*THE END IS NEAR!* Earthquake (1974) *FIRST TIME WATCHING MOVIE REACTION*
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- When a major earthquake hits Los Angeles, the various residents of the city cope with the chaos and destruction. Successful architect Stewart Graff (Charlton Heston) argues with his demanding wife, Remy Royce-Graff (Ava Gardner), as the disaster hits. Later, when he checks in on his flirtatious friend Denise Marshall (Geneviève Bujold), they begin an affair. As the personal dramas continue, the city is threatened by aftershocks and possibly even greater quakes.
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Charlton Heston and George Kennedy made this back-to-back with AIRPORT '75, which opened two months apart. A great time to be a kid at the movies!
Fun Fact: The drunk in the bar is Walter Matthau (The Odd Couple, Dennis The Menace, Grumpy Old Men)
He was insanity lol
@@FlixTalk You MUST go for a hike up the Hollywood Reservoir. It is amazing up there !! I hope your next 'disaster' film review is The Towering Inferno. It is by far the best ever !! O. J. Simpson is on it !! BTW: Earthquake was shown with a new sound design called SENSURROUND developed by Universal Studios to enhance the earthquake fee when it started. It felt incredibly crazy in the theater to the point that you thought there was actually an earthquake happening !
Another fun fact. He didnt want to be credited in this movie.
The old Disaster films were so much fun to watch, i loved when the tv channels would show them at least once a year!
I remember watching every single one of the Disaster movies of the 70s with all the big name stars when I was a kid. Most of the time it would be at one of the many drive-ins we had back then
1936's 'San Francisco' with Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy features the great 1906 quake - for 1936, the effects are quite good.
Grew up with this one. Lived in San Francisco when the earthquake hit us in 1989. And still living in California, I'm so used to it.
A great movie - one of my favorites. The special effects for 1974 are incredible. Another favorite of mine from the same year is The Towering Inferno. I'm glad you're getting to see these old classics. They had superior writing compared to the new movies, which are just jammed with CGI effects and bad scripts.
I saw this movie theatrically when I was seven years old in Sensoround. If you don’t know what that is, it meant that they cranked up the bass on the speakers so much that your seats would shake.😂
Yes the audio was pretty insane . I had to lower a lot of parts in post production of my edit
I think they wheeled in special sub speakers. They didn’t just crank the bass up on a knob or something!
Yes❗The Sensoround System actually damaged many theaters, too.
@@Robusphere I didn’t mean literally turn up the bass but I get what you’re saying…to be fair I was 7 at the time.🤣👍
Yessss I remember in the theatre my cousin and I went to noticing the huge sub woofers as we walked in. One guy was walking down the aisle with some popcorn and he spilled it everywhere 😂
I was born in LA in 71, and stayed there until I moved to Vegas in 95, and there is a laundry list of things I don't miss about that city, and earth quakes are probably top of the list.
This was the 4th highest grossing film that year. Disaster movies were huge in the 70's. "AIRPORT:1975" and "THE TOWERING INFERNO" were also hits that year, "THE TOWERING INFERNO" was nominated for BEST PICTURE
Theaters used what was called sensurround speakers, they sent out a low base sound that would cause the sests to shake.
This movie went on to win the OSCAR for BEST SOUND.
I don’t recall any other reaction channel reacting to this movie
Back in the 70s, there were a lot of disaster movies. Earthquake, towering Inferno and all the airport movies. It was all about disaster.
This is one of those movies you’ve got to watch at least once
I got to experience the Earthquake ride at Universal Studios. On a subway platform, ceiling collapsing, gas truck falling in, and a flood of water coming down the stairs. Every 20 minutes.
I probably first saw this on TV in the late 70s or early 80s. I don't think I've seen it since but the kid with the bike falling into the canal broke back a strong memory of that seen. There was a cemented in creek behind my house and the scene made me think that could be me.
Ok! Now you have to watch the Towering Inferno next!🏢🔥
Oh it's coming!
Paul Newman & Steve McQueen - two power houses right there....
I saw this in the theater in Hollywood, California the day it came out at the Graumans Chinese Theater. it was something else seeing this in the town I lived in ABOUT the town I lived in. To top it all off I was living in Santa Cruz, California in 1989 when that one occurred. 7.1 and we were one of two epicenter's that wishboned up to the Bay area. It was unreal to say the least. We lost power for about a week, no gas stations and we lost 5 bridges. The Oakland one was about 100 miles away up the coast
This is my favorite movie. I remember seeing this in theaters when I was 6. I can't get anyone to watch it cause it's so old. Thanks for checking it out.
That soldier was played by Majoe Gortner, who was a child preacher who decided to go into acting as an adult.
Another entertaining disaster style movie that he was in was 'H.G. Wells' Food Of The Gods' (1976).
the documentary about his childhood is fantastic. i have it on dvd.
