Here's a really enjoyable 10 minute featurette from 1974 showing producer Irwin Allen in preparations for shooting his blockbuster The Towering Inferno. It makes you realize how the pre-CGI era depended upon master craftsmen to bring spectacle and thrills to the movies. It also reminds us how we'll never see the likes of these all-star films again for two reasons: 1. the budgets would be unaffordable. 2. there aren't enough genuine stars to merit being called an all-star production! Can you remember the thrill of seeing Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner and Jennifer Jones in one movie? To view click here