On Dec. 16, 1974, 20th-Fox and Warner Bros. unveiled in theaters what would become a landmark disaster movie. By John H. Dorr On Dec. 16, 1974, 20th-Fox and Warner Bros. unveiled in theaters what ...

But five decades later, this film isn’t readily available to stream or rent online, which means audiences have either forgotten about it or they never knew it existed in the first place. Rather than ...

"Fire, flood or any other act of God." So, anyway, it says on the insurance policy. But the crises in 1970s disaster movies were almost always caused by Man. Or if not directly caused, then aided and ...

Throughout the 1970s, audiences couldn't get enough of disaster movies. The decade began with the all-star blockbuster bomb-on-a-plane thrill ride Airport, based on Arthur Hailey's best-seller. Burt ...

Since many people in and around the motion-picture industry have an unfortunate tendency to mistake gloom for profundity, these depressing wallows often attract popular and admired performers who are ...

Movie technology is the star of this awesome Irwin Allen production, a formula disaster picture made into an event by the sheer size of its inflating production values. More ordeal than entertainment, ...

In the 1970s, disaster movies were the superhero cinema of their day. In other words, these were the films that brought movie ...