What a disaster: Maybe they ought to leave it the way it is—a kind of shrine to all the bullshit in the world

THE TOWERING INFERNO

1974

Directed by John Guillermin and Irwin Allen

Written by Stirling Silliphant (based on the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson)

Spoiler alert: moderate

What a disaster: Nobody dies on my airplane, not me, not him, not them—not even you, you son of a bitch

SKYJACKED

1972

Directed by John Guillermin

Written by Stanley R. Greenberg (based on the novel Hijacked by David Harper)

Spