Product Description

Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Fred Astaire. A terrifying, star-studded thriller about what happens to a group of people when a skyscraper suddenly goes ablaze. 1974/color/165 min/PG.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19556 in DVD
• Color: Color
• Brand: NEWMAN,PAUL
• Released on: 2009-07-14
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: Spanish
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 165 minutes

Amazon.com essential video
Disaster movies used to work because there was little certainty as to who would survive. Not so in this film, really an amalgam of two original stories, about a group of well-to-do celebrants at the top floor of a skyscraper. Cheapo electrical wiring and bad construction management cause an enormous blaze at the lower floors, steadily rising to consume the revelers. Newman's an architect, McQueen a firefighter, and Fred Astaire a kind old gentleman, for which he was Oscar-nominated. O.J. Simpson plays a security guard who rescues a cat. Now that's a disaster. --Keith Simanton