Towering Inferno 1974 ( FILMING LOCATION ) Steve McQueen Paul Newman
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The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American action disaster film produced by Irwin Allen featuring an all-star cast led by Steve McQueen and Paul Newman. It was directed by John Guillermin. The score was composed and conducted by John Williams
The entrance to the doomed tower: Bank of America World Headquarters, California Street, San Francisco
The lobby: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Embarcadero Center, San Francisco
The mansion of snivelly cheapskate electrician Roger Simmons (Richard Chamberlain) is 2898 Vallejo Street at Baker Street, in the classy Pacific Heights district.
The Fire station is located at 2898 Vallejo St, San Francisco, CA 94123
I remember seeing this in the theatre when it first came out. They actually had an intermission....Still one of the best disaster movies of all time...
Same here
I m sorry I don t agree with you LIMACK I first saw it Christmas 1974 at a movie theater I hated it I still do
@@robertmoir5695 oh well
I love the Irwin Allen movies! 'Towering Inferno' is great! but I am still partial to 'The Poseidon Adventure'!
I remember movies back in the day had a intermission, Tora Tora Tora had a intermission and its like that on the DVD too
Saw this movie with my Dad at the drive in. I was 15. Right at the point where they blow up the water tank, it started raining. Huge downpour. We went nuts laughing but still were so involved with the excitement of the movie. Greatest movie experience of my life. We woke everyone up when we got home, we were still so excited. Even the neighbors. Mom thought we were drunk.
The best of the disaster movies of the 1970's, still a good watch even now.
Not enough blind and deaf kids stuck on a pole, somehow... Irwin Allen signature...
A classic disaster film
Thanks 👌
I love the old classic disaster movie, hope they can do a re-make of the new version of "The Towering Inferno."
POSEIDON
The interior of the lobby was filmed partly in the then Bank of America world Headquarters building & the interior of the Hyatt Embarcadero at the foot of Market Street across from Embarcadero Center & 3 blocks from the Ferry Building.
When Faye Dunaway is taken from the gondola at the end, theres'a a fireman that says: "Let's go." That is my uncle. He was one of many Los Angeles City firemen that were in the movie. San Francisco and Los Angeles firemen were used to make this film.
thats fantastic hearing your uncle was in this movie.
That's so very cool!
What was/is his name?
Awesome! It wouldn’t be real without real firefighters showing us their skills throughout the film! Love the film. Love the music score. Sadly it’s a film we can all relate to in this post 9-11 world now.
Bull shit
One of the few movies that ever gave my dad nightmares. He was terrified of fire, but having a Huey shot out from under you would do that to a person. I was nine, and I woke up hearing him yelling about fire - I thought the house was on fire. I ran out into the living room, and he was in a ball in the corner crying and shaking, with my mom trying to get him back to bed. Nobody knew about PTSD, or triggers, or we’d have never gone to see the movie. Miss you, Daddy. Please be at peace. Loved you then, love you now, love you always....
Wow. Posthumous thanks to your father for his service
Another thanks for his service from a USAF daughter. My dad has PTSD and I do as well (I am not in service, but suffered other trauma). I truly feel this comment and had to send my love. ❤
OMG I Can't Believe Its Been Almost 50 years Ago. I Was Standing With The Film Crew And Stood In The Background And Watched ,Paul Newman, William Holden, And Many Other Stars Acting In Their Rolls. I Was Thrown Out Of The Bank Of America Lobby About 4 Times By The Same Motorcycle Cop And Kept On Sneaking Back In . I Was There For About 9 Hours And I Began To Lose Interest And I Decided To Go Home . As I Was Leaving I Noticed That There Was A Secret Scene Being Filmed In The Back Of The Parking Lot And I Was In My Glory When I Watched STEVE MCQUEEN Act On A Scene. I Am 65 Years Old Now And SAN FRANCISCO Is The Best City In The World And The Closest Second Is MONTREAL CANADA
We filmed the dedication scene around midnight. It was freezing out there on the plaza. Earlier I watched them filmed the approaching firetrucks as they came down Kearney Street from Columbus Avenue.
