History Film / TheToweringInferno

* HellishCopter

A 1974 DisasterMovie, co-directed and produced by Creator/IrwinAllen, and starring SteveMcQueen and PaulNewman. As well as having two directors, it was also the first Hollywood movie to come from two major studios; it was a co-production between TwentiethCenturyFox and WarnerBros The movie was based on two books, ''The Tower'' and ''The Glass Inferno''. Both books were bought by each studio, then someone realized that two movies about a skyscraper on fire would basically cannibalize both films, (as happened in the 1990s when the aforementioned 20th Century Fox released ''{{Volcano}}'' not long after {{Universal}} released ''Film/DantesPeak'', two films about sudden volcano eruptions) so to prevent this from happening it would be better for both studios to combine resources to make one BIG picture. (On a side note, ''The Glass Inferno'' was co-written by Thomas N. Scortia, who tends to write a lot of books about fires.)

A 1974 DisasterMovie, co-directed and produced by Creator/IrwinAllen, and starring SteveMcQueen and PaulNewman. As well as having two directors, it was also the first Hollywood movie to come from two major studios - it was a co-production between TwentiethCenturyFox and WarnerBros The movie was based on two books, ''The Tower'' and ''The Glass Inferno''. Both books were bought by each studio, then someone realized that two movies about a skyscraper on fire would basically cannibalize both films, (as happened in the 1990s when the aforementioned 20th Century Fox released ''{{Volcano}}'' not long after {{Universal}} released ''Film/DantesPeak'', two films about sudden volcano eruptions) so to prevent this from happening it would be better for both studios to combine resources to make one BIG picture. (On a side note, ''The Glass Inferno'' was co-written by Thomas N. Scortia, who tends to write a lot of books about fires.)

* JerkAss: Roger Simmons.
** KarmicDeath

* KarmaHoudini: Duncan, though compared to his son-in-law, he's more of TheAtoner when he realizes how bad he's screwed up.

A 1974 DisasterMovie, co-directed and produced by Creator/IrwinAllen, and starring SteveMcQueen and PaulNewman. As well as having two directors, it was also the first Hollywood movie to come from two major studios - it was a co-production between TwentiethCenturyFox and WarnerBros The movie was based on two books, ''The Tower'' and ''The Glass Inferno''. Both books were bought by each studio, then someone realized that two movies about a skyscraper on fire would basically cannibalize both films, (as happened in the 1990s when the aforementioned 20th Century Fox released ''{{Volcano}}'' not long after {{Universal}} released ''DantesPeak'', two films about sudden volcano eruptions) so to prevent this from happening it would be better for both studios to combine resources to make one BIG picture. (On a side note, ''The Glass Inferno'' was co-written by Thomas N. Scortia, who tends to write a lot of books about fires.)

* PlayingAgainstType: Richard Chamberlain made a career out of playing heroes, anti-heroes or sensitive guys. Here he's the JerkAss.

* ElevatorFailure

* AbsoluteCleavage: Faye Dunaway's evening gown along with a couple of other female guests at the party.

* KarmicDeath

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone

* DirtyCoward: Roger Simmons, who pushes a man clinging to the lift to his death.

!!TheToweringInferno features examples of:

* WhatTheHellHero: O'Hallorhan gives one of these to Roberts.

* DeathBySex: Bigelow and his secretary are killed almost immediately after a sexual rendezvous in his apartment....[[DeathByIrony just before the fire crew arrived on their level.]]

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Roberts and Chief O'Hallorhan. Both were essentially tough guys during their period in the movies, but =McQueen= was more commonly cast in "hardcore hero" roles.

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Roberts and Chief O'Hallorhan. Both were essentially tough guys during their period in the movies, but McQueen was more commonly cast in "hardcore hero" roles.

Faye Dunaway also appears as Newman's fiancee.

* SerialEscalation: Once the fire starts, the '''entire movie''' is an escalating series of bad situation, and most of the time, people die - some times, quite a few of them.

* ItGotWorse: Once the fire starts, the '''entire movie''' is an escalating series of these situations, and most of the time, people die - some times, quite a few of them.
* JohnWilliams: Composed the music score.

A 1974 DisasterMovie, co-directed and produced by Creator/IrwinAllen, and starring SteveMcQueen and PaulNewman. As well as having two directors, it was also the first Hollywood movie to come from two major studios - it was a co-production between TwentiethCenturyFox and WarnerBros The movie was based on two books, ''The Tower'' and ''The Glass Inferno''. Both books were bought by each studio, then someone realized that two movies about a skyscraper on fire would basically cannibalize both films, (as happened in the 1990s when the aforementioned 20th Century Fox released ''{{Volcano}}'' not long after {{Universal}} released ''DantesPeak'', two films about sudden volcano eruptions) so to prevent this from happening it would be better for both studios to combine resources to make one BIG picture. (On a side note, ''The Glass Inferno'' was co-written by Thomas N. Scortia, who tends to write a lot of books about out of control fires.)