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500. While every precaution was taken to prevent injuries, several did occur during filming. One stunt person suffered a concussion during the flood sequence (the accident was used in the film), and several stunt artists were injured during the elevator crash scene, since the set was designed to collapse upon them. Multiple stunt artists were injured during a scene involving an escalator as well.
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during a biker riot), and commandeers the truck to use as an ambulance, while Miles takes his motorcycle to search for Rosa. Slade stays in the area with additional injured, while Sal drives the rest to a makeshift field hospital being set up at the Wilson Plaza, a combination office building and underground mall and parking structure that survived the earthquake.
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finding the earthquake's magnitude to be 9.9 on the Richter scale. The film's final scene was significantly re-edited, and originally showed Denise walking up to Lew Slade as he emerges from the manhole, and asks if Stewart had survived; upon hearing of his death, she walks over to Corry who has regained consciousness.
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At the California Seismological Institute (CSI), junior seismologist Walter Russell calculates that Los Angeles will suffer a major earthquake within the next two days. Head seismologist Dr. Stockle and associate Dr. Johnson determine the hypothesis probable and contact the mayor, who, fearful of the
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Many scenes from the film, especially those featuring the destruction of Los Angeles, have appeared in other productions, often those of Universal Studios itself (effectively allowing Universal to recoup some of the expenses associated with filming the costly special effects). Some examples include:
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and become entangled with electric cables from a fallen pole. Denise finds him unconscious and climbs down to save him. Unable to climb back out, she hails a passing truck, driven by Miles and Sal. After saving them, they meet up with Slade, who knows Miles and Sal (after arresting both a year prior
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Graff's boss and father-in-law, Sam Royce, later offers Graff the company presidency. Graff calls Denise to say he cannot see her that evening, and she says she wants to go to Oregon with him. Conflicted between the relationship and the promotion, Graff nevertheless decides to accept Sam's offer. At
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loaded with passengers plummeting 25 floors to the ground during the earthquake is one of the film's more notorious sequences, mainly for how its conclusion was depicted. As originally scripted, the occupants were pressed to the ceiling of the elevator as it fell down the shaft, and then dropped to
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The 2006 Universal Studios Home Entertainment DVD release features the original "Sensurround" 3.1 audio track, duplicating the original theatrical "Sensurround" track (but oddly in mono directed to the front 3 speakers rather than the original stereo mix), but no actual 'rumble' generator was used,
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used a new technique developed especially for the film: a "shaker mount" camera system that mimicked the effects of an earthquake by moving the entire camera body several inches side to side, versus simple shaking the camera on a stationary tripod, for a more realistic motion. This camera mount was
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Other scenes were shot to wrap up many characters' stories after the earthquake, but were deleted from the final print: Walt Russell and Dr. Stockle – whose fates are undetermined after the quake in the theatrical release – were shown alive in the seismology laboratory post-quake. They were shown
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chunks of reinforced concrete in order to flatten cars, with stunt performers only a few feet away. In other scenarios, some stunt artists were required to fall 60 feet (18 m) onto large air bags from the rafters of Universal's largest stage (Stage 12) – for which they were paid the sum of $
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were rigged to spray the stunt people inside the elevator set with blood when the set came crashing to the ground. After several tries over two separate filming days weeks apart (the break in filming was an attempt to perfect the mechanical effects involved), and with unsatisfactory results, the
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In a vacant lot, motorcycle daredevil, Miles Quade, and his manager and mechanic, Sal Amici, have set up a dangerous stunt track, hoping to impress a Las Vegas promoter, so he will book their act at a hotel. Unconvinced that the stunt will work, Sal's sister, Rosa Amici, fears that Miles will be
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the floor when the elevator crashes to the bottom. To film this, an elevator set was built suspended several feet over the stage floor, allowing for the dropping of the set (with the stunt people inside). The scene was filmed several times, with several stunt people involved. Copious amounts of
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Graff's car is one of the few surviving vehicles from the quake, and is commandeered by Slade as he drives past. Unable to work the manual transmission, Slade makes Graff drive, while they take the last of the injured back to Wilson Plaza. En route, they come across Jody and his unit, who has
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An aftershock destroys Wilson Plaza before Graff, Slade and Rosa arrive there. After Barbara says she last saw Denise, Royce, and Remy in the 3rd level basement garage, Graff tells an Army Corps of Engineers Colonel that there may be survivors trapped in an underground garage, which would be
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back into high gear, hiring writer George Fox to continue work with Puzo's first draft. Fox was principally a magazine writer and never had written a screenplay, so director Mark Robson worked with him to narrow the scope of the script to fit into the budgetary constraints. After 11 drafts,
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by a National Guard unit led by Jody. He orders her to stay inside a secluded store for what he says is her safety. More troops arrive with Jody's housemates, who are also being detained for looting. To the shock of his troops, Jody taunts then murders them for the ridicule he has endured.
