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* ActionPolitician: Downplayed, but Mayor Ramsey and Senator Parker refuse to panic or capitalize on their status to try and get rescued over anyone else, help keep order among the panicked guests, and Parker races to try and stop Simmons and his companions from swamping the breeches buoy. [[AdaptedOut Governor Armitage and Senator Peters]] from ''The Tower'' also count, although [[DirtyCoward Congressman Wycoff is a subversion]].
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* ActionPolitician: Downplayed, but Mayor Ramsey and Senator Parker refuse to panic or capitalize on their status to try and get rescued over anyone else, both help keep order among the panicked guests, and Parker races to try and stop Simmons and his companions from swamping the breeches buoy. [[AdaptedOut Governor Armitage and Senator Peters]] from ''The Tower'' also count, although [[DirtyCoward Congressman Wycoff is a subversion]].
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In the film, a red-carpet party is being held in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco to celebrate the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper, the 138-story Glass Tower. One of the few not celebrating is [[TheHero the architect]], Doug Roberts (Newman), who's still upset that developer/builder Jim Duncan (Creator/WilliamHolden) authorized significant changes to the design during construction in the name of saving money. He's particularly annoyed at electrical contractor Roger Simmons (Creator/RichardChamberlain), who has shaved so much from the budget that the building's wiring is already showing signs of overload. It doesn't help that Simmons is also [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections Duncan's son-in-law]]. Duncan is so busy glad-handing and attempting to court Senator Gary Parker (Creator/RobertVaughn), to secure funding through the Urban Renewal Committee (that Parker chairs) to build more skyscrapers, that he doesn't have time to share Roberts' concerns.
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In the film, a red-carpet party gala is being held in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco to celebrate the opening dedication of the world's tallest skyscraper, the 138-story Glass Tower. One of the few not celebrating is [[TheHero the architect]], Doug Roberts (Newman), who's still upset that developer/builder Jim Duncan (Creator/WilliamHolden) authorized significant changes to the design during construction in the name of saving money. He's particularly annoyed at electrical contractor Roger Simmons (Creator/RichardChamberlain), who has shaved who's cut so much from the budget many corners that the building's wiring is already showing signs of overload. It doesn't help that Simmons is also [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections Duncan's son-in-law]]. Duncan is so busy glad-handing and attempting to court Senator Gary Parker (Creator/RobertVaughn), to secure funding through the Urban Renewal Committee (that (which Parker chairs) to build for the construction of more skyscrapers, that he doesn't have time to share Roberts' concerns.
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* WaterTowerDown: [[spoiler: The fire is resolved by blowing up the huge water tanks on the top of the building.]]
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* WaterTowerDown: [[spoiler: The fire is resolved by ending has the heroes blowing up the a set of huge water tanks on at the top of the building.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:building in an attempt to extinguish the fire. [[spoiler:It's what finally puts out the fire.]]
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** Also, confusingly [[spoiler: Duncan reams Simmons a new one when Simmons confirms that he did indeed wire the building with materials that were less than what Roberts' specs ordered. What makes it fall under here is the fact that only a few scenes later, Simmons gets right back in Duncan's face, mentioning how Duncan asked him if he could shave money off of his electrical budget, and also mentioning that Duncan shaved off millions of dollars elsewhere. It basically turns into a WhatTheHellHero moment, since not only is Duncan guilty of his own cost-cutting, but the suggestion for Simmons to cut his own costs down came from Duncan himself.]]
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** Also, confusingly [[spoiler: Duncan reams Simmons a new one when Simmons confirms that he did indeed wire the building with materials that were less than what Roberts' specs ordered. What makes it fall under here is the fact that only a few scenes later, Simmons gets right back in Duncan's face, mentioning how Duncan asked him if he could shave money off of his electrical budget, and also mentioning that Duncan shaved off millions of dollars elsewhere. It basically turns into a WhatTheHellHero moment, since not only is Duncan guilty of his own cost-cutting, but the suggestion for Simmons to cut his own costs down came from Duncan himself.himself, and makes the audience wonder why Duncan chewed Simmons out in the first place.]]
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: After pretty much establishing that the wiring in the building is faulty, [[spoiler: Duncan has no problem with having EVERY LIGHT IN THE BUILDING turned on for the grand opening ceremony. When Roberts and Giddings are doing their wiring inspection, Roberts grasps a conduit and it almost burns his hand. When he finds out from Wes that all the lights were turned on, he's mad as Hell. While the film focuses solely on the store room fire on 81, it's not difficult to assume that the fire ended up sparking on the floor Dan and Lorrie were on due to that earlier overload.]]
** Also, confusingly [[spoiler: Duncan reams Simmons a new one when Simmons confirms that he did indeed wire the building with materials that were less than what Roberts' specs ordered. What makes it fall under here is the fact that only a few scenes later, Simmons gets right back in Duncan's face, mentioning how Duncan asked him if he could shave money off of his electrical budget, and also mentioning that Duncan shaved off millions of dollars elsewhere. It basically turns into a WhatTheHellHero moment, since not only is Duncan guilty of his own cost-cutting, but the suggestion for Simmons to cut his own costs down came from Duncan himself.]]
** Also, confusingly [[spoiler: Duncan reams Simmons a new one when Simmons confirms that he did indeed wire the building with materials that were less than what Roberts' specs ordered. What makes it fall under here is the fact that only a few scenes later, Simmons gets right back in Duncan's face, mentioning how Duncan asked him if he could shave money off of his electrical budget, and also mentioning that Duncan shaved off millions of dollars elsewhere. It basically turns into a WhatTheHellHero moment, since not only is Duncan guilty of his own cost-cutting, but the suggestion for Simmons to cut his own costs down came from Duncan himself.]]
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* DiesDifferenlyInAdaptation:[[spoiler: Sen. Gary Parker (Jake Peters' counterpart) is killed when he accidentally gets pulled out with the breeches buoy trying to prevent Simmons from taking it, and being pushed to his death by Simmons. Mayor Robert Ramsay dies in the water tank explosion sequence. In the novel they both feature in, they're one of the many casualties of smoke inhalation, and both basically die unseen.]]