Great reaction! I saw this movie at its premiere in Buenos Aires in 1974! I remember it had a sound system called "Sensurrouns" or something like that, which caused a vibration effect in the seats. It was fabulous. Greetings from Tandil, Argentina! 🇦🇷🤗
George Kennedy, who plays the cop here, also appeared in all of the "Airport" disaster movies.
I think that's Mikey playing Heston's son. Mikey from the cereal commercial.
I have always thought the various earthquake sequences took place concurrently, making the quake a more realistic length.
George Kennedy ❤😊 and other famous actors ❤
I saw this when I was 12 years old in the theater with Sensurround... they were just a bunch of big subwoofers that rattled our teeth out during the earthquake sequences. I enjoyed the movie but even back then I realized that there was some really bad effects mixed in with the good ones. The lens warping the building that was supposed to be falling, the cartoon blood splatters that made everybody in the theater laugh, and you can see the glass already embedded in that lady's face when she looks up and it smashes on her. All that aside though, it has some really good effects including the matte paintings, a great score by John Williams and some other good stuff here and there. It really is one of my favorite guilty pleasures.
I was a kid during the ‘89 Loma Prieta Quake (San Francisco’s World Series). Disaster movies like this always intrigue me.
I wish we'd been spared Heston's shirtless scene. He was no longer Ben Hur. 😅
Older people sometimes take their shirts off in real life. It happens.
When this movie played in local theatres-they had surround sound which made you feel as if you were in the center of the quake-.
Great reaction to this classic 70s disaster epic...
Universal Studios (both CA & FL) used to have (for several years) an 'Earthquake' ride & stunt show (with a video of Charlton Heston hosting)....It was later replaced by the Fast & Furious race and stunt show....parts of the old 'Earthquake' ride can still be seen in the movie 'Beverly Hills Cop 3' (the fake alien attack ride).
The store manager/ NG Sgt is played by Marjoe Gortner: a former child preacher about whom a documentary entitled "Marjoe" was produced.
Irwin Allen was the KING of disaster films!! Blazed a path for future directors, like Wolfgang Peterson, James Cameron, Steven Spielberg, ectra.
The motorcycle rider is Richard Roundtree the original Shaft
I lived in L.A. back in the early 90's.
I kept a motorcycle in a storage unit, ready to drive out of L.A. if a big earthquake wrecked the city.
No way you can drive out in a car.
Interesting that some of the effects in this movie still look good after 50 years.
This movie used "sensurround" speakers. It used a low base frequency that caused the chairs to vibrate during the earthquake scenes. A theater in Chicago and another in Arizona were forced to shut it off because small pieces of plaster fell from the ceiling and landed on audience members.
Thanks for posting this on CZcams David! I will share this as usual on my Facebook page! I see a lot of people here on the comments section are looking forward to your Towering Inferno reaction next! 😊
Third one of the Big Three disaster flicks from the 70’s: “The Posiedon Adventure,” “The Towering Inferno,” and “Earthquake.” All were chock-a-block of aging A-Listers and tons of character actors. There was a fourth Irwin Allen movie, “When Time Ran Out,” about a volcano, but it isn’t nearly as good.
Another trilogy of fun disaster movies from the same period: “Airport,” “Airport ‘76,” and “Airport ‘77.”
_Earthquake_ producer Jennings Lang also produced the entire _Airport_ franchise, while Irwin Allen produced the biggest hits of the '70s all-star-cast disaster genre _(The Poseidon Adventure_ and _The Towering Inferno)_ and its most pathetic misfires _(The Swarm, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure,_ and _When Time Ran Out,_ plus a batch of middling-to-awful TV movies). The odd entries would be _Tidal Wave_ (a Japanese film into which Roger Corman spliced scenes of Lorne Greene as an American UN ambassador), _Avalanche_ (Corman's dirt-cheap Rock Hudson/Mia Farrow flick), _City on Fire!,_ Canada's ill-advised _R-rated_ disaster with Leslie Nielsen, _Meteor,_ a troubled production that did so poorly that it killed American International Pictures, and _Hurricane,_ another Mia Farrow film which lost producer Dino de Laurentiis a LOT of money.
They're ALL fun (depending on one's tastes) but some are genuinely good, while others are strictly for laughs. _The Concorde--Airport '79_ is particularly silly, but I watch _The Swarm_ at least once a year because Irwin Allen really thought his goofy "adaptation" was going to astound and terrify audiences.
Just subscribed . I was way too young when I saw this one for the first time and had nightmares for years. So...thanks for that reminder, I guess. LoL
In the elevator scene, it was supposed to be fake blood that sprayed all over the people when it crashed to the bottom floor, but they never got a good enough shot, or the fake blood effect never worked right, so they just did some animated blood and hoped it looked realistic. Unfortunately, it didn't look very realistic.
