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	The Towering Inferno (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Towering Inferno is a 1974 disaster movie adapted by Stirling Silliphant from the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson.
		The Glass Tower itself was a matte painting in the opening shot, and an 80-foot tall "miniature" fitted with propane gas jets for exterior fire scenes.
		In The Towering Inferno, a short-circuit during routine pre-dedication testing causes a power surge which sets a janitor's closet on fire (a scenario closer to that of The Tower); escape by helicopter fails due to high winds, but escapes by breeches buoy to a neighboring 100-floor skyscraper, and an exterior "Scenic Elevator" are more successful.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Towering_Inferno_(movie) (1239 words)

	Fool.com: Towering Inferno? [Motley Fool Take] February 6, 2004
		Other than small, independent record stores, Tower Records was once one of very few stops I made when looking for obscure music of mostly imports and indie bands.
		In the "burn, baby, burn, disco inferno" category, CD burning has allowed folks to easily replicate their friends' disc collections.
		Tower may have been a great place to go for musical obscurity in the past, but the lesson for investors is watch out for businesses that don't see the threat of obscurity coming.
	www.fool.com /News/mft/2004/mft04020605.htm?ref=foolwatch (492 words)

	Madrid's Towering Inferno & The 9/11 Building Collapse Cover-Up
		The media covering this event has been hovering on the edge of its seat, waiting for the building to fall, frequently commenting on the debris falling from the inferno implying that some tumbling sheet rock are an indication of the building's seemingly inevitable downfall.
		The blazing tower evoked memories for many Spaniards of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center in New York.
		This is wtc7, another building near the twin towers, it had two isolated fires which can be see here.
	www.infowars.com /articles/world/madrid_towering_inferno.htm (940 words)

	ElectronicsWeekly.com - Towering inferno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Inferno is as an operating system that comes with the Limbo programming language and a range of application programming interfaces for different hardware platforms.
		Inferno's origins are in Bell Labs, famed for its development of Unix, and C and C++ programming languages, and many of the same developers also had a hand in the creation of Inferno.
		Inferno is currently available in an Alpha version with commercial release by the end of this year.
	www.electronicsweekly.com /Article4789.htm (861 words)

	Towering Inferno Review
		Although U.S. Games got authorization from 20th Century FOX to use the title "Towering Inferno", it is not based on the Steve McQueen film of the same name, as nothing in the manual, game, or packaging would indicate that there is any connection besides the similar theme of a burning building.
		These factors all pump up the excitement level of Towering Inferno, but it also means that getting past the upper floors on the the third building and beyond will depend as much on luck as skill.
		Like most Atari 2600 games, Towering Inferno loops indefinitely, and the only visual reward for clearing a building is that the next one changes color.
	www.flyingomelette.com /reviews/2600/tower.html (816 words)

	Science World : Towering inferno: from a 40-story apartment building in Houston to the World Trade Center in New York ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Towering inferno: from a 40-story apartment building in Houston to the World Trade Center in New York City, firefighters wield high-tech tools to battle monster flames.
		Visibility was zero, and the high-rise became a 427 [degrees] C (800 [degrees] F) inferno.
		Read 'Science World: Towering inferno: from a 40-story apartment building in Houston to the World Trade Center in New York City, firefighters wield high-tech tools to battle monster flames.
	static.highbeam.com /s/scienceworld/january212002/toweringinfernofroma40storyapartmentbuildinginhous/index.html (309 words)

	The Infernolab::::Towering Inferno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Towering Inferno is an attempt to combine all of those qualities in a package unlike any other previously seen in a competition.
		Towering Inferno was the feature of one segment on the Movies For Guys Who Like Movies Judge Dredd airing on the TBS Superstation.
		Towering Inferno was also displayed at the UCSB Chancellor's fundraiser reception (swanky!).
	www.infernolab.com /projectfiles/ti.html (565 words)

	The Towering Inferno (1974)
		I saw The Towering Inferno for the first time in my little hometown cinema when I was 11 years old.
		To their credit, the cast members give it their all, despite some pretty weak dialogue—"How long do we have, Jim?" "Bob, I wish I knew." "Dammit, Jim, you built this tower!" The only one who exudes the I'm-seriously-slumming-it vibe is Paul Newman, which is too bad, since this movie is a champ.
		And the tower itself is a marvel: They somehow make it seem as though it really IS a huge skyscraper and not some dinky model a fraction of the size.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=1422&buy=open&PID=10047030&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (631 words)

	The Towering Inferno (1974)
		As such, if I wanted to see The Towering Inferno again, it was going to have to be on TV, and that occasion never seemed to occur when I was a kid.
		Overall, The Towering Inferno is not a great piece of work, but it remains a lot of fun and stands as probably the best of the disaster genre.
		While the DVD of The Towering Inferno won't make anyone mistake it for a film released in 1999, it does at least avoid most of the flaws of the old LD.
	www.dvdmg.com /toweringinferno.shtml (2492 words)

