Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid the Sundance Kid's character before. Other actors considered for the role of Sundance were Steve McQueen and Warren Beatty, who both turned it down, with Beatty claiming that the film was too similar to "Bonnie and Clyde". According to Goldman, McQueen and Newman both read the scripts at the same time and agreed to do the film. McQueen eventually backed out of the film due to disagreements with Newman. The two actors would eventually team up in the 1974 disaster film "The Towering Inferno". The world premiere of the movie was in September 1969, at the Roger Sherman Theater, in
Earthquake (1974 film) "The Towering Inferno" ranking 8th, "Airport" 14th, "The Poseidon Adventure" 16th and "Earthquake" 20th. These successes ensured the flood of similar films throughout the decade. Earthquake eventually grossed nearly $80,000,000 ($349,858,800 adjusted for inflation in 2015 dollars). At its release, critics generally acknowledged the special effects in "Earthquake" while discounting other aspects. Without either panning or praising the film, Nora Sayre of the "New York Times" wrote that it was an improvement on "Airport '75" and observed, "The impulse to shout advice to the screen—get out! go away! don't enter that building—is quite powerful, so this does rank as a