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Earthquake (1974),
Director: Mark Robson, rated PG
When the
big one finally hits L.A.
  Starring: Charlton Heston, George Kennedy, Ava Gardner,
Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold, Richard Roundtree, Marjoe
Gortner, Victoria Principal
DML Rating:
★★★★★★★★☆☆
- great
"I think there are
still people alive down there and I want to get them out!" -
Stewart Graff
Why watch this?
Heston in the middle of a huge disaster... He's the perfect
man-of-action I want in charge.
Plot Summary: The
people of Los Angeles find their lives disrupted and thrown into
chaos by a catastrophic earthquake. Among them are an architect
dealing with marital problems and a new romance, a suspended
police officer, and a seismologist predicting further disasters.
The film follows their struggles for survival amidst the
destruction and their interwoven stories as they attempt to cope
with the aftermath of the quake.
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Dad's Preview:
I love well-done disaster films. I'm also a huge Chuck Heston fan,
so this epic, filmed in
Sensurround (the theater actually shook during the quake
sequences), blew me away. As a determined kid, I saw it in theaters over ten
times. What the film does well is fully develops its characters.
It also realistically depicts a massive
quake in a very crowded city. Who will survive the initial
disaster and the aftershocks to follow? For its time, the effects were pretty darn good. I
still cringe when the truckload of cattle careens off the
collapsing overpass bridge. Dang! |
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