Earthquake details
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 1
Movie Details:
- Director: Mark Robson
- Produced By: Universal
- Year: 1974
- Run Time: 122 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Set in: Los Angeles, CA
- MPAA Rating: PG
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Action
- Filmed In: Color
- Key Cast: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold, Richard Roundtree, Walter Matthau, Lloyd Nolan, Full Credits
- Awards: Best Art Direction (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1974), Best Cinematography (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1974), Best Editing (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie 1974), Full Awards
Los Angeles is the natural site for a film about earthquakes: they happen there frequently, and the landscape is familiar to moviegoers from thousands of films. A huge number of ongoing vignettes which include cameos from numerous celebrities and stars are tied together by the ongoing efforts of architect Graff (Charleton Heston) to rescue his estranged spoiled-rich-girl wife (Ava Gardner), while helping out with the ongoing rescue efforts taking place around him and while trying to determine what has happened to his mistress Denise (Genvieve Bujold). The rumbling sound effect designed for this film (Sensurround) won a "Best Sound" Oscar for the film in 1975. by Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- disaster
- corruption
- death
- earthquake
- seduction
- love-triangle
- survivor
Themes:
- Daring Rescues
- Forces of Nature
