The Towering Inferno [SEP] cast member
The Towering Inferno
The Towering Inferno is a 1974 American drama disaster film produced by Irwin Allen featuring an ensemble cast led by Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. Directed by John Guillermin, the film is a co-production between 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros., the first 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.
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audience and many unconvincing samplings of profanity and corny drug jokes. The guest host is Earl Camembert, who during the monologue does a bad impression of Steve Martin, saying, "Well, I beg your pardon!".
- "Towering Inferno", a satire of the 1974 Irwin Allen film, with each cast member playing multiple roles, trying to escape "the world's thinnest, tallest building" after it catches on fire. Martin is at this point the only female cast member, so they are forced