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Another small tremor cancels Denise's film shoot for the day, so she goes to meet her friend, Barbara, a secretary at Graff's engineering firm. Graff bumps into Denise in the building's lobby. The pair return to her house and have sex for the first time. Graff then asks Denise to come to
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grossed $ 1,306,271 in its opening weekend from 62 theatres in 51 cities in the United States and Canada. It eventually grossed $ 79.7 million in the United States and Canada ($ 450.5 million, adjusted for inflation in 2023 dollars) being one of the highest-grossing films of the time.
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While inserting approximately 30 minutes of unused footage shot for the theatrical version was considered, this "television version" made virtually no use of material edited out of the theatrical release (save the introductory sequence describing earthquakes in California on the
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and Michael Richardson (reprising their film roles of Marjoe Gortner's taunting roommates), expanding on the original storyline from the theatrical film. Editing and re-recorded dialogue helped integrate this expansion into the original film. A short scene involving
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wrote that the Sensurround vibrations "succeed very nicely in making themselves felt as well as heard and they set up an anxiety which makes watching 'Earthquake' a very ambivalent experience for anyone who, so to speak, has been there before." Gary Arnold of
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Grocery store manager, Jody Joad, who is attracted to Rosa, is a member of a National Guard unit being called up, and heads home to change into his uniform. His housemates harass him for having posters of male bodybuilders on his wall, using homosexual slurs.
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gives way, flooding the storm drains miles away. Denise, Corry and Dr. Vance make it up a ladder to safety. However, while climbing up some rungs, Remy is knocked off into the flooded sewer. Graff looks up at Denise waiting for him at the top of the
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The "Sensurround" audio of the original film was simulcast in FM stereo in the Los Angeles and New York markets. This theoretically allowed the home viewer (with the properly equipped sound system) to experience a similar effect as in the theater.
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gave the film a "BOMB" rating, stating " title tells the story in hackneyed disaster epic ... Marjoe as a sex deviate and Gardner as Lorne Greene's daughter tie for film's top casting honors." Gardner was only 8 years younger than Lorne Greene.
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Officer Lew Slade chases a car thief. After crossing jurisdictional lines, he is intercepted by a rival deputy from a neighboring district. Already enemies with a history of antagonism, Slade hits the deputy, resulting in his suspension.
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with Charlton Heston appearing to explain the special effects, followed by a live demonstration based on the film with audience participation. The attraction culminated in a simulated 8.3 earthquake aboard an underground train at
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wrote "Thanks to Sensurround, 'Earthquake' figures to be the gimmick hit of 1974. Without the gimmick, it would be difficult to distinguish this perfunctory, mediocre piece of storytelling from Universal's other disaster vehicle,
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Production necessitated the complete re-dressing of the entire Universal Studios "New York Street" backlot in order to simulate the catastrophic earthquake of the title. Along with a clever use of miniatures of actual buildings,
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the ending is clear – people are saved ultimately thru their own or somebody else's enterprise. But with an earthquake, the final solution is out of one's hands, anyone's hands – even
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between the stunt artists and behind-the-scenes stunt technicians who were responsible for triggering full-scale effects, such as falling debris. Timing was critical, since some rigged effects involved dropping six
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in San Francisco. In the fall of 2002, the pre-show was changed to a more generic "magic of making movies" theme, with slight modifications which included mentioning special effects used in other films besides
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is going to buy cocaine from some drug dealers, and the TV set in the motel room shows the scene in this film where the graduate assistant is explaining his earthquake theory to the director of the Seismology
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Graff drives his co-workers to the Wilson Plaza, dropping off Remy, Barbara, and Sam. To Remy's protestations, Graff leaves to search for Denise and Corry. Sam is attended to by Dr. Jim Vance, but dies.