I read the book in 1973 "The Tower" then saw this in a theater in 1974...was a big event!
Don’t forget to read “the Glass Inferno”! That book also inspired The Towering Inferno!
One of the best films ever..
I first saw it at the theatre..
Raced out at interval to tell our babysitter not to turn electric blankets on prior to us coming home as l was paranoid about 🔥
Fantastic cast ..
Enjoying it again on Utube 47 years later ..
Thank you 🔥
Thank you.
I also enjoyed it, at Leicester Square Cinema; London.
I'm from Kensington and Chelsea; in London.
Best wishes, from across the pond.
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How paranoid were you of the kids swimming after watching Jaws? 😁
This and the Poseidon Adventure were the 2 best disaster movies of the '70's. I was in junior high and went to the movies every Saturday night.
A great movie that still holds up well today. I saw it in the theater as a kid and bought it when it came out on DVD and later on bluray.
In 1973/74 I got my first job in Hollywood working as a second assistant film editor for a company called Javelin Films which was housed in a office building on Cahuenga Blvd West just up the street from Hanna-Barbera and across the 101 Freeway from Universal Studios. In the same offices were a collection of other ”Hollywood” shops one being Van De Veer Photo Effects run by a father and son team, Frank & Greg. I befriended Greg who I would drop by and visit on occasion. One day in the parking lot out behind the building Frank and Greg had set up a table with a model of a tall building on top of it. For a couple days they were out back torching this model (probably a couple of them) while of course filming it. Greg let me hang out while he and Dad worked their magic. It was great fun to watch and then later see on the big screen.
Went to SF recently on holiday from Melbourne, Australia with my wife. I Googled film locations for this flick on the spur of the moment and realised we were only a couple of blocks from the building's forecourt at the Bank of America. Was a blast standing in that exact spot. Got a happy snap of course.
You truly are an artist, my friend. These movie companies should be thankful that you are bringing new attention to movies that are sometimes forgotten. Thanks for going through all this trouble to entertain us. Best wishes to you! Stay safe!
I was seven years old when this film came out, and it scared the living shit out of me--so much so that, to this day, my greatest fear is dying in a fire.
The magnificent Hotel Lobby looks so different without all its beautiful trees and greenery on all the floors balconies. The Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta once looked much like this one did in the movie. It was glorious with its glass elevators, trees, flowers, water features and canal in the center. Today its just a concrete lobby. So sad.
On our last trip to San Francisco we booked in the hotel across the street from the building they used in the film. It was a wonderful surprise when I realized it was the building.
I watched them film the fire trucks arriving sequence and was an extra in the bleachers in the ribbon cutting scene. Incredibly cold and windy on the night they filmed this.
Wow that is too cool! I just watched the film again last night and it's weird because I saw extras in that very scene and wondered where those people were today!! I saw "TI" at a sneak preview in St Louis, I still have some audience cards asking things like 'Who was your favorite character?" "What did you like most ?" etc....;) The preview audience really liked it. Great on the big screen.
My favorite character was the various building models and how they made it look so real & now there's talk of a 130 story skyscraper in SF south of Market St. Life imitating art.
But seriously, my fave in this was Steve McQueen & the real hero was Holden who read the riot act to Dunaway & got her to stop showing up late for filming every day .
Sadly we may lose the Aquatic Park pier shown in the beginning of the film. Built in the 1930's but now crumbling & would cost $70 million to restore.
Even the submarine Seaview has been shown in the A
#%^*+! Ipad.
Aquatic Park lagoon.
Sorry.
I remember that we had a major building fire here in São Paulo on February 1st, 1974. All the firefighters of the country were granted free tickets to see this film! More than 200 were killed that day.
