Irwin Allen, the Busby Berkeley of natural disasters and other people’s troubles, teams up with John Guillermin, a competent if undistinguished action director, to burn down a skyscraper in Los Angeles (1974) while trying to hold together a plot involving Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Richard Chamberlain, Jennifer Jones, O.J. Simpson, and Robert Wagner.