They used the animated blood also because the filmmakers didn't want an R rating from the MPAA.
WTH! I was just reading about Marjoe Gortner two days ago, and now I see him giving credit in the grocery store. Small world; fascinating backstory.
My father took me and my sister to see "Earthquake" the Summer of its release. We saw it Downtown Montreal. The lines for the movie went FOUR. TIMES. around the big city block. People stood in line for hours, to get in. This was because of the gimmick of Sensurround, in which the theaters playing the movie were rented these giant panels of huge bass speakers, which were placed at the rear of the cinema. The Sensurround effect only came on during the earth-shaking scenes. For publicity, the movie Studio advertised that people with heart conditions should leave and obtain a full cash refund for the tickets they had bought, due to a risk of dying from the sound effect.
Sensurround was used in a few more movies, each time more uselessly than before: so-called thriller "Rollercoaster" and the even more boring "Midway", about the U.S. versus Japan, in WWII (also with Charlton Heston). Thank goodness the hype for Sensurround died down, and studios stopped using it. Eventually six-channel THX Sound came into common use, and it sounded much better in cinemas, anyway.
---OronOfMontreal
I always assumed the length of the quake was to show what happened in different places more or less simultaneously. You can see the glass imbedded in the woman's head before it is supposed to hit her. One explanation of the shot of animated blood at the end of the elevator scene is that as originally conceived the ending was too gruesome for the ratings (real dead people and lots of fake blood), so the creators got back for not getting to show what they wanted by overlaying that goofy cartoon blood splatter.
EARTHQUAKE is a classic. I recommend watching THE TOWERING INFERNO and SAN ANDREAS. Both are great.
The Towering Inferno is amazing.
And The Poseidon Adventure, the movie that began the “disaster movie” era!
I wonder how many times they had to make Charlton Heston stand on something so he looked taller than the other actors.
Thank you. I subbed so I don't miss your next disaster movie 🙂
He will be reacting next to The Towering Inferno and When Time Ran Out! I was the one who gave him those movies! 😊
8:19 There's a lot of factors that go into ranking earthquakes. How large is the radius. Where is the epicenter? How long does it last? What type of shaking occurs? A 7.0 is obviously bad anywhere but if it last for three seconds out in the desert it won't destroy LA.
Heston's young girlfriend was played by international movie star, the French-Canadian Genevieve Bujold. One of my favourite movies of hers was "Murder by Decree", co-starring fellow-Canadian Donald Sutherland, who died yesterday, as of this writing. It was a horror-mystery set in Victorian England, and combines the tales of Sherlock Holmes with Jack the Ripper. Holmes was played by yet another Canadian, the great Christopher Plummer, while his sidekick, Dr. Watson, was the final role for British actor, James Mason (the main bad guy in Hitchcock's "North by Northwest"). Many critics have declared these two to be the best Holmes & Mason of any movie, ever. I agree.
"Murder by Decree" is a creepy, scary and highly original film, by director Bob Clark, who created the Slasher genre with 1974's "Black Christmas" but also gave us one of the most delightful yuletide movies, "A Christmas Story", about little Ralphie, who wants from Santa Claus only a Red Rider BB Shotgun. I recommend both these flicks.
---OronOfMontreal
Earthquakes in the 8-9 range can last as long as 5 minutes.
16:05 LA has never looked better.
When this came out i was 13. We were all excited to see it. My dad took us to see it and he pitched a fit because the tickets were $3 each. i was living in LA in 94. The apt bldg i lived inn in Hollywood was one of the ones damaged and we all had to move out
I think this was the first movie to use and boast of a new fangled thing called sensor surround sound. Extra speakers were needed to be temporarily installed in the theaters in order for this to work in surround stereo to feel the vibrating effects of the earth quake etc. Totally nuts lol.
This movie is Hilarious!! Everything is Over the Top!!😮👁😬👏🏾👍🏼🎬📺💙🐲
That's how it would in an earthquake though! Mayhem
@@FlixTalk I Believe it!👍🏼📺
Next should be Towering Inferno, Rollercoaster, Poseidon Adventure and Airport.
I don't think that the earthquake actually lasted 10 minutes. It seems that each time the camera switches to a new location, we are seeing the quake as it begins in each place. So it may have lasted about two minutes total. Besides, audiences in 1974 didn't want to see a quickie quake. We wanted the Big Enchilada. 🙂
Irwin Allen at his best. Clips from this movie have been used ever since. Para medics have only been around for a couple of years and CPR was What? They shoot looters. Remember the guy on the Jackhammer played Moses, Bright Eyes, and El Cid among others. Two other Disasters to try, Air Port and The High And The Mighty.
