There's unusually no studio ident as two made it - Warners and Fox. (It was based on two similar books.) Unfortunately, the script was one of the early casualties of the fire.
We quite enjoyed seeing some of the people - Bill Holden, Fred Astaire, Steve McQueen. Paul Newman, Jennifer Jones, Roberts Vaughan and Wagner, Faye Dunaway, Susan Blakely..
.. but when you start expecting Richard Chamberlain's burned corpse to fall on the fire fighters, and the little girl says 'Will there be a bang?' and you realise the flaming film's going on for another hour...
For the record, Fred Koenkamp and Joseph Biroc (action scenes) won the Oscar. After 9/11 and Grenfell it's not an easy watch, somehow. I once thought it was the best film ever made.
We seem to be watching a lot of crappy films, lately...
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