1970s in film was far less successful. "The Towering Inferno" teamed Steve McQueen and Paul Newman against a fire in a San Francisco skyscraper. The film cost a whopping $14 million to produce (expensive for its time), and won Academy Awards for Cinematography, Film Editing, and Best Original Song. The same year, the epic "Earthquake" featured questionable effects (camera shake and models) to achieve a destructive 9.9 earthquake in Los Angeles. Despite this, the film was one of the most successful of its time, earning $80 million at box office. By the late 1970s, the novelty had worn off and the disasters had
Dante's Inferno (1924 film) of the world they played in. The film also features popular comic actor Bud Jamison in blackface as a butler; he is easily recognizable under the makeup, and his initial appearance has caused some laughter by knowledgeable film buffs at its occasional screenings. Some hell scene footage from the film was reused in the 1935 film "Dante's Inferno". For his 1980 sci-fi thriller "Altered States" director Ken Russell intercut borrowed footage from this film with his own digital effects to create a hallucination sequence. Dante's Inferno (1924 film) Dante's Inferno (1924) is a silent film released by Fox Film Corporation,