So cool that the look of the scenic elevators hasn't changed - as of 2013, that is! I always enjoyed the scene of the elevator silently ascending the Glass Tower as it made its way to the Promenade Room. Thank you so much for sharing this!
Still the same as of a year ago June when I stopped in
wow this takes me back to when the whole family went to the drive in for family night.
I watched the posidon adventure and this one with my family at the drive I I was 9 I think.
boy I miss family night and drive-inn. thank you for that great memory.
Rebecca Schuster so do i Rebecca .
+kevphillips02 If you watched both those movies back to back. You should almost be done with the second right about now. Those were some long movies back then.
I recall my dad bought tickets for this for the Drive-In before the movie was being shown. They were class A looking tickets with the movie poster as part of the ticket. Not those printed stubs they give out now.
my favourite film of all time . seen it loads of times over the years . i only watched it on my dvd player the other night . you know where too reach me so long Architect .
One of the best disaster movies of all time,, even after all these years. A great list of stars and....this is when O. J. Simpson was still "The Juice".
Yup
They should edit his pathetic sorry ass out of this movie!!! What kind of a monster brutally murders the mother of his own children?!?!!! He’s not even man enough to admit that he did it!!!! He will burn in hell for all eternity for what he did!!!!!!
@@randythompson5154 Yes but you would have to do that to every move he was in.. He was in the Cassandra crossing in 1977 as well.. XD
@MagSeven7 : Nowadays if people heard that name OJ Simpson they would SPIT OUT that juice.
I was 9 the first time I saw this movie,and I had caught it in the middle. It tripped me out to see OJ Simpson acting. I had only known him as a football player - and,at the time,he was one of my favorites
This is SO cool... We like the rendition of one our favourite movies... The split screens and how it looked in the film and in real life. The Producers and artist who put the movie together made the movie look so real and lifelike.
I can’t believe the elevator pods are still exactly as in the movie!.
They're still there. They operate as perfectly as they did in the film, at The Hyatt Regency Embarcadero at the foot of Market Street, In San Francisco, It's still a very cool lobby. These elevators are silent and rise to the restaurant at the top, which used to spin 360 degrees. That mechanism broke down years ago and, unfortunately, they never fixed it!
Yes it’s amazing ! I am a big fan of the movie
@@bandfromtheband9445actually as of June of 2024, they fixed the mechanical motors and the top of the Hyatt Regency restaurant and it now turns again!!!!! 👍
It's cool how a lot of this stuff is still there.
This was wonderful! I don’t understand copyright garbage with movies here. You are’t selling the movie for profit. Partial movie. If anything, you make people want to go out and see or buy the entire movie again, or for the first time. I love your work here. Thank you. I hope you are never stopped again.
It's amazing to see most of the San Francisco residential and downtown locations haven't changed a bit since the 1970s
My dad loved these disasters films back in the 70s and always got everyone to get dressed and headed to the theater to see them. I saw this movie when it was released in the theatres when I was very little. I don't have much memories from those very early days of my childhood but I definitely remember this movie as I sat there with my parents. I've seen the movie many times since during my life, but its experiencing that original awe in that theater that is forever burned in my memory. What a great movie.
"...forever burned in my memory."
No offense, but I consider that one hell of a pun!!
@@ilttpvvm Someone should get scalded for making that pun! Let us all burn together.
I was 13 & saw this by myself in the theatre. There were so many famous actors in this one along with the Brady Bunch kid who was the same age as me. Thanks for sharing. Very interesting to see the buildings today.
GREAT JOB PUTTING THIS CLIP TOGETHER,, THE OLDER 70S MOVIES WERE THE BEST!! THANKS,,
It's great to see the locations still exist from a film that thrilled me as a child. Fantastic work!
Great movie, great actors and wonderful soundtrack by John Williams.
Gran película, grandes actores y una maravillosa banda sonora de John Williams.
