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Terror on the 40th Floor

Terror on the 40th Floor

1974TV Movie⏱️ 1h 37mUnrated
Drama
4.7
IMDB Rating
244 votes

A number of business people, keeping the Christmas Eve office party going longer than was originally intended, are beset by a fire that starts in the basement of their office building and creeps up at them from floor to floor.

Director
Jerry Jameson
Writers
Edward Montagne, Jack Turley
Stars
John Forsythe, Joseph Campanella, Lynn Carlin
Release Date
September 17, 1974
Language
English
Country
United States
💬 10
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

John Forsythe
John Forsythe
as Daniel 'Dan' Overland
Joseph Campanella
Joseph Campanella
as Howard Foster
Lynn Carlin
Lynn Carlin
as Lee Parker
Anjanette Comer
Anjanette Comer
as Darlene Porter
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Laurie Heineman
as Ginger Macklin
Don Meredith
Don Meredith
as Kelly Freeman
Kelly Jean Peters
Kelly Jean Peters
as Betty Carson
Pippa Scott
Pippa Scott
as Thelma Overland
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Louis Guss
as Charley
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Hank Brandt
as Jim Pierson

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Mono
Color
Color
Filming Location
601 W 5th Street, Los Angeles, California, USA
Production
Montagne Productions, Metromedia Producers Corporation (MPC)

🏷️ Keywords

elevator shaftdisaster filmfalling to deathcrashing through a windowdrunken man

🎯 Categories

Drama

⭐ Featured Review

A Burnt Out Genre
by boblipton2009-01-04
3/10

"The Disaster Movies of the late 1960s and 1970s seem to owe their success to the spectacle involved. If you have a really big building on fire or a gigantic ship sinking at sea or an earthquake ripping down a city, it's very impressive. But once you get past the big set piece, you still have to photograph people and stories in interesting ways or you don't really have anything. John Ford was once asked why he took his film crews out to Monument Valley for westerns. Instead of speaking of the beauty of the location, the fact that other other sites for westerns were too familiar, he ..."

📖 Synopsis

A number of business people, keeping the Christmas Eve office party going longer than was originally intended, are beset by a fire that starts in the basement of their office building and creeps up at them from floor to floor.