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* DiesDifferenlyInAdaptation:[[spoiler: DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler: Sen. Gary Parker (Jake Peters' counterpart) Peters in the novel) is killed when he accidentally gets pulled out with the breeches buoy trying to prevent Simmons from taking it, and being pushed to his death by Simmons. Mayor Robert Ramsay dies in the water tank explosion sequence. In the novel they both feature in, they're one of the many casualties of smoke inhalation, and both basically die unseen.]]
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* DiesDifferenlyInTheAdaptation:[[spoiler: Sen. Gary Parker (Jake Peters' counterpart) is killed when he accidentally gets pulled out with the breeches buoy trying to prevent Simmons from taking it, and being pushed to his death by Simmons. Mayor Robert Ramsay dies in the water tank explosion sequence. In the novel they both feature in, they're one of the many casualties of smoke inhalation, and both basically die unseen.]]
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* DiesDifferenlyInTheAdaptation:[[spoiler: DiesDifferenlyInAdaptation:[[spoiler: Sen. Gary Parker (Jake Peters' counterpart) is killed when he accidentally gets pulled out with the breeches buoy trying to prevent Simmons from taking it, and being pushed to his death by Simmons. Mayor Robert Ramsay dies in the water tank explosion sequence. In the novel they both feature in, they're one of the many casualties of smoke inhalation, and both basically die unseen.]]
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** Roberts makes a point of getting Lisolette Mueller a coveted place on the scenic elevator for its gravity brake descent, [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished due to her help in ushering the Allbright children to safety]]. An explosion during said descent sends her plummeting out of the elevator to her death.
** The water tank explosions to douse the fire at the end kill several people in their own right, most notably Carlos the bartender and Mayor Ramsay.
** The water tank explosions to douse the fire at the end kill several people in their own right, most notably Carlos the bartender and Mayor Ramsay.
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** [[spoiler: Roberts makes a point of getting Lisolette Mueller a coveted place on the scenic elevator for its gravity brake descent, [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished due to her help in ushering the Allbright children to safety]]. An explosion during said descent sends her plummeting out of the elevator to her death.
death. Made even worse by the fact that she was one of the initial evacuees from the tower room, but correctly assumed that the Allbrights missed the evacuation warning. Because she went to their floor to warn them (if she hadn't, they'd likely have died,) she is forced to return to the promenade room with Roberts and the children, which unfortunately results in her being in the scenic elevator at the worst possible time.]]
** The water tank explosions to douse the fire at the end killseveral many people in their own right, most notably Carlos the bartender and Mayor Ramsay.
** The water tank explosions to douse the fire at the end kill
* DiesDifferenlyInTheAdaptation:[[spoiler: Sen. Gary Parker (Jake Peters' counterpart) is killed when he accidentally gets pulled out with the breeches buoy trying to prevent Simmons from taking it, and being pushed to his death by Simmons. Mayor Robert Ramsay dies in the water tank explosion sequence. In the novel they both feature in, they're one of the many casualties of smoke inhalation, and both basically die unseen.]]
* FromBadToWorse: [[spoiler: Once the express elevator is put out of commission, the probability of survival grows dimmer and dimmer for the remaining trapped guests as both other escape options (The scenic elevator and the breeches buoy) end up being rendered useless by the middle of the third act. By the end, they're reduced to blowing the water tanks to dump a million gallons of water on the fire and tying themselves down in the desperate hope the water won't wash them out the windows. While some survive, many don't.]]
** Also happens with Dan and Lorrie. [[spoiler: The fire is big when they first notice it, but there's a possibility they might have made the stairs if they left then. They end up waiting, and the fire spreads to the interior of Dan Bigelow's office, meaning that when he makes his desperate escape attempt, he has to run through TWO rooms that are engulfed in flames. Bigelow doesn't make it, and Lorrie dies shortly after.]]
** Also happens with Dan and Lorrie. [[spoiler: The fire is big when they first notice it, but there's a possibility they might have made the stairs if they left then. They end up waiting, and the fire spreads to the interior of Dan Bigelow's office, meaning that when he makes his desperate escape attempt, he has to run through TWO rooms that are engulfed in flames. Bigelow doesn't make it, and Lorrie dies shortly after.]]
** In fairness, Doug Roberts shares the least in this. He left Duncan with detailed plans calling for better materials than were actually installed, and his only failure is going off site to work on another project before The Glass Tower was completed. Based on the opening of the film, it's clear that Roberts and Duncan have a strong working relationship and friendship, and he clearly seems to have left the project early simply because he assumed (and thought he could trust) Duncan to follow his plans to the letter. Duncan simply didn't.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Roger Simmons. Right to the end his motivation is to save his own ass. His KarmicDeath was his own fault.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Roger Simmons. [[spoiler: Right to the end his motivation is to save his own ass.ass, and his last action before he dies is to murder the U.S. Senator trying to stop him. His KarmicDeath was his own fault.]]
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* KarmicDeath: Simmons is the one most directly responsible for the fire's outbreak after having cut so many corners to save money on the building's electrical wiring. He further complicates the evacuation efforts in trying to get to the breeches buoy before everyone else, and commandeers it when the fire reaches their floor, pushing the innocent Sen. Parker and two of the men attempting to assist him in his mutiny to their deaths as they get stuck clinging to it after it slips out the window. This ultimately gets him killed as the buoy is severed and sent plummeting with him still clinging to it.
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** Also, [[spoiler: The two unnamed women who panic and rush the helipad (after Roberts expressly warned them not to) which causes the pilots to veer off, get caught in the wind, and die when the helicopter explodes. Not only do they survive, Roberts seems to have no problem letting them take up space in the final journey of the scenic elevator, despite the fact that their actions were almost entirely the reason the attempts to evacuate by helicopter were abandoned.]]
