In what movie did Paul Newman and Steve McQueen star together?

The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American action drama disaster film produced by Irwin Allen featuring an all-star cast led by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. The picture was directed by John Guillermin.

A co-production between 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. (this was the first film to be a joint venture by two major Hollywood studios), it was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from a pair of novels, The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson.

The film was a critical success, earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and was the highest-grossing film released in 1974. The film was nominated for eight Oscars in all, winning three.

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Kevin Dale Streets

Misleading photo, showing Barbra Streisand and Sidney Poitier, when neither of them were in the movie, at least according to Wikipedia...

✨KRISTA✨

I remember seeing this at the movie theater when I was in middle school.🔥

earlepg

I only saw Cassidy and Sundance, so I was reduced to a guess. Using the double chance, I started with Le Mans and ended with The Towering Inferno. .

Patrick T

It makes me feel old when I know the answers to these because I remember them acrually happening. But the disaster movies of the 70s were a lot of fun to see at the time.

Lawanta

That was a BIGGIE in the era of epic disaster movies!

Edie Koller

I should have known that darn it I have that movie on DVD

Elsy O. Stromberg

Theresa Shelton, I did!

teacherchicky

My friend was a stuntman on that movie and he even got a speaking part with two small lines but he said he was just thrilled to be working with THAT caliber of actors!