	The Infernolab::::News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Unfortunately, Towering Inferno did not make it out of the preliminary rounds this time, losing to a solid spinner named Ripkin, but you'll definitely be seeing a lot of Dr. Inferno Jr.
		In the rush to prepare him, while also preparing Towering Inferno for his rumble, I forgot to swap out the blown fuse, but I needed a full 5 minutes of drivetrain power, so I didn't worry about it.
		Towering Inferno will be on this coming week's episode of BattleBots.
	www.infernolab.com /news.html (5446 words)

	DVD : The Towering Inferno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although some effects (especially long-shots of the tower on fire) are dated, most of the action is realistic because it involved real sets with real fires - none of the computer-animated crap that passes for action these days.
		True, this tower did not collapse, but this movie's outreach and dedication to the firefighter vocation are now quite chilling, epsp.
		One thing that was different about "The Towering Inferno" is that it was a long movie by even the standards of the 1970s.
	www.pree.tv /6305280762/The_Towering_Inferno.html (717 words)

	Filmtracks: The Towering Inferno (John Williams)
		The Towering Inferno: (John Williams) High on the list of top ten most requested scores of the modern era, John Williams' The Towering Inferno is finally released in full on CD.
		For The Towering Inferno in 1974, the genre of realistic disaster films would reach a climax not to be touched again through the end of the century.
		Overall, this is the The Towering Inferno album that Williams fans have been dreaming about for decades, and it is by far the crowning achievement of Film Score Monthly's growing enterprise of Silver Age Classics albums.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/towering_inferno.html (1391 words)

	Towering Inferno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Towering Inferno: Blowin' Up The name Towering Inferno seems appropriate given the way the group blew up when they first entered the local hip-hop scene.
		It's a Wednesday afternoon and I'm finally sitting in my room with DJ Damage and Lazy Grey as they share thoughts on Towering Inferno and the current state of hip-hop in Australia (trying to get the two current members of Towering Inferno together is like getting blood out of a rock).
		Towering Inferno is the next shit out of Australia, and hopefully their dreams of a career in music will be granted and they will move into 96.
	www.bombhiphop.com /towering.htm (622 words)

	Filmtracks: The Towering Inferno (Disaster Compilation)
		The original score for Towering Inferno is yet unavailable as of 1999.
		The Towering Inferno (and Other Disaster Classics): (Compilation) As compilations go, this one wins the award for "most ruckus caused." In mood, it is a consistent and impressive collection of re-recordings and original recordings.
		The original recording of The Towering Inferno has been (and might be forever) tied up in limbo as far as the rights to a possible CD release, and therefore cannot be heard on any album.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/towering_varese.html (751 words)

	The Towering Inferno
		The best of the '70's disaster epics: "The Towering Inferno" (1974) is by far the best of the '70's disaster epics, with only "Airport" (1970) and "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972) in the same league.
		Actually, in 1974, "The Towering Inferno" was such a massive undertaking that two studios (Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century-Fox) combined to make it, which was unheard of in the days of the Hollywood studio system.
		What makes "The Towering Inferno" work so well is the cliffhanger aspect of the plot.
	www.elipsiselectronics.com /6305280762/The_Towering_Inferno.html (1456 words)

	Towering Inferno by Fred Kaplan
		And these figures do not include receipts on TOWERING INFERNO, which was released in late December 1974 and has been, at last count (late January l975), grossing an average of $722,000 per day.
		Thomas Scortia, co-author of one of the books on which TOWERING INFERNO is based, used to be a physiochemist.
		Every important official and socialite in San Francisco is celebrating the dedication of the city’s new 138-story office-and-apartment tower, the tallest building in the world, in the ballroom at the tower’s top floor.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/onlinessays/JC06folder/EarthqTowInferno.html (3218 words)

	Film Score Monthly.COM: Online Store
		The Towering Inferno (1974) was the biggest success of the Master of Disaster, Irwin Allen, and his last collaboration with the world's most famous film composer, John Williams.
		The Towering Inferno was both the summa of his work for Allen and a large-scale lead-in for his legendary run on 1970s and early '80s blockbusters for Steven Spielberg and George Lucas.
		The Towering Inferno was released on LP at the time of the movie, but the brief presentation omitted a great deal of the best music.
	www.screenarchives.com /fsm/detailCD.cfm?ID=180 (555 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Towering Inferno And Other Dis [Compilation] [Soundtrack] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Not surprisingly, John Williams was the master; his music for Towering Inferno (especially its lengthy title sequence featured on this disc) was as taught and dramatic as the film's stars' performances--and hairpieces--were ill-fitting and two-dimensional.
		The Towering Inferno and Other Disaster Classics showcases the most outstanding material from popular disaster flicks from the '70s through the '90s, capturing a dozen tracks by respected composers such as Jerry Goldsmith, James Newton Howard, Alan Silvestri, and John WIlliams.
		With respect to "Towering Inferno" the film's Main and End titles are showcased as well as an eleven minute section of the score that leads to the finale in the film, which is, to my liking, one of the most thrilling that Williams had composed up to that time.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000C2CX (884 words)

	The Towering Inferno Movie: The Towering Inferno DVD is available from Bestprices.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Warner Brothers, which owned Richard Martin Stern's "The Tower," and 20th Century Fox, which owned Thomas N. Scotia and Frank Robinson's "The Glass Inferno," joined artistic and financial forces to produce this film.
		During a celebratory party full of wealthy movers and shakers, the tower bursts into flames, and chaos erupts as the raging force of nature envelopes the structure.
		A courageous fire captain on the outside and the desperate architect trapped inside struggle to save the guests from the fire created by their greedy manipulations.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/086162104299IE (417 words)

	CBS News \| Towering Inferno In Caracas \| October 18, 2004 02:59:07
		Neighbors of the 56-story, 730-foot office tower were allowed to return to their residential buildings in downtown Caracas' Parque Central complex Sunday afternoon, but firefighters expected to work through the night to extinguish the last flames and keep them from spreading.
		The high temperatures also stopped firefighters from reaching the tower's upper floors, where the fire was strongest.
		More than 100 paintings and sculptures in the contemporary art museum next to the tower were put into a vault for safekeeping, a museum official said.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/10/18/world/main649824.shtml (438 words)

	PTC and BattleBots
		Towering Inferno can easily "crash and burn" its opponents.
		To build Towering Inferno's unique structure, Bardis selected PTC's Pro/ENGINEER based on its associativity, solid modeling and simulation capabilities that were necessary to create the prism-shaped cross section with two wheel modules connected by a chromoly shaft and the swinging hammers.
		"Towering Inferno involves very complex geometry that would be terribly difficult to machine precisely without Pro/ENGINEER," says Bardis.
	www.ptc.com /community/battlebots/towering_inferno.htm (206 words)

	Towering Inferno falls down for A-Farce
		The Towering Inferno is a film in which all does not end well for the tower.
		At around 15 feet tall in his stockinged feet and looking as heavy as, if not a skyscraper, at least a comfortable family home, this Towering Inferno was clearly about to suffer the same fate as his cinematic cousin, without being quite the crowd-pleaser that the movie was.
		While complimenting Audley on his efficient dismantling of the Towering Inferno, Invers gently introduced the topic of punter dissatisfaction, apparent from the booing that broke out at the end of the fight.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/4-22-2002-17062.asp (504 words)

	DVD Times - The Towering Inferno
		In the case of The Towering Inferno, it would have been unfortunate for the film to have been buried by all the intensity of the September 11th aftermath.
		In a bid to shut the tower down for the sake of further test measures, Doug is prevented by James Duncan (William Holden), the tower's owner, who fears that the disruption might prove disastrous for publicity.
		A couple of months later, the novel The Glass Inferno, written by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson was discovered by disaster movie supremo Irwin Allen and optioned for a sum in the same vicinity as The Tower for 20th Century Fox.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=5144 (1498 words)

	The Naudet Brothers's 911 Reviewed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Since planes are made largely of aluminum and the exterior of the North Tower was reinforced with steel that’s quite a trick.
		Having just videotaped the South Tower hit at 9:03 a.m., he manages to videotape an array of people who are not in shock from the incident.
		The Jamaican's claim of a plane striking the South Tower is supported by a particularly tough-looking Black man standing next to him.
	www.media-criticism.com /Naudet_Brothers_09_2004.html (1200 words)

	BBC - Films - review - The Towering Inferno DVD (1974)
		It's ironic that while "The Towering Inferno" is acknowledged as the classic titan of disaster films, it's treatment on video and TV has been so bad.
		The only extra is the trailer, which is punchy for its time but otherwise the lack of extras is a little disappointing.
		A special edition may one day come along but for now "The Towering Inferno" is a lot closer to its original glory and this is a good disc to have in the collection.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/09/26/towering_inferno_dvd_review.shtml (318 words)

	The Towering Inferno (1974) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The all-star blockbuster THE TOWERING INFERNO proves that you can make a bad film that still manages to be a great movie.
		THE TOWERING INFERNO is, of course, a disaster movie, the methodical destruction of a high-rise skyscraper, along with many of its tenants.
		As art, THE TOWERING INFERNO is a fizzle, but as a cheap carnival thrill show it's pretty hot stuff.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0072308 (630 words)

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