The Towering Inferno is a 1974 disaster film. A power surge also sparks a fire in a storage room on the 81st floor, which because of problems with the building's security system, goes undetected for many hours and stats the whole building on fire. Directed by: John Guillermin Irwin Allen (action sequences) Produced by: Irwin Allen Written by: Novel: Richard Martin Stern Thomas N. Scortia Frank M. Robinson Screenplay: Stirling Silliphant Music by: John Williams Cinematography: Fred J. Koenekamp ...