Like Museum Tower, it was an iconic, skyline-defining project. The 60-story tower opened in October 1986, just in time for the S&L crisis, and it sank into foreclosure six months later.

On Dec. 16, 1974, 20th-Fox and Warner Bros. unveiled in theaters what would become a landmark disaster movie, The Towering Inferno.

Born on January 26, 1925, in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Paul Newman starred as Doug Roberts, the architect who designed the Glass Tower. Prior to The Towering Inferno Newman was already enjoying a ...

But it was 50 years ago, on Dec. 14, 1974, that Allen's Citizen Kane of disaster thrillers arrived.. With a $14 million budget — the most expensive film to date — The Towering Inferno was so ...

On Dec. 16, 1974, 20th-Fox and Warner Bros. unveiled in theaters what would become a landmark disaster movie: The 170-minute, John Guillermin-directed Towering Inferno. The movie, which took in ...

The Master of Disaster 20th Century Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures. The primary architect of The Towering Inferno‘s success was producer Irwin Allen, who made his name in the ’60s with ...

The Towering Inferno. ... The Museum Tower report, on the other hand, said that the increase in radiation would be less than 25 percent, only a sixth of the Nasher’s predicted gain.

On Dec. 16, 1974, 20th-Fox and Warner Bros. unveiled in theaters what would become a landmark disaster movie, The Towering Inferno. On Dec. 16, 1974, 20th-Fox and Warner Bros ...