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
The Deer (1974 film) which overthrow the regime of Shah took place in 1978 - 1979. Dilip Hiro, author of "Iran Under the Ayatollahs", said that the film, "passed the censors with considerable difficulty." The film was shown at the Cinema Rex; during one showing the cinema was intentionally set on fire as a terrorist attack during the Irani Revolution. The Deer (1974 film) The Deer (; "Gavaznha" or "Gavaznhā") is a 1974 drama Iranian film directed by Masoud Kimiai and one of the most acclaimed Persian movies before the Iranian revolution starring Behrouz Vossoughi, the most famous Iranian male actor before the revolution