Earthquake (1974) is ...fire! 🔥
I am a ciniphile i love your work and range of all great films i grew up going to the movies all the time this was Sacramento Ca in the 70s and 80s with my parents i saw many films i slept through most of them being a little kid many years later on cable i was shocked by all the adult content even in PG films i saw Earthquake and the Towering Inferno when first released Please review these underrated great films from the 80s one of the greatest time of film The Emerald Forrest and Enemy Mine both are sensational and and deserves more recognition in Enemy Mine i raised my goddaughter (who is Japanese ) to the films central theme.
Appreciate you!
@FlixTalk Thank you you stand out more with your style among other review ers
My cool Dad took me to see this back in 1974 when I was 11.
One difference between men and women is that guys laugh when they see destruction and people die. I’m watching this and laughing at you laughing. 🤣
Lorne Greene,who played CH's father-in-law,was only 6 years older than his screen daughter,played by Ava Gardner🎩
My favorite disaster film is The Poseidon Adventure. I think it kicked off the disaster movie craze.
6:56 Even today all efforts to predict earthquakes have failed and they've tried EVERYTHING!!!
In the TV show Quantum Leap they had the main character as a stuntman on the earthquake movie and showed some scenes from it. Another good 70s Disaster movie to react to is called The Towering Inferno with Steve McQueen and Paul Newman
Disaster movies were the MCU of the 70's.
At 15.35 that part with that lady was so hammy and i was laughing right along with you . If this movie was made now it would had been much better done with the destruction happening.
Even whennI saw this as a kid the whole hospital thing bothered me. Why put people in the basement of a building that could come down? Once the escape tunnel was cleared, they should have gotten the ambulatory out first, asking for volunteers or having the NG and police to get out the stretcher cases and others who couldn't move well. The objective was to save the most lives possible and they didn't know how much time they had, so doing what they did wasted time and risked blocking the tunnel.
You shoulda seen it in a theater!
I don't think the quake lasted that long, so much as they simple showed different places and people being affected at the same time.
It's like what you get in the comics : "meanwhile."
One of the rare movies that I can never watch thoroughly...because it drags in places. Feels more like an old school tv soap opera than a cinematic event. I think the gimmick of this being released in "Sensurround" is what sold this film, definitely not the acting.
Charlton Heston was a flawed hero... they killed him because of that... an adulterer was not going to survive... and he had to redeem himself by saving his wife
I actually enjoyed the uncommon "kill the hero" character....left off on a more realistic somber note
The disaster movies of the 70s were a big deal and I was just thinking it's funny that no one is reviewing them. Airport, and Poseidon Adventure were a couple more disaster movies worth watching.
watch the other Irwin Alen movies they are pretty good
Great movies. i grew up with. No CGI BS and another thing unlike disaster movies. no fucking jokes and idiots acting silly.Its a serious movie.
THE END IS NEAR.......2025 --2010. 😫😫😫😭😭😭😭😭😭
More likely he was wearing a hairnet.
The crazy National Guard guy was played by Marjoe Gortner -- he'd been a child evangelist on the bible-thumping circuit before he became an actor.
The actual acting in some parts by the fleeting extras once the earthquake hits is proper rubbish but yeah for one of the earliest disaster movies, sets in this are impressive for its time bearing in mind limitations that existed back then. So overall kind of bad but good guilty pleasure.
The era of "disaster movies" gave us a lot of really baaaad movies. 😂😂😂
This was fun to me though. Had a wild ride time
@FlixTalk Yeah it was fun seeing it in the theater with Sensurround at the age of 10. So much fun I did it twice. 😂
The disaster flicks are awesome for the effects back in the day, but the acting in them was pretty bad. Contrived stories for plot lines that all intersect. They became formulaic in short order.
The effects saved this one.
I think there was only 1 other Sensurround movie, "Midway," based on the sea battle that turned the tide in the Pacific theater in WWII. I believe Heston (and another cast of aging big names) was in that, as well.
To be honest, this film completely loses it's impact without the Sensuround element because the special effects themselves are actually not that good .. lot's of obvious model buildings falling apart and 'shaking the camera' shots .. and as for splattering the screen with blood @14:52 .. seriously !!!
What a terrible review . . . even if the 70s movie effects were questionable, your laughing, cackling & mocking ruined it. Why don't you try Disney cartoons, instead?
Well, he wasn't mocking the movie. He was actually enjoying it. That's why it's supposed to be a reaction video. I'm looking forward to his reactions to The Towering Inferno and When Time Ran Out next. 😊
That's ridiculous, he enjoyed and appreciated it much more than most of the critics of the day did, and praised the practical effects up and down. I saw no mocking there.
hey lady what are you talking about ? i was laughing too at when all that destruction was happening because some of it was so hammy and silly . that guy going into the house with a ciggerette in his mouth and gas leaking and then BOOM! you take this movie too seriously.
@tiffanyokeefe for me it's more of "I can't believe this is happening " laugh....like a nervous laugh