It's the best of best movie from 1970's. I like Paul Newman and miss Steve McQueen.
I love this movie. It's great movie from the 1970's
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH 🌎 1959
WAS VERY ENTERTAINING
Beautifully, BEAUTIFULLY done, sir!! 8^D I always wanted to do this when I lived in S.F., but never got the chance!
For those of you who don't know the back story, this film was a collaboration by _two different_ studios - one of the first time that had ever happened - because each had purchased different properties on the same subject and didn't want to compete in the marketplace. Those books were written by different authors, but based on the same idea…that a monstrous skyscraper might one day prove to be a death trap to thousands.
The inspiration for _both_ books? The self-same event: the erection of the World Trade Center in New York City.
How's that for eerie? ;^/
Yes it is.
Thank you.
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I saw this film in the cinema at aged 12 ...awesome...still watching it at 56....awesome....no cgi
Endless battle with RUclips Copyrights bullshit. Re-posting this video that was blocked worldwide recently. Thanks for comments&ratings.
Remember they file those under "penalty of perjury." Have them cuffed and stuffed
Love your work! Superman was probably my favorite, but they are all incredible. Please don’t ever stop doing them
I was inspired by your video and checked out the hotel myself last year. 😅
So, this is what SONY does instead of making great movies. Now I know. Will they come after me for using their name?
One of my favourite films of all time !! So well made, so good actors... remembering that a real fire inferno in brazil happens nearly the same time... its soooo disgusting, that with all these lessons and the final words of the fire chief some catastrophic desasters could happen, like grenfell tower or other catastrophic fires with combustable claddings and isolation material, sooo frustrating..
Save $$ people be damned!
@@apachemimi9762 Lives are expendable and cheap, but protect those profits and pay my bonus!
A masterpiece with an incredible cast. FYI: The fireman who was in the truck next to the black fireman is Paul Newman's son.
The black fireman was Harry's partner in Magnum Force.
Really? Never knew that, thought he looked familiar
I remember seeing this as a kid in the theater. It was terrifying then to watch. Thank you.
I saw this movie in my country Nicaragua in the 70's in Spanish obviously .. I'm 55 now and kinda remember bits of it , it was a Great Movie with great Actors , I loved it .
I would love to see your Spanish-language movie version with English subtitles.
Enjoyed watching this clip. I visited a few places where they filmed while I was on holiday in San Francisco. I was 11 years old when my mom took me to see this picture at the cinema. To this day it is still my favorite picture of all time. I have an original framed movie poster hanging in my lounge room. Awesome movie. Know it word for word !!
I went to this hotel in San francisco 40 years ago in summer.
When I was 10 years old.
So nostalgic.
Living in San Francisco, I go by most these spots every week. Interesting that the Salesforce tower is now the tallest building in SF, and bears a resemblance to this fictional tower as it sticks out in its location. And I live 5 blocks from that fire station used in the film…pass it everyday. Nice job putting this together…best I’ve seen anyone do around that film!🎉😫
@UncleFred100 : Back then in 1974 San Francisco was a great city that many people would have loved to live in. Now 49 yrs later in 2023 San Francisco is a s***hole city that everyone wants to leave. How very sad indeed.
Beautifully done. One of my favorite movies.
Awww this is kinda cute. Good for you to have made such a trip and recorded these scenes. Awwwwww... and what a great movie it is
This video is the work of a real film fan! Big respect! And thank You!
This is my all time favorite movie. The cast is a who’s who of Hollywood bridging the gap from the old movie stars with the new ones. One of my favorite things about this film is how they make references throughout about how to fight fires, what to look for in terms of stuff being burned whether it’s toxic or not. Just a lot of info on what to do and not to do in this type of situation.
Me also! So bigbig big in everyway. The first viewing in a movie theater back in ' 75 was quite something. I've watched it multiple times and it is a real classic.
I saw this in the theater while I was in the Navy. I remember when the navy helicopters showed up there were lots of cheering going on because the helicopters shown were our sister Huey outfit.