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the film holds an approval rating of 44% from 32 reviews with an average score of 4.90 out of 10. The website's critical consensus reads: "The destruction of Los Angeles is always a welcome sight, but
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attack on Los Angeles, which used different extended takes of what was shown in the original film, composited with newly-filmed elements for the series. This footage was in turn shown in the
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went before the cameras in February 1974. Since Robson was also tasked with producing such a technically complex film, Bernard Donnenfeld was brought back to co-produce, but was uncredited.
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Sam's office, Graff is stunned to find Remy, who convinced Sam to offer the promotion to save their marriage. Angered, Graff admits the affair with Denise, deciding to end their marriage.
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In tears, Denise returns to Corry, who has regained consciousness. Slade and Rosa survey Los Angeles' ruins. Stunned survivors mill about the devastated landscape while the fires burn.
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was superimposed over a still frame of part of the unusable footage, resulting in the "cartoonish" nature of the shot. The television version removed the animated blood sequence.
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of February 1971. Universal was intrigued by the idea of creating a disaster on film that would not be confined to an airliner, but rather take place over a large area.
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was cast in a cameo role, for which he was credited as "Walter Matuschanskayasky". Executive Producer Jennings Lang, who had worked with Matthau on the previous year's
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station, whereupon a two-and-a-half-minute simulation of an 8.3 earthquake takes place, featuring a gas truck falling into the station, a runaway train and a flood.
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and observed, "The impulse to shout advice to the screen—get out! go away! don't enter that building—is quite powerful, so this does rank as a participatory movie."
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to be an "event film", something that would draw audiences into the theatre multiple times. After several ideas were tossed about (which included bouncing
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gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote the special effects were "terrific" but identified a basic problem with the story: "With a
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The "Sensurround" process proved to be a large audience draw, but not without generating a fair share of controversy. When the film premiered in
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record for the most stunt artists involved in any film production up until that time: 141. Major stunt sequences in the film required careful
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quarantined the only passage through. As Jody threatens to shoot them, Rosa emerges from the store, screaming to Slade for help. Facing an
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Former college football star Stewart Graff argues with his wife Remy after she fakes another suicide attempt when a mild earthquake jolts
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and only the two control tones that activated the generator can be heard. In addition, the film's original soundtrack was remixed in
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three months later – with a newly installed net over the audience to catch any falling debris – to tremendous success.
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in early 1973. Because Puzo's services contractually were obligated to the sequel, he was unable to continue any further work on
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On December 10, 2019, La-La Land Records released a fully remastered and expanded version of Williams' music, as part of the
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to come up with a new idea that would work within the same "disaster-suspense" genre. Inspiration came in the form of the
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wrote "The picture is swill, but it isn't a cheat; it's an entertaining marathon of Grade-A destruction effects".
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in the lead role for the sum of $ 600,000, plus a percentage of the profits. Rounding out the top billing were
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script sat at Universal Studios for a short period, but was brought back to life by the huge success of the
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tram ride. The tram enters a sound stage, the interior designed to look like a San Francisco underground
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that "the nonsense is bearable for the spectacle. And ... here we have a feast of feats of destruction."
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faux "debris" over audience members' heads), Universal's sound department came up with a process called "
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Matthau himself invented the name "Matuschanskayasky" as well as the fiction that it was his birth name.
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decision was made to edit the scene with an "animated blood" effect to be added in post production. The
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to drill through to the garage and find seventy survivors, including Denise, Corry, Remy and Dr. Vance.
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for the most dangerous scenes involving high falls, dodging falling debris, and flood sequences, set a
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love theme sharing the same eight-note melody, albeit in different keys). The music of the song "
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strikes then destroys much of Los Angeles. Sam and others are trapped on the upper floors of the
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The Florida attraction opened in June 1990. It began with an introductory film on the making of
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that it was specified he was the director of the "theatrical version only" (which was granted).
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social and political consequences, decides to tell the Governor of California to alert only the
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Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics
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was the second of his trio of scores for large-scale disaster films, having previously scored
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immediately found itself in a race against the clock with the bigger-budgeted disaster film,
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was hired to play the sister of Roundtree's business partner, Sal, played by veteran actor
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accessible via a parallel storm drain. Against the Colonel's advice, Graff and Slade use a
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offers little besides big actors slumming through crumbling sets." Metacritic, who uses a
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Donnenfeld and Sturges left the project early in 1972, and Universal executive producer
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Universal versus Disney: The Unofficial Guide to American Theme Parks' Greatest Rivalry
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5.1 which was simply a tag as once again only the control tones feature on the track.
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film series) was brought in after filming had already started, filling the part of an
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with him, and bring Corry, while he works on a hydroelectric dam project that summer.
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Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970–1979
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in the summer of 1974, both scores showing similarities to one another (notably
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while discounting other aspects. Without either panning or praising the film,
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used for most exterior scenes or other instances where shooting on location.
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amplifiers, that would pump in sub-audible "infra bass" sound waves at 120
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The San Francisco and BART setting was owed to the reputed setting of the
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In the wake of the tremendous success of the 1970 disaster-suspense film
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At its release, critics generally acknowledged the special effects in
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began working with executive producer Bernard Donnenfeld and director
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For the film's television premiere on Sunday, September 26, 1976 on
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The purported magnitude of the earthquake in the film (9.9 on the
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are used to help depict the earth returning to its correct axis.
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Corry has been catapulted from a collapsing footbridge into the
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Arnold, Gary (November 16, 1974). "In an 'Earthquake' Tremor".
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leaped in as a film stuntman. One of his jobs is on the set of
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The film was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards, including
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success, and was nominated for four Academy Awards. including
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featured a larger "all star" cast, Universal was able to land
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The Hollywood attraction opened in March 1989 as part of the
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Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
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Scarecrow Press. pp. 127–128. 2013: 1979: 1626:. Their airliner attempts to land at 1569: 1292: 5138:Films with screenplays by Mario Puzo 4081:Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 2645: 2496: 2490: 2281: 2219: 1848: 1373:wrote that it was an improvement on 1356: 1259:Disaster Movie Soundtrack Collection 354: 4668:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 3555:Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut 3547:Christopher Columbus: The Discovery 2805: 2793:from the original on April 11, 2008 2697:from the original on April 23, 2021 1605:and Victoria Principal, as well as 1044:(riding a wave of success from the 452:An earthquake measuring 9.9 on the 13: 2337:from the original on July 14, 2019 1958:from the original on March 6, 2016 14: 5164: 2913: 2896:. Wiley & Sons. p. 271. 2825:from the original on July 6, 2011 2683:. 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Film poster
Mark Robson
Mario Puzo
Charlton Heston
Ava Gardner
George Kennedy
Lorne Greene
Geneviève Bujold
Richard Roundtree
Marjoe Gortner
Barry Sullivan
Lloyd Nolan
Victoria Principal
Philip H. Lathrop
Dorothy Spencer
John Williams
Universal Pictures
disaster
drama film
Mark Robson
Charlton Heston
Ava Gardner
earthquake
Los Angeles, California
screenplay
Mario Puzo
George Kennedy
Lorne Greene
Geneviève Bujold

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