The Towering Inferno (1974)

Steve McQueen and Paul Newman were friendly rivals both behind and in front of the camera in this Irwin Allen disaster extravaganza. The movie is just plain fun, in fact I was actually surprised that it maintained my interest so well over its roughly 2 hr 40 minute run. It's not that the film is all special effects and melodrama without any real subtext, it is after all a movie about foolish hubris, essentially a retelling of the Tower of Babel, though the cut on Fay Dunaway's dress might be more appropriate for Babylon.