Watch this movie many times a year. Newman and McQueen are my favorite actors and having them both in a movie is just a special treat. Glad to find out here that they got on well together.
Not exactly - apparently there was alot of 'bitching' going on, they insisted both get the same pay, they both wanted top-billing (hence the 'diagonal billing' to keep them happy) one of them threw a Mardi when he realised the other initially had more lines of dialogue - it had to be sorted after agreement was made so they both had exactly the same lines of dialogue, basically they both saw themselves better than the other, quite pathetic really as obviously both phenomenal actors, there was no need for it. Anyway it all doesn't take away their performances! - and it's one of my favourite movies of all time
I saw this movie when it was released in theaters back in the day! A great cast, great story well done everything right down to the movie soundtrack! McQueen and Newman together were so perfect! At the end of the film the entire audience rose from there seats including I and my family! A powerful standing ovation! Godfather two was a good film, but Towering Inferno should have taken home the prize for best picture! This film was the first disaster film ever nominated in so many categories! We all know it would finally be another disaster film more than 25 years later that would garner the nominations and win the Best Picture Award....
Lots of disaster movies then; lots of movie disasters NOW;-)!
WOW! Great movie. Thank you for making this.
Very well done. Awesome!! However the fire station used in the film was SFFD Station 38 at 2150 California St., San Francisco. What a great video though. Towering Inferno is one of my all time favorites!! I went to the special screening with my brother in Burbank, California around mid to late 2000 and was able to meet some of the actors. I am a Fireman, so meeting Ernie Orsatti and Felton Perry was great!! We also met the beautiful Carlena Gower who played little Angela.
I'll bet the scene where they are racing to the fire and figuring out what building it is was one of the reasons you became a fireman. This film is so epic. Not like the garbage they make today.
Thank you for putting this up. The Towering Inferno terrified me for years about going into tall buildings. But with you RUclipss like yours I realize it was just all Hollywood magic. Thank you again.
So memorable film I watched at the theater when I was a kid of 11.
This is Wonderful what you Did ! 😍
Thank You , for the Memories.
Many Blessings my friend.
Herve, I am very impressed by your attention to detail. It's fascinating and kind of eerie to see these filming locations as they appeared in the movie decades ago and comparing them to today in more mundane times.
What a movie this is, probably the most mega star's in one film, the rivalry between McQueen and Newman was there to see, McQueen was offered the Newman part but he declined it saying it's not exciting enough, he wanted the fire chief role, so poor Ernest Borgmain lost his part. Probably the best disaster film ever. Such a shame that most of these actors have passed on.
Great movie, and an extremely well-researched and filmed video. Thanks for doing this!
Bravo Hervé. Excellent travail sur un film culte. Tu viens de m'offrir 10 minutes de bonheur ! MERCI
Está película me la llevo a ver mi padre cuando tenía 11 años me encantó la vi varias veces hasta en la escuela primaria en manualidades hice una maqueta del la torre es una película que ya quedó en la historia grande de Hollywood más las grandes estrellas que actúan aunque Steven Queen se roba toda la película como el jefe de bomberos hace unos años los coreanos del sur hicieron una copia llamada la torre ahora a mis 58 años la tengo en DVD además de la banda sonora exelente
Great job!! It would be so nice to see this movie re-released in full def. Old timers can reminisce and 'young-uns' can appreciate it with some actors of yesteryear. :))!
Can't believe that RUclips would still hold that copyright junkk over you... it's been longer than I been on this earth since this movie came out and they are still worried abour copyrights.!? One look at your work and they would certainly have to reconsider their motives. You add to the wonder of every movie you cover... in a nutshell, you are a credit/bonus and tribute to their work.
Very well done. Great memories seeing this movie as thirteen year old.
This film looks more realistic than any other CGI disaster movie nowadays - more than 40 years later !!!
