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Director: Irwin Allen

Irwin Allen produced The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno and effectively created the 1970s disaster cycle as a commercial format. He directed the action sequences on both and won an Academy Award for a documentary.

The Towering Inferno (1974) film poster

The Towering Inferno (1974)

The Towering Inferno is the best disaster film of the 1970s and the model against which every subsequent disaster film has been measured. John Guillermin directed the dramatic scenes and Irwin Allen directed the action sequences.