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Tragic Event | San Francisco, California
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Best Cinematography | 1975
Best Film Editing | 1975 | Carl
Best Music Original Song | 1975
Best Supporting Actor Motion Picture | 1975 | Fred
Most Promising Newcomer Female | 1975 | Susan
Best Supporting Actor | 1976 | Fred
Best Foreign Film Miglior Film Straniero | 1975 | Irwin
Outstanding Special Effects | 1974
1978
Motion Picture | 2023
Best Sound Editing Dialogue | 1975
For | 1976 | John
Best Art DirectionSet Decoration | 1975 | Ward
Best Music Original Dramatic Score | 1975 | John
Best Sound | 1975
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 1975 | Fred
Best Picture | 1975 | Irwin
Best Original Song Motion Picture | 1975
Best Screenplay Motion Picture | 1975 | Stirling
Best Supporting Actress Motion Picture | 1975
Best Edited Feature Film | 1975
Favorite Movie | 1975
Budget 14,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 116,000,000 USD
After seeing this film, novelist Roderick Thorp had a dream that same night about a man being chased through a skyscraper by gun-wielding assailants. This was the inspiration for his 1979 book Nothing Lasts Forever which eventually was made into the film Die Hard (1988).
Both novels were inspired by the construction of the World Trade Center in the early-1970s, and what could happen in a fire in a skyscraper. In Richard Martin Stern's novel "The Tower", the fictional 125-story building was set next to the north tower of the World Trade Center. The climax of the novel was centered around a rescue mounted from the north tower.
Against Irwin Allen's strenuous objections, Steve McQueen insisted on doing the stunt where he leaps off a helicopter onto the top of the burning building.
During filming an actual fire broke out on one of the sets and Steve McQueen found himself briefly helping real firemen put it out. One of the firemen, not recognizing McQueen, said to the actor, "My wife is not going to believe this", to which McQueen replied, "Neither is mine."
One thousand real firefighters were hired throughout the entire production.
"Doug Roberts: I don't know. Maybe they just oughta leave it the way it is. Kind of a shrine to all the bullshit in the world."
"[last Lines] Chief O'Hallorhan: You know, we were lucky tonight. Body count's less than 200. You know, one of these days, you're gonna kill 10,000 in one of these firetraps, and I'm gonna keep eating smoke and bringing out bodies until somebody asks us... how to build them. Doug Roberts: [looks up at the smoky building] Okay. I'm asking. Chief O'Hallorhan: You know where to reach me. So long, architect."