Nice work, Herve! The lighting of the hotel interior looks better in your video than it does in the movie! Happy New Year!
Thank you for this magnificent tribute to my favourite movie ! I will be following you on facebook ! Keep up the great work !
Thanks for the upload Herve.
Fun! Thanks for all the hard work!
This film featured so many Hollywood stars. The original soundtrack was the very first one I purchased back in 1974. I loved the music. It's still my favorite John Williams score.
Of all the live performances I have seen from John Williams, he never does music from this movie.
Does that film bring back memories indeed. It was from that movie and the TV show Emergency and Adal 12, I joined the NYPD, became a volunteer firefighter and EMT. I am retired after 32 years of service. I am sure I was not the only kid that got hooked on the Emergency Services. Great job !!!
Great movie, packed a punch like the Poseidon Adventure.
I don't remember Paul Newman's character imploring the survivors to get out of the building before it collapsed into its own footprint..
Brilliant little video this! Really well put together! 👏👏👏
A classic movie, I remember seeing this at the theater. Loved it.
One of my most remembered movies i watched during my high school days❤
Great video. Thanks mate 👍🏼
What a line up of stars. I remember when it came out, I was 8 and my older brothers were right into it. We had the book too!
You always do such a tremendous job. I appreciate your hard work & as always thanks for sharing!
Fascinating, very well done, Thank You.
proper actors proper stars.best film ever
Mr Attia congratulations for his important job. ..Thanks! From Udine Italy.
Nicely done. The Towering Inferno is one of my all time favorite (guilty pleasure) movies!
Outstanding! I love the then-now comparison, how it shows the continuum in which we live: things changing yet the same--sometimes! May sound odd but you can get the same effect in the 1980's historical novel "...And Ladies of the Club" by Helen Hooven Santmeyer. The list of club members is shown through the years, current member names gradually become "In Memoriam" names as new names through the decades replace them. Same club, same ladies and in different phases of their lives until death; new, younger members join the club during these changes and events and eventually become the older members themselves.
Surperb video thanks for showing this very interesting
it was so exciting watching a movie back then.My whole life stretched before me.
This one of the best and most gripping disaster film in my lifetime. It caused quite a bit discussion on building codes in that era. The cast was unusually appreciative tobe working on such a major production and PAUL NEWMAN STEVE McQUEEN WILLIAM HOLDEN added major star power. Such great action scenes
1 of the greatest movies ever made . it happens too be my favourite film of all time . i wish i could see it again in the cinema 1 more time . i could talk for ages about the film
Very well done. There is actually very little in the way of stills from the movie. Excellent work.
"Casualties of life"; something like that happened in an hotel of Puerto Rico the last night of 1986. It happened in n exclusive tourist area of the island. Many deaths and sorrows.RIP. It was awful. Is one of the more tragical page of our history.
I saw this movie with My Mum and Dad, I was 14, good memories, good movie, pity not to find it here
95 cents for a cab ride??? LOL. That wouldn't even get the meter started today.
roquefortfiles .95 cents is 5.25 in today's dollars, must have been a short ride, LoL!!
Did he pay the full fare? When I watched the movie I got the impression that he underpaid the cab driver on the excuse that he only had a 50-dollar bill. Later in the movie it becomes clear that this guy is a broke nobody posing as a rich man.
That 50-dollar bill. If I had been that taxi driver, I would have said, "Show me."
All Action Sequences were Directed by Irwin Allen, as he did on The Poseidon Adventure. John Guillerman only directed non action scenes.
Another great job Herve.. thanks.
9:29 Steve McQueen said it perfectly and then 9/11 happened in 2001.
And on floor 81 too. Like the movie.
Hey flashy, good catch on mr.mcqueen's, statement.
this movie is a great part of my childhood. going up in the 80s was a great time
I always wanted live in that beautiful house! So amazing. Best disaster movie of all time!
One of my fav, amazing cast!!