A Navy rescue team attach a breeches buoy between the Promenade Room and the roof of the adjacent 102-story Peerless Building, and rescue a number of guests, including Patty Simmons, Duncan's daughter. They await firemen sent to blow up hardened cement blocking their access.ДЄs firemen begin to bring the fire under control on floor 65, the electrical system fails, deactivating the passenger elevators O'Halloran must rappel down the elevator shaft to safety.ДЄn attempt at a helicopter rescue fails when two women run up to the aircraft, causing the pilot to try to evade them, crashing and setting the roof ablaze. The explosion destroys the emergency stairs which they must traverse to reach an exit door leading to a service elevator which can take them to the 134th floor, below the Promenade Room. Security Chief Jernigan rescues the mother, but a ruptured gas line explodes and prevents Doug and the rest of the group from following. Lisolette Mueller, a guest being wooed by con man Harlee Claiborne, rushes to the 87th floor to check on a deaf mother and her two children. Bigelow and his mistress Lorrie are killed when a separate fire traps them in the Duncan Enterprises offices on the 65th floor. Fire overtakes the express elevators, killing a group whose elevator stops on the engulfed 81st floor. Simmons admits to Duncan that he cut corners to bring the project back under budget and suggests other subcontractors did likewise. SFFD Chief Michael O'Halloran arrives and forces Duncan to evacuate the guests from the Promenade Room on the 135th floor. Roberts reports the fire to Duncan, who is courting Senator Gary Parker for an urban renewal contract and refuses to order an evacuation. Roberts and engineer Will Giddings go to the 81st floor, where Giddings is fatally burned pushing a guard away from the fire. Smoke is seen on the 81st floor, and the San Francisco Fire Department is summoned. Roberts confronts Simmons, who feigns innocence.Дuring the dedication ceremony, chief of public relations Dan Bigelow turns on all the tower's lights, but Roberts orders them shut off to reduce the load on the electrical system. Upon learning this, Roberts sees the wiring is inadequate and suspects that Roger Simmons, the electrical subcontractor and Duncan's son-in-law, cut corners. During testing, an electrical short starts an undetected fire on the 81st floor just after another such short occurs in the main utility room. The tower, 1,688 feet (515В m) tall and 138 stories, is the world's tallest building. ДЄrchitect Doug Roberts returns to San Francisco for the dedication of the Glass Tower, which he designed for developer James Duncan. Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, Susan Flannery, Gregory Sierra, Dabney Coleman and in her final role, Jennifer Jones. In addition to McQueen and Newman, the cast includes William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain, O. The picture was nominated for eight Oscars in all, winning three. The film earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture and was the highest-grossing film of 1974. It was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from the novels The Tower (1973) by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno (1974) by Thomas N. Directed by John Guillermin, the film is a co-production between 20th Century-Fox and Warner Bros., and thus the first film to be a joint venture by two major Hollywood studios. The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American disaster film produced by Irwin Allen featuring an ensemble cast led by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen.

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