List of the best Irwin Allen movies: The Towering Inferno(1974), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea(1961), Beyond the Poseidon Adventure(1979), City Beneath the Sea(1971) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
1974
165 Minutes
Director
Steve McQueen Paul Newman William Holden Faye Dunaway Fred Astaire Susan Blakely Richard Chamberlain Jennifer Jones O.J. Simpson Robert Vaughn
contractor architect fireman victim thrilling suspenseful skyscraper san francisco fire disaster trapped fear explosion greed rescue 1970s
At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Sci-Fi
USA
1961
105 Minutes
Director
Walter Pidgeon Joan Fontaine Barbara Eden Peter Lorre Robert Sterling Michael Ansara Frankie Avalon Regis Toomey John Litel Howard McNear Henry Daniell
admiral psychiatrist lieutenant captain scientist congressman thrilling tense creative submarine deep sea arctic ocean pacific ocean mariana islands fire nuclear weapons race against time sabotage showdown global disaster
When the Earth is threatened by a burning Van Allen Radiation Belt, U.S. Navy Admiral Harriman Nelson plans to shoot a nuclear missile at the Belt, using his experimental atomic submarine, the Seaview.
Adventure
USA
1979
114 Minutes
Director
Michael Caine Sally Field Telly Savalas Peter Boyle Jack Warden Shirley Knight Shirley Jones Karl Malden Slim Pickens Veronica Hamel Angela Cartwright
femme fatale henchman ship captain suspenseful shipwreck escape money discovery 1970s
An extension of the previous film, wherein a cache of adventurers return to the overturned ship to seek several fortunes.
Sci-Fi
1971
100 Minutes
Director
Stuart Whitman Robert Wagner Rosemary Forsyth Robert Colbert Susana Miranda Burr DeBenning Richard Basehart Joseph Cotten James Darren Paul Stewart
A 21st-century admiral (Stuart Whitman) helms the colony of Pacifica, the first underwater city on Earth.