* KarmicDeath:Simmons [[spoiler: Simmons]] is the one most directly responsible for the fire's outbreak after having cut so many corners to save money on the building's electrical wiring. He further complicates the evacuation efforts in trying to get to the breeches buoy before everyone else, and commandeers it when the fire reaches their floor, pushing the innocent [[spoiler: Sen. Parker Parker]] and two of the men attempting to assist him in his mutiny to their deaths as they get stuck clinging to it after it slips out the window. This ultimately gets him killed as the buoy is severed and sent plummeting with him still clinging to it.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Duncan and Simmons for their roles in making the skyscraper unsafe. Roberts to a lesser extent. He leaves the project before it is complete, trusting Duncan and the contractors to follow his specs, but they don't, and he only finds out the day he gets back just how much they've ignored or cost cut on his original designs.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Duncan and Simmons for their roles in making the skyscraper unsafe. Roberts to a much lesser extent. He leaves the project before it is complete, trusting Duncan and the contractors to follow his specs, but they don't, and he only finds out the day he gets back just how much they've ignored or cost cut on his original designs. It seems Roberts and Duncan have a long history of working together with no issues, so it clearly never occurred to Roberts that Duncan would ever cost cut as extremely as he did.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Major characters can easily plummet to their deaths or get burned to a crisp. [[spoiler:Of the actors shown on the poster, Richard Chamberlain, Jennifer Jones, Robert Vaughn and Robert Wagner all have their characters die.]] Subverted in the sense that [[spoiler: unlike Film/ThePoseidonAdventure, which kills off main protagonist Frank Scott (Hackman) shortly before the film's end, none of the film's first tier billed stars (Newman, McQueen, Holden, or Dunaway) are killed off before the credits roll.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: Major characters can easily plummet to their deaths or get burned to a crisp. [[spoiler:Of the actors shown on the poster, Richard Chamberlain, Jennifer Jones, Robert Vaughn and Robert Wagner all have their characters die.]] Subverted in the sense that [[spoiler: unlike Film/ThePoseidonAdventure, which kills off main protagonist Frank Scott (Hackman) shortly before the film's end, none of the film's first tier billed stars (Newman, McQueen, [=McQueen=], Holden, or Dunaway) are killed off before the credits roll.]]
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* KnightInSourArmor: Chief O'Halloran is clearly sick and tired of saving [[TooDumbToLive stupid people]] from the consequences of their own [[IdiotPlot idiotic mistakes]], but he still keeps [[BigDamnHeroes charging into burning buildings]].
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* KnightInSourArmor: Chief O'Halloran is clearly sick and tired of saving [[TooDumbToLive stupid people]] from the consequences of their own [[IdiotPlot idiotic mistakes]], mistakes, but he still keeps [[BigDamnHeroes charging into burning buildings]].
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* DeathBySex: Bigelow and his secretary are killed almost immediately after a sexual rendezvous in his apartment... [[DeathByIrony just before the fire crew arrive on their level.]] To top it off, he actually disconnected his phone so as not to be disturbed during their activities. Had he not done so, he'd have been told about the fire right away.
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* SexSignalsDeath: Bigelow and his secretary are killed almost immediately after a sexual rendezvous in his apartment... [[DeathByIrony just before the fire crew arrive on their level.]] To top it off, he actually disconnected his phone so as not to be disturbed during their activities. Had he not done so, he'd have been told about the fire right away.
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* AbsoluteCleavage: Creator/FayeDunaway's evening gown along with some other female guests at the party.
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In the film, a red-carpet party is being held in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco to celebrate the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper, the 138-story Glass Tower. One of the few not celebrating is [[TheHero the architect]], Doug Roberts (Newman), who's still upset that developer/builder Jim Duncan (Creator/WilliamHolden) authorized significant changes to the design during construction in the name of saving money. He's particularly annoyed at electrical contractor Roger Simmons (Creator/RichardChamberlain), who has shaved so much from the budget that the building's wiring is already showing signs of overload. It doesn't help that Simmons is also [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections Duncan's son-in-law]]. Duncan is so busy glad handling and attempting to court Senator Gary Parker Creator/RobertVaughn, to secure funding through the Urban Renewal Committee (That Parker chairs) to build more skyscrapers that he doesn't have time to share Roberts' concerns.
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In the film, a red-carpet party is being held in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco to celebrate the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper, the 138-story Glass Tower. One of the few not celebrating is [[TheHero the architect]], Doug Roberts (Newman), who's still upset that developer/builder Jim Duncan (Creator/WilliamHolden) authorized significant changes to the design during construction in the name of saving money. He's particularly annoyed at electrical contractor Roger Simmons (Creator/RichardChamberlain), who has shaved so much from the budget that the building's wiring is already showing signs of overload. It doesn't help that Simmons is also [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections Duncan's son-in-law]]. Duncan is so busy glad handling glad-handing and attempting to court Senator Gary Parker Creator/RobertVaughn, (Creator/RobertVaughn), to secure funding through the Urban Renewal Committee (That (that Parker chairs) to build more skyscrapers skyscrapers, that he doesn't have time to share Roberts' concerns.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: After everything [[spoiler: Lisolette Mueller does to help in the film, her sudden death in the film strikes a sour note.
** Also, [[spoiler: Poor Carlos, who's as selfless as Lisolette is. It doesn't save him in the finale when the water tanks explode.
** Also, [[spoiler: Poor Carlos, who's as selfless as Lisolette is. It doesn't save him in the finale when the water tanks explode.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: After everything [[spoiler: Lisolette Mueller does to help in the film, her sudden death in the film strikes a sour note. \n]]
** Also, [[spoiler: Poor Carlos, who's as selfless as Lisolette is. It doesn't save him in the finale when the water tanks explode. ]]
** Also, [[spoiler: Poor Carlos, who's as selfless as Lisolette is. It doesn't save him in the finale when the water tanks explode.
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Senator Gary Parker. He's essentially murdered by Simmons when the breeches buoy falls out the window and Simmons is trying to eliminate the added weight. Plus, his death occurs right before the breeches buoy falls, and eliminates the only other means of escape beyond the blowing up of the water tanks, which means that the remaining men in the promenade room literally HAVE to rely on the water tank explosion plan to have any hope to survive. It's the last major sequence before the film's main finale.
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* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Senator Gary Parker. He's essentially murdered by Simmons when the breeches buoy falls out the window and Simmons is trying to eliminate the added weight. Plus, his death occurs right before the breeches buoy falls, and eliminates the only other means of escape beyond the blowing up of the water tanks, which means that the remaining men in the promenade room literally HAVE to rely on the water tank explosion plan to have any hope to survive. It's the last major sequence before the film's main finale.]]
