THE TOWERING INFERNO opens. Directed by 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. An out of control fire breaks out in a new 138 storey San Francisco skyscraper trapping dozens of VIP guests. One of the 70s' most entertaining and successful disaster epics with Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Faye Dunaway head a starry cast.