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Details: Fox’s The Towering Inferno on Blu-ray

You know, I’ve never really cared for disaster fliks. They’re just not my thing. I remember catching some of these films when I was younger and they scared the crap out of me, more-so than the horror films that were supposed to make me shiver in terror. I could sit through hours of Dracula and Frankenstein but expose me to a few moments of Airport or Earthquake and I’d be cowering under the covers and suffering nightmares for weeks to come.

That being said, it’s going to be like pulling teeth to get me to calmly sit down with the new Blu-ray version of The Towering Inferno, despite the fact that it stars Paul Newman and Steve McQueen and despite the fact that Fox appears to have gone all out putting it together. Seriously, check out this freakishly long list of extras:

THE TOWERING INFERNO
(July 14, MSRP $34.98)
BD-50 Dual Layer Disc
Video: 2.40:1 1080p AVC
Audio: 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio

Special Features Include:

• Commentary by F.X. Feeney, film historian
• Scene-specific commentary by Mike Vezina, special effects director on ‘X3′
• Scene-specific commentary by Branko Racki, stunt coordinator on ‘The Day After Tomorrow’
• 32 extended and deleted scenes
• Alternate opening sequence
• Irwin Allen 1977 interview
• Six storyboard comparisons
• 10 featurettes:

    ◦ Inside the Tower: We Remember
    ◦ Innovating Tower: The SPFX of an Inferno
    ◦ The Art of Towering
    ◦ Irwin Allen: The Great Producer
    ◦ Directing the Inferno
    ◦ Putting out Fire
    ◦ Running on Fire
    ◦ Still the World’s Tallest Building
    ◦ The Write Stirling Silliphant
    ◦ AMC Backstory: The Towering Inferno

• Vintage promotional materials:

    ◦ NATO presentation reel
    ◦ Two original 1974 featurettes

• Trailer farm:

    ◦ ‘The Towering Inferno’ teaser
    ◦ ‘The Towering Inferno’ trailer
    ◦ ‘The Poseidon Adventure’ trailer

• Interactive galleries:

    ◦ American Cinematographer article
    ◦ ‘The Towering Inferno’ and how it was filmed
    ◦ Photographing the dramatic sequences for ‘The Towering Inferno’
    ◦ “Action Unit” lives up to its name while shooting ‘The Towering Inferno’

• Stills galleries:

    ◦ Shot compositions
    ◦ Publicity
    ◦ Behind the scenes
    ◦ Conceptual sketches
    ◦ Costumes

Amazon.com Link: THE TOWERING INFERNO - $22.99

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