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* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: Lisolette seemingly abandons Harlee Claiborne quite quickly when the evacuation first starts, until we see that she actually got out quickly because she correctly suspected the deaf Mrs. Allbright wouldn't hear the warning call to evacuate, and was trapped in a burning apartment. Lisolette goes through Hell during the movie. In fact, she was OUT. She could have simply assumed security would handle the Allbrights and could have evacuated to safety, but she didn't, and was proven right for doing so. Her reward is to be knocked out of the scenic elevator shortly before her safety was imminent. Even her last act is selfless, holding out Angela Albright so fireman Mark Powers could grab her before Lisolette takes her fatal plunge.]]
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** Also, Sen. Parker (Jake Peters in the novel) is a bigger participant in the book than the film. Vaughn gets a fair amount of screen time but very little dialogue after he suggests using the stairs to escape.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: Lisolette seemingly abandons Harlee Claiborne quite quickly when the evacuation first starts, until we see that she actually got out quickly because she correctly suspected the deaf Mrs. Allbright wouldn't hear the warning call to evacuate, and was trapped in a burning apartment. Lisolette goes through Hell during the movie. In fact, she was OUT. She could have simply assumed security would handle the Allbrights and could have evacuated to safety, but she didn't, and was proven right for doing so. Her reward is to be knocked out of the scenic elevator shortly before her safety was imminent. Even her last act is selfless, holding out Angela Albright so fireman Mark Powers could grab her before Lisolette takes her fatal plunge.]]
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: After everything [[spoiler: Lisolette Mueller does to help in the film, her sudden death in the film strikes a sour note.
** Also, [[spoiler: Poor Carlos, who's as selfless as Lisolette is. It doesn't save him in the finale when the water tanks explode.
** [[spoiler: Sen. Parker and Mayor Ramsay also qualify. Parker gets ignobly pushed to his death, and Ramsay, a moment after starting to relax during the final water tank explosion sequence, gets hit by a powerful blast of water from out of nowhere which snaps the rope tying him down, and sends him plunging into the huge fountain, where he drowns, or is killed by the fall.]]
** Also, [[spoiler: Poor Carlos, who's as selfless as Lisolette is. It doesn't save him in the finale when the water tanks explode.
** [[spoiler: Sen. Parker and Mayor Ramsay also qualify. Parker gets ignobly pushed to his death, and Ramsay, a moment after starting to relax during the final water tank explosion sequence, gets hit by a powerful blast of water from out of nowhere which snaps the rope tying him down, and sends him plunging into the huge fountain, where he drowns, or is killed by the fall.]]
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In the film, a red-carpet party is being held in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco to celebrate the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper, the 138-story Glass Tower. One of the few not celebrating is [[TheHero the architect]], Doug Roberts (Newman), who's still upset that developer/builder Jim Duncan (Creator/WilliamHolden) authorized significant changes to the design during construction in the name of saving money. He's particularly annoyed at electrical contractor Roger Simmons (Creator/RichardChamberlain), who has shaved so much from the budget that the building's wiring is already showing signs of overload. It doesn't help that Simmons is also [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections Duncan's son-in-law]]. Duncan is so busy glad handling and attempting to court Senator Gary Parker Creator/RobertVaughn to secure funding through the Urban Renewal Committee (That Parker chairs) to build more skyscrapers that he doesn't have time to share Roberts' concerns.
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A 1974 DisasterMovie produced by Creator/IrwinAllen, directed by John Guillermin and featuring an AllStarCast headed by [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] and Creator/PaulNewman. \n Or, headed by Creator/PaulNewman and [[Creator/SteveMcQueenActor Steve McQueen]] depending on how you view the billing.
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In the film, a red-carpet party is being held in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco to celebrate the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper, the 138-story Glass Tower. One of the few not celebrating is [[TheHero the architect]], Doug Roberts (Newman), who's still upset that developer/builder Jim Duncan (Creator/WilliamHolden) authorized significant changes to the design during construction in the name of saving money. He's particularly annoyed at electrical contractor Roger Simmons (Creator/RichardChamberlain), who has shaved so much from the budget that the building's wiring is already showing signs of overload. It doesn't help that Simmons is also [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections Duncan's son-in-law]]. Duncan is so busy glad handling and attempting to court Senator Gary Parker Creator/RobertVaughn to secure funding through the Urban Renewal Committee (That Parker chairs) to build more skyscrapers that he doesn't have time to share Roberts' concerns.
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** Doug Roberts is presented as a city boy architect who isn't cut out to tackle a project where there's nothing to do. [[spoiler: He ends up having to climb up and down a twisted metal railing to get Angela to safety when the stairs blow up, he makes his way around the flaming machinery room below the roof to cut enough systems to allow the scenic elevator to make one final trip to the plaza, and O'Halloran builds up enough trust in Roberts' abilities that he doesn't hesitate to include him in his plans to blow the water tanks, relying on Roberts' architectural knowledge to place the necessary C-4 charges to blow the floors under the water tanks unsupervised.
** Senator Parker [[spoiler: single-handedly attempts to prevent Simmons from cutting in line and remove him from the breeches buoy.]]
** Senator Parker [[spoiler: single-handedly attempts to prevent Simmons from cutting in line and remove him from the breeches buoy.]]
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** Doug Roberts is presented as a city boy architect who isn't cut out to tackle a project where there's nothing to do. [[spoiler: He ends up having to climb up and down a twisted metal railing to get Angela to safety when the stairs blow up, he makes his way around the flaming machinery room below the roof to cut enough systems to allow the scenic elevator to make one final trip to the plaza, and O'Halloran builds up enough trust in Roberts' abilities that he doesn't hesitate to include him in his plans to blow the water tanks, relying on Roberts' architectural knowledge to place the necessary C-4 charges to blow the floors under the water tanks unsupervised. \n]]
** Senator Parker [[spoiler: single-handedly attempts to prevent Simmons from cutting in line and remove him from the breeches buoy. It doesn't work out for him, but he attempted to do the right thing.]]
** Senator Parker [[spoiler: single-handedly attempts to prevent Simmons from cutting in line and remove him from the breeches buoy. It doesn't work out for him, but he attempted to do the right thing.]]
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** Doug's and Susan's reactions to the [[spoiler: helicopter explosion on the roof. Similar reactions are shown on the faces of Duncan, Ramsey, and Parker when they see the flaming helicopter wreckage falling down in front of the promenade room windows.]]
** O'Halloran's reaction when the city's fire chief and deputy inform him that [[spoiler: not only are they relying on him to take the necessary charges to the roof to blow up the water tanks in an attempt to drown the fire, but that once he's up there, they have no way to get him back down, and he's going to have to ride out the wave of water with the rest of the trapped people in the tower room.]]
-->'''O'Halloran''': How do I get back down? *silence* Oh SHIT.
** O'Halloran's reaction when the city's fire chief and deputy inform him that [[spoiler: not only are they relying on him to take the necessary charges to the roof to blow up the water tanks in an attempt to drown the fire, but that once he's up there, they have no way to get him back down, and he's going to have to ride out the wave of water with the rest of the trapped people in the tower room.]]
-->'''O'Halloran''': How do I get back down? *silence* Oh SHIT.
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** When Simmons commandeers the breeches buoy, [[spoiler: Sen. Parker and Mayor Ramsey immediately rush to stop him and get him out so the next survivor in order can go. Parker even gets a hold of the breeches buoy and attempts to pull Simmons out of it, and pull it further inside so Simmons can't use it, but because of the combined weight of Parker, Simmons, and two other would-be mutineers on the buoy, the hauling rope gets too heavy for the men holding the lines to keep it inside. It slips out the window with all four men on it, and poor Parker gets murdered by Simmons in Simmons' own efforts to save himself.]]
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* KarmicDeath: Simmons is the one most directly responsible for the fire's outbreak after having cut so many corners to save money on the building's electrical wiring. He further complicates the evacuation efforts in trying to get to the breeches buoy before everyone else, and commandeers it when the fire reaches their floor, pushing several innocent men to their deaths as they try to stop him. This ultimately gets him killed as the buoy is severed and sent plummeting with him still clinging to it.
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* KarmicDeath: Simmons is the one most directly responsible for the fire's outbreak after having cut so many corners to save money on the building's electrical wiring. He further complicates the evacuation efforts in trying to get to the breeches buoy before everyone else, and commandeers it when the fire reaches their floor, pushing several the innocent Sen. Parker and two of the men attempting to assist him in his mutiny to their deaths as they try get stuck clinging to stop him.it after it slips out the window. This ultimately gets him killed as the buoy is severed and sent plummeting with him still clinging to it.
** After a gas leak explosion in a stairwell blows apart several floors worth of stairs that Roberts, Lisolette, and the Allbright children are using to evacuate, [[spoiler: Roberts slips and slides down the twisted metal railing and barely manages to stop himself before he runs out of railing to grasp and he falls to his death. Phillip Allbright and Lisolette have to traverse it for roughly two floors to get to the 83rd floor, and Roberts goes back up it and down it to get Angela Allbright to safety.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Duncan and Roberts for their roles in making the skyscraper unsafe.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Duncan and Roberts Simmons for their roles in making the skyscraper unsafe.unsafe. Roberts to a lesser extent. He leaves the project before it is complete, trusting Duncan and the contractors to follow his specs, but they don't, and he only finds out the day he gets back just how much they've ignored or cost cut on his original designs.
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** Roberts uses one on Duncan when chewing him out about cutting corners on the building.
** "Tie yourselves down, Goddammit!!!"
** "Oh they'll find some dumb sonnuvabitch to do it."
** "Tie yourselves down, Goddammit!!!"
** "Oh they'll find some dumb sonnuvabitch to do it."
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building. "I'm just as guilty as you and that GOD DAMN son-in-law of yours."
** Sen. Parker gets a small one when Simmons and his mutinous group attempt to commandeer the breeches buoy. "You crazy bastards! Get off this line!"
** Mayor Ramsey as they prepare for the water tanks to be blown. "Tie yourselves down, Goddammit!!!"
** O'Halloran to Roberts when Roberts asks how they plan to get the explosives to the top of the building to blow the water tanks. "Oh they'll find some dumb sonnuvabitch to do it.""
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: [[spoiler: In the initial shooting script, Mayor Ramsey was going to die when the breeches buoy falls, and Senator Parker was supposed to be killed off during the exploding water tank sequence. Due to his role being cut down during filming, and due to his desire to marry future wife Linda Staab, Creator/RobertVaughn asked that the deaths of the characters be flip-flopped so he could leave the production sooner and marry Staab. This is likely the reason why it's the only time in the film where two second-tier stars (Vaughn and Creator/RichardChamberlain) essentially die at the same time. All of the other major star deaths are spaced out, or include third-tier billed characters (such as Creator/RobertWagner and Susan Flannery both dying moments apart.]]
** Sen. Parker gets a small one when Simmons and his mutinous group attempt to commandeer the breeches buoy. "You crazy bastards! Get off this line!"
** Mayor Ramsey as they prepare for the water tanks to be blown. "Tie yourselves down, Goddammit!!!"
** O'Halloran to Roberts when Roberts asks how they plan to get the explosives to the top of the building to blow the water tanks. "Oh they'll find some dumb sonnuvabitch to do it.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: [[spoiler: In the initial shooting script, Mayor Ramsey was going to die when the breeches buoy falls, and Senator Parker was supposed to be killed off during the exploding water tank sequence. Due to his role being cut down during filming, and due to his desire to marry future wife Linda Staab, Creator/RobertVaughn asked that the deaths of the characters be flip-flopped so he could leave the production sooner and marry Staab. This is likely the reason why it's the only time in the film where two second-tier stars (Vaughn and Creator/RichardChamberlain) essentially die at the same time. All of the other major star deaths are spaced out, or include third-tier billed characters (such as Creator/RobertWagner and Susan Flannery both dying moments apart.]]
* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler: Dan Bigelow. He's played by Creator/RobertWagner, he's closely tied with Jim Duncan, and he has a secret, yet sweet relationship with his secretary. He's killed off barely an hour into the film to shock the audience and let them know that no one is safe.]]
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Senator Gary Parker. He's essentially murdered by Simmons when the breeches buoy falls out the window and Simmons is trying to eliminate the added weight. Plus, his death occurs right before the breeches buoy falls, and eliminates the only other means of escape beyond the blowing up of the water tanks, which means that the remaining men in the promenade room literally HAVE to rely on the water tank explosion plan to have any hope to survive. It's the last major sequence before the film's main finale.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Senator Gary Parker. He's essentially murdered by Simmons when the breeches buoy falls out the window and Simmons is trying to eliminate the added weight. Plus, his death occurs right before the breeches buoy falls, and eliminates the only other means of escape beyond the blowing up of the water tanks, which means that the remaining men in the promenade room literally HAVE to rely on the water tank explosion plan to have any hope to survive. It's the last major sequence before the film's main finale.
** Also, while Duncan touts the building's "many modern safety features," to O'Halloran, many of them are notably absent either due to cost cutting, or due to being neglected in the haste to get the building open. As Roberts points out to Duncan later, duct holes have no fire stops, a fan in the room that initially catches fire should have reversed to prevent feeding the fire oxygen, but it doesn't, and thus fans the flames instead. The sprinklers on the floor where the initial fire is and in other parts of the building fail to function, and corridors have no fire doors, all of which turn the building into a tinderbox. While the film doesn't explicitly state why the equipment is absent or non-functional, it's hinted that it's due to Duncan's attempts to cost-cut the project due to lack of funds to complete it.
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* SuitWithVestedInterests: The developer James Duncan tries to thwart both the architect and the city's fire chief when they urge the top floor be evacuated during the opening gala due to the fire some stories below (it would clearly and embarrassingly undercut his previous public assertions that this record-breaking building was safe). Duncan even tries to pull rank on the fire chief by mentioning the presence of a U.S. senator; the chief retorts that in an emergency, he outranks everyone there.
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** Especially present in the finale, [[spoiler: where Roberts and O'Halloran use C-4 explosives to not only blow the water tanks, but to blow the floors underneath them so the water can flow down through the building and put out the fire. Two huge explosions occur right before the deaths of Carlos and Mayor Ramsay, and the first topples a statue above the bar, which breaks and crushes Carlos' chest.]]
* SuitWithVestedInterests: The developer James Duncan tries to thwart both the architect and the city's fire chief when they urge the top floor be evacuated during the opening gala due to the fire some stories below (it would clearly and embarrassingly undercut his previous public assertions that this record-breaking building was safe). Duncan even tries to pull rank on the fire chief by mentioning the presence of a U.S. senator; as well as San Francisco's mayor, the chief retorts that in an emergency, he outranks everyone there.
* SuitWithVestedInterests: The developer James Duncan tries to thwart both the architect and the city's fire chief when they urge the top floor be evacuated during the opening gala due to the fire some stories below (it would clearly and embarrassingly undercut his previous public assertions that this record-breaking building was safe). Duncan even tries to pull rank on the fire chief by mentioning the presence of a U.S. senator; as well as San Francisco's mayor, the chief retorts that in an emergency, he outranks everyone there.
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** Dan Bigelow. [[spoiler: After remembering that he switched off the phones, he then waits and allows the fire to spread from the outer office into his own interior office. This means that when he decides to make a run for it to get help, he has to run through two burning rooms instead of one. While the outcome may have been the same, Bigelow would have stood a much better chance of pulling off his heroic run if he'd done so when the fire was limited just to the outer reception area of 65. Because he waited, he's in flames almost immediately when he enters his own office, and is almost fully engulfed by the time he makes it to the outer office and collapses.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: While it didn't work out for him at all, you have to give props to Dan Bigelow for making it through his burning office and into the burning reception area while engulfed in flames before it finally became too much to overcome and he dies. He almost makes you believe that, while he's going to be horribly burned in consequence, he's going to pull it off.]]
** Doug Roberts is presented as a city boy architect who isn't cut out to tackle a project where there's nothing to do. [[spoiler: He ends up having to climb up and down a twisted metal railing to get Angela to safety when the stairs blow up, he makes his way around the flaming machinery room below the roof to cut enough systems to allow the scenic elevator to make one final trip to the plaza, and O'Halloran builds up enough trust in Roberts' abilities that he doesn't hesitate to include him in his plans to blow the water tanks, relying on Roberts' architectural knowledge to place the necessary C-4 charges to blow the floors under the water tanks unsupervised.
** Senator Parker [[spoiler: single-handedly attempts to prevent Simmons from cutting in line and remove him from the breeches buoy.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler: While it didn't work out for him at all, you have to give props to Dan Bigelow for making it through his burning office and into the burning reception area while engulfed in flames before it finally became too much to overcome and he dies. He almost makes you believe that, while he's going to be horribly burned in consequence, he's going to pull it off.]]
** Doug Roberts is presented as a city boy architect who isn't cut out to tackle a project where there's nothing to do. [[spoiler: He ends up having to climb up and down a twisted metal railing to get Angela to safety when the stairs blow up, he makes his way around the flaming machinery room below the roof to cut enough systems to allow the scenic elevator to make one final trip to the plaza, and O'Halloran builds up enough trust in Roberts' abilities that he doesn't hesitate to include him in his plans to blow the water tanks, relying on Roberts' architectural knowledge to place the necessary C-4 charges to blow the floors under the water tanks unsupervised.
** Senator Parker [[spoiler: single-handedly attempts to prevent Simmons from cutting in line and remove him from the breeches buoy.]]
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*** Congressman Cary Wycoff, who has Simmons role as the main rabble rouser inside of the building, and his older, cool-headed contemporary Jake Peters.
