that would cause the complete structural collapse required for the buildings to go straight down like they did. We know it didn't reach that for two reasons. First is that the whole building would have to be in fire for that to occur and only eight out of the 120 in WTC 1. The other reason is that a team of firefighters, led by Orio Palmer, managed to make it to the impact zone and report back.
That was because the jet fuel ran down key interior parts of the structure, creating intensely hot fires
Is it confirmed the first guy died? I thought he was taken off in an ambulance....
yes later in the movie they say he died
@@skylertepper2535 thank you, I must have missed that bit.
@@moishe43 Doug recounts to Jim Duncan info from a phone conversation: "Will Giddings died 20 minutes ago."
@@zaniac100 Thank you. I must have missed it.
Did mayor bob ramsay died?
Yes he did
Felton Perry was left out of this list, the black fireman who was smothered by the water while he was tied to a post!
Dunno if that killed him since he may have got down and was simply never shown in the end scene as he wasn't that big of a character. I am curious about his colleague however (the one who fell off of the scenic lift and onto a giant inflated cushion. Probably survived but the height was pretty great.
The firefighter who fell off the scenic lift car onto an inflated airbag did indeed survive because he was only about 40 feet above the street at the time.
Incidentally, this firefighter--played by actor Paul Newman's son Scott--was the man who had to tell Fred Astaire's character of Harley that his lady love Lisolette Mueller had been killed.
@@ilttpvvm No the scenic elevator fireman was played by Ernie Orsatti. He also did the fall into the light fitting during the capsize sequence in The Poseidon Adventure.
Yeah Harley (Fred Astaire) is looking for Lisolette and approaches the fireman "You - you were in the elevator with her - Mrs Mueller, the fine looking woman... Have you seen her?"
@@ilttpvvm Newman's son was the FF who said to the Capt. " I'll fall, I know I will" and Capt says, "you go first then, so you dont take us with you". Ernie Orsatti was the FF in the glass elevator who told Harley that Mrs Muellor was dead.
@@lorddrayvon1426 You can see him shake Mike's hand afterwards. He survived.
In the movie more die because there was 294 guest in the ballroom
they all wanted to live but hell built this tower if this never existed nothing would've happened and buildings aren't supposed to be that high