TheToweringInferno premiered on December 16, 1974. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and earned around $203.3 million, making it the highest-grossing film of 1974. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning three: Best Song, Best Cinematography and Best Editing.
Explore TheToweringInferno filming locations in San Francisco, from the iconic Glass Tower building toCityHall. Visit the real sites where this classic disaster film was shot.
At 12,530 feet thecityof Puno was built on thehigh-altitude Collao Plateau,toweringover Lake Tititaca. Incredibly, thecitysits 140 feet higher than the top of Mount Fuji!
Even today, there is ongoing debate among builders, safety experts and first responders about whether New YorkCityis doing enough to reduce the risks ofhigh-rise fire catastrophes—all as a new generation of supertall, super-skinny towers remakes thecity'sskyline.
Theinvestigative journalism siteCityLimits recently noted "for all its glitz and glamour, TheToweringInfern " fed off very real concerns of the modern-highrise buildings. …
Some eight million people call New YorkCityand its boroughs home, making the Big Apple the country's most populous metropolis. A veritable concrete jungle (particularly Manhattan), New YorkCityhas a tremendous number ofhigh-rise buildings, skyscrapers, andtoweringedifices at nearly every corner.
San Francisco is no stranger to disaster movies, or disasters. But before "Godzilla" (2014) smashed thecity, before "San Andreas" (2015) rocked the West Coast, there was "TheTowering...