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*** Congressman Cary Wycoff, who has Simmons role as the main rabble rouser inside of the building, and his older, cool-headed contemporary Jake Peters. However, some of the elements of the Jake Peters character are carried over into Vaughn's role as Sen. Gary Parker, including his assistance in loading the breeches buoy, though Vaughn is younger than the novel counterpart.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Major characters can easily plummet to their deaths or get burned to a crisp. [[spoiler:Of the actors shown on the poster, Richard Chamberlain, Jennifer Jones, Robert Vaughn and Robert Wagner all have their characters die.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: Major characters can easily plummet to their deaths or get burned to a crisp. [[spoiler:Of the actors shown on the poster, Richard Chamberlain, Jennifer Jones, Robert Vaughn and Robert Wagner all have their characters die.]] Subverted in the sense that [[spoiler: unlike Film/ThePoseidonAdventure, which kills off main protagonist Frank Scott (Hackman) shortly before the film's end, none of the film's first tier billed stars (Newman, McQueen, Holden, or Dunaway) are killed off before the credits roll.]]
** Also, Doug Roberts. Despite the fact that the substandard materials were used without his knowledge, while he was away viewing another potential project, he blames himself for what happened and this also seems to fuel him slightly in his efforts to help the others.
-->'''Roberts''': The building code...Oh Jesus. Building code. Come on, Dunc. I mean that's a standard cop-out when you're in trouble. See, I was crawlin' around up there. I mean duct holes weren't fire stopped. Corridors without fire doors in it...The sprinklers won't work. And an electrical system that's good for what? I mean it's good for startin' fires! Hoo boy, where was I when all this was goin' on? Because I'm just as guilty as you and that GOD DAMN son-in-law of yours...What do they call it when you kill people?
-->'''Roberts''': The building code...Oh Jesus. Building code. Come on, Dunc. I mean that's a standard cop-out when you're in trouble. See, I was crawlin' around up there. I mean duct holes weren't fire stopped. Corridors without fire doors in it...The sprinklers won't work. And an electrical system that's good for what? I mean it's good for startin' fires! Hoo boy, where was I when all this was goin' on? Because I'm just as guilty as you and that GOD DAMN son-in-law of yours...What do they call it when you kill people?
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* BittersweetEnding: Despite O'Hallorhan's report that the loss of life in the disaster could've been a lot worse, we are still left with the haunting images of the nearly 200 people who didn't survive the blaze and with a grim lesson in what happens when architectural safety in a high-rise building is compromised. [[spoiler:Not to mention that San Francisco loses both their senator and their mayor.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: Despite O'Hallorhan's report that the loss of life in the disaster could've been a lot worse, we are still left with the haunting images of the nearly 200 people who didn't survive the blaze and with a grim lesson in what happens when architectural safety in a high-rise building is compromised. [[spoiler:Not to mention that San Francisco loses both their mayor, and one U.S. state loses its sitting U.S. Senator. It's unknown whether Sen. Parker is actually a senator from California, or another state. His presence at the party is because Duncan is trying to coax him into giving him funding though the Urban Renewal Committee Parker is the Chairman of. Whatever the case, the film kills him off.]]
** Also, after surviving the explosions andtheir mayor.millions of gallons of water being dumped on him, [[spoiler: Harlee Claiborne makes it to the lobby only to discover that Lisolette Mueller was killed and isn't waiting for him. He initially refuses to believe it until Jernigan presses Lisolette's cat Elke into his arms. The look of sudden acceptance on his face says it all.]]
** Also, after surviving the explosions and
** Also, Sen. Parker (Jake Peters in the novel) is a bigger participant in the book than the film. Vaughn gets a fair amount of screen time but very little dialogue after he suggests using the stairs to escape.
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* DirtyCoward: Roger Simmons, who takes the lift before his turn and pushes Senator Parker and another man clinging to it to their deaths.
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* DirtyCoward: Roger Simmons, [[spoiler: who takes the lift before his turn and pushes Senator Parker (Who was trying to stop him) and another man clinging to it to their deaths.deaths, and attempts to push off another man before the rope snaps and they both fall.]]
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* ElevatorFailure: Though there are no falling elevators, there are plenty of gruesome scenes involving them, including a ''mass of burning people in a cab''.
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* ElevatorFailure: Though there are no falling elevators, there are plenty of gruesome scenes involving them, including a ''mass of burning people in a cab''. Also [[spoiler: The fire makes the express elevators useless during the top floor evacuation, and when the electrical system fails halfway through the film, the scenic elevator, at that point the only functioning elevator remaining, becomes virtually useless, and is only able to be of use once more when Roberts rigs it to make one final trip to the plaza through gravity.]]
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** The creepiest bit of foreshadowing occurs [[spoiler: right after the reveal that Dan and Lorie are lovers. A few strains of "We May Never Love Like This Again," play via electric piano on the soundtrack while they kiss. What makes it creepy is that it's accurate. Both characters end up being killed off shortly afterwards, and thus they truly never do "love like this again."]]
** In a deleted scene, Jim Duncan reveals to Sen. Parker and the rest of the group that while the building has three scenic elevators, only one is operational, leading Sen. Parker to quip that he hopes Duncan guides them to the right one. [[spoiler: Once the express elevators are rendered useless due to the fire in the central core, the remaining trapped party goers are hampered in their evacuation because the scenic elevator moves up and down a lot more slowly than the express elevator, and because the other two scenic elevators are not operational, instead of evacuating 36 people at a time, they can only evacuate 12 people at a time, rather slowly. Then the power goes out and they can't even evacuate at all.]]
** In a deleted scene, Jim Duncan reveals to Sen. Parker and the rest of the group that while the building has three scenic elevators, only one is operational, leading Sen. Parker to quip that he hopes Duncan guides them to the right one. [[spoiler: Once the express elevators are rendered useless due to the fire in the central core, the remaining trapped party goers are hampered in their evacuation because the scenic elevator moves up and down a lot more slowly than the express elevator, and because the other two scenic elevators are not operational, instead of evacuating 36 people at a time, they can only evacuate 12 people at a time, rather slowly. Then the power goes out and they can't even evacuate at all.]]
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** To a lesser extent, Jim Duncan, at least in the beginning. He's warned by Roberts that there's a fire on 81 but refuses to take action due to the optics until O'Halloran shows up and forces his hand. This is somewhat subverted however, as once O'Halloran does get him to start evacuating, Duncan really steps up to the plate and (assisted by Sen. Parker and Mayor Ramsey) does as much as he can to get people out of the promenade room and to safety.
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*** Mark's rookie partner and high school classmate Dave Lencho.
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*** Mark's rookie partner teammate and high school classmate Dave Lencho.
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Sure enough, because of the faulty wiring resulting from said cut corners, a short circuit in a janitor's closet grows into a massive fire. As the guests become trapped in the building, it falls on [[DaChief fire chief]] Michael O'Hallorhan ([=McQueen=]) and the San Francisco Fire Department to help save the day.
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Sure enough, because of the faulty wiring resulting from said cut corners, a short circuit in a janitor's closet quickly grows into a massive fire. As the guests become trapped in the building, it falls on [[DaChief fire chief]] Michael O'Hallorhan ([=McQueen=]) and the San Francisco Fire Department to help save the day.
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Sure enough, because of the faulty wiring resulting from said cut corners, a short circuit in a janitor's closet grows into a massive fire. As the guests become trapped in the building, it falls on [[DaChief Fire Chief]] Michael O'Hallorhan ([=McQueen=]) and the San Francisco Fire Department to help save the day.
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Sure enough, because of the faulty wiring resulting from said cut corners, a short circuit in a janitor's closet grows into a massive fire. As the guests become trapped in the building, it falls on [[DaChief Fire Chief]] fire chief]] Michael O'Hallorhan ([=McQueen=]) and the San Francisco Fire Department to help save the day.
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Sure enough, because of the faulty wiring resulting from said cut corners, a short circuit in a janitor's closet grows into a massive fire. As the guests become trapped in the building, it falls on [[DaChief Fire Chief Micheal O'Hallorhan]] ([=McQueen=]) and the San Francisco Fire Department to help save the day.
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Sure enough, because of the faulty wiring resulting from said cut corners, a short circuit in a janitor's closet grows into a massive fire. As the guests become trapped in the building, it falls on [[DaChief Fire Chief Micheal O'Hallorhan]] Chief]] Michael O'Hallorhan ([=McQueen=]) and the San Francisco Fire Department to help save the day.
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''The Towering Inferno'' was the first Hollywood movie to come from ''two'' major studios -- it was a joint production between Creator/WarnerBros and Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox. The story was based on two similarly-plotted novels, ''The Tower'' and ''The Glass Inferno''. Warner had purchased the film rights to the former, and Fox the latter; Producer Irwin Allen realized that two DuelingMovies about a skyscraper on fire would basically cannibalize the audience for both films (as would happen a couple decades later, when the aforementioned 20th Century Fox released ''Film/{{Volcano}}'' not long after Creator/{{Universal}} released ''[[Film/DantesPeak Dante's Peak]]'', both films dealing with sudden volcano eruptions). To prevent this from happening it was decided 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.)
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''The Towering Inferno'' was the first Hollywood movie to come from ''two'' major studios -- it was a joint production between Creator/WarnerBros and Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox. The story was based on two similarly-plotted novels, ''The Tower'' and ''The Glass Inferno''. Warner had purchased the film rights to the former, and Fox the latter; Producer producer Irwin Allen realized that two DuelingMovies about a skyscraper on fire would basically cannibalize the audience for both films (as would happen a couple decades later, when the aforementioned 20th Century Fox released ''Film/{{Volcano}}'' not long after Creator/{{Universal}} released ''[[Film/DantesPeak Dante's Peak]]'', both films dealing with sudden volcano eruptions). To prevent this from happening it was decided 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.)
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''The Towering Inferno'' was the first Hollywood movie to come from ''two'' major studios -- it was a co-production between Creator/WarnerBros and Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox. The story was based on two similarly-plotted novels, ''The Tower'' and ''The Glass Inferno''. Warner had purchased the film rights to the former, and Fox the latter; Producer Irwin Allen realized that two DuelingMovies about a skyscraper on fire would basically cannibalize the audience for both films (as would happen a couple decades later, when the aforementioned 20th Century Fox released ''Film/{{Volcano}}'' not long after Creator/{{Universal}} released ''[[Film/DantesPeak Dante's Peak]]'', both films dealing with sudden volcano eruptions). To prevent this from happening it was decided 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.)
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''The Towering Inferno'' was the first Hollywood movie to come from ''two'' major studios -- it was a co-production joint production between Creator/WarnerBros and Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox. The story was based on two similarly-plotted novels, ''The Tower'' and ''The Glass Inferno''. Warner had purchased the film rights to the former, and Fox the latter; Producer Irwin Allen realized that two DuelingMovies about a skyscraper on fire would basically cannibalize the audience for both films (as would happen a couple decades later, when the aforementioned 20th Century Fox released ''Film/{{Volcano}}'' not long after Creator/{{Universal}} released ''[[Film/DantesPeak Dante's Peak]]'', both films dealing with sudden volcano eruptions). To prevent this from happening it was decided 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.)
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In the film, a red-carpet party is being held in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco to celebrate the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper, the 138-story Glass Tower. One of the few not celebrating is [[TheHero the architect]], Doug Roberts (Newman), who's still upset that developer/builder Jim Duncan (Creator/WilliamHolden) made significant changes to the design during construction in the name of saving money. He's particularly annoyed at electrical contractor Roger Simmons (Creator/RichardChamberlain) who has shaved so much from the budget that the building's wiring is already showing signs of overload. It doesn't help that he's also [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections Duncan's son-in-law]].
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In the film, a red-carpet party is being held in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco to celebrate the opening of the world's tallest skyscraper, the 138-story Glass Tower. One of the few not celebrating is [[TheHero the architect]], Doug Roberts (Newman), who's still upset that developer/builder Jim Duncan (Creator/WilliamHolden) made authorized significant changes to the design during construction in the name of saving money. He's particularly annoyed at electrical contractor Roger Simmons (Creator/RichardChamberlain) (Creator/RichardChamberlain), who has shaved so much from the budget that the building's wiring is already showing signs of overload. It doesn't help that he's Simmons is also [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections Duncan's son-in-law]].
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* AdultFear: There were ''children'' in the building, and if it hadn't been for Roberts...
