Your Favorite Disaster Movie, circa 1975.

[Mike 03]

There was a sensational glut of disaster films between approximately 1974 and 1977. If you were a movie-goer during that period, do you have a favorite disaster pic?

I'm including some films that were were not technically "disaster" films, but which, for some reason, were grouped with the more obvious ones.

[Enrique]

1. what's up with all the disaster movies around then?

does it have something to do with Gerald Ford?

[Auggie]

2. I saw Earthquake in Sensurround

What a hoot

From Wiki:

Universal Studios and (Producer) Jennings Lang wanted Earthquake to be an "Event Film" - something that would draw audiences in to the theatre multiple times. After several ideas were tossed about (which included bouncing styrofoam faux "debris" over audience members' heads), Universal's sound department came up with a process called "Sensurround" - a series of large speakers and a 1,500 watt amplifier, that would pump in sub-audible "infra bass" sound waves at 120 decibels (equivalent to a jet airplane at takeoff), giving the viewer the sensation of an earthquake. The process was tested in several theatres around the United States prior to the film's release, yielding various results. A famous example is Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California, where the "Sensurround" cracked the plaster in the ceiling. Ironically, the same theatre premiered Earthquake three months later – with a newly-installed net over the audience to catch any falling debris – to tremendous success.

LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_(film)

[Twillig]

3. Marjoe Gortner as a crazy

National guard reservist.

That was something else! Movies my parents took me to, even at age 11, didn't usually have lunatics in them.

Awesome.

[bicentennial_baby]

4. Cassandra Crossing, no doubt

1) OJ Simpson dressed as a priest...but with a gun!

2) The Plague

3) Caucasian terrorist in a fishermen's sweater

4) Martin Sheen as a drug addict

5) The bridge scene

There's more, but...yeah. :D

[azmouse]

5. I can't watch Airport '75

without thinking of Airplane and laughing.

[lost-in-nj]

6. airport

I was/am in love with George Kennedy

ever since his Bumper days





hi hon

:hug:

doing better tonight..... how about you

lost

[Aqaba]

7. Star Wars obviously

...I cried when Luke blew up the Death Star.

[libnnc]

8. man, that's tough

gotta go with Newman, McQueen, Astaire and Dunaway in Towering Inferno though

[Arugula Latte]

9. Shelly Winters and the upside-down big boat!

:bounce:

[NJmaverick]

10. Steve McQueen made Towering Infrerno the best of the lot

[skygazer]

11. I was in high school at the time and wrote a series of disaster stories set at my school

"Three Days in an Outhouse"

"Fire On Fairground Road"

I can't remember the other titles - wish I still had them. :rofl:

[dembotoz]

12. airport had the most sequels

funny i never really thought of it as a disater movie,more of a thriller.