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A Few Minutes with Nat Segaloff: Remembering “The Towering Inferno” on its 50th Anniversary
“It is very simply the greatest disaster movie ever made.” — Nat Segaloff, author of More Fire! The Building of The Towering Inferno: A 50th Anniversary Explosion
The Digital Bits and History, Legacy & Showmanship are pleased to present this retrospective commemorating the golden anniversary of the release of The Towering Inferno, Irwin Allen’s popular production about a fire in a San Francisco skyscraper.
Based upon the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson, the 20th Century-Fox/Warner Bros. co-production was directed by John Guillermin (The Blue Max, King Kong [1976]) and featured an all-star cast headed by Steve McQueen (Bullitt), Paul Newman (Cool Hand Luke), William Holden (Sunset Boulevard), and Faye Dunaway (Network). [Read on here...]
- film retrospective
- The Digital Bits
- Michael Coate
- History Legacy & Showmanship
- Nat Segaloff
- The Towering Inferno
- 50th Anniversary
- 20th Century Fox
- Warner Bros
- Irwin Allen
- skyscraper
- fire
- San Francisco
- Richard Martin Stern
- John Guillermin
- Steve McQueen
- William Holden
- Paul Newman
- Faye Dunaway
- Frank M Robinson
- Thomas N Scortia
- The Tower
- The Glass Inferno
- John Williams
Arrow’s March includes American Werewolf & RoboCop in 4K, plus Imprint’s March slate has Osterman Weekend, and The Digital Bits 3.0 in 2022!
A funny thing happened on the way to yesterday’s My Two Cents post! For some reason, I lost track of a day this week, so I thought yesterday was Friday. Then I wake up and here’s Friday again, much to my surprise. LOL. So anyway, while a bit of yesterday’s post still applies this afternoon, we’ve got some great breaking release news to share with you all today...
First up, the fine Imprint Films (down in Australia) has just announced their March 2022 Blu-ray slate, which is due to street on 3/30/22. It will include Sam Peckinpah’s The Osterman Weekend (1983 – mastered from new 2K scans of the director’s cut negative and the theatrical cut, so it will include both versions), Buzz Kulik’s The Hunter (1980 – starring Steve McQueen), Samuel Fuller’s China Gate (1957), Byron Haskin’s Conquest of Space (1955 – produced by George Pal), John Sturges’ Marooned (1969), Robert Wise’s Audrey Rose (1977), and Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun (1971). Not bad at all!
As usual, all of these Blu-rays should be region free. You’ll find them available here on the Imprint website.
But here’s the whopper today... Arrow Video has just announced its March 2022 slate as well, which includes no less than three new 4K UHD catalog titles! [Read on here...]
- Shout! Factory
- Tim Salmons
- Denis Villeneuve
- James Cameron
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Arrow Video March 2022 slate
- Imprint Films March 2022 slate
- RoboCop 4K
- An American Werewolf in London 4K
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 4K
- Come Drink with Me BD
- To Sleep So As to Dream BD
- Mark of the Beast: The Legacy of the Universal Werewolf
- Daniel Griffith
- Sam Peckinpah
- The Osterman Weekend BD
- China Gate BD
- The Hunter BD
- Conquest of Space BD
- George Pal
- Marooned BD
- Robert Wise
- Audrey Rose BD
- Johnny Got His Gun BD
- Dalton Trumbo
- Samuel Fuller
- Steve McQueen
- John Sturges
- The Digital Bits site upgrade
- Back the Bits via PayPal
- The Digital Bits 25th Anniversary in 2022
- Paul Verhoeven
- Kenneth Branagh
- John Landis