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THE TOWERING INFERNO opens. Dir. John Guillermin from a screenplsay by Stirling Silliphant. Baed on the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. In San Francisco and out of control fire breaks out in a new 138 storey skyscraper trapping dozens of VIP guests. Clutching their paychecks, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Faye Dunaway head starry cast in the definitive disaster movie of the '70s. Film is a box-office blockbuster.
