the name samuel z arkoff appear first on the credit . this could be interesting or it could be terrible . keep watching . the cast include sean connery and natalie wood and brian keith and karl malden and martin landau and trevor howard and henry fonda . now there be a decent bunch of actor and all usually good value . keep watching . direct by ronald neame and a distinguished british director by any standard . and then follow a disaster of a disaster film . there be a strange dichotomy between the high quality of the cast and the low quality of the other element in the film . the painfully meagre special effect and the shrill music and the leaden plot . it seem a strange brew and even a reviewer like myself who will always try to pick out some good point in a film be at a loss . the thing that distract me the most be that the meteor itself and a wide lump of pitted and gruyered rock seem to have a sound effect and like an engine . perhaps it be my imagination . this film be not good enough or bad enough to be a cult film . it be just tepid and flat and make the tower inferno look like the citizen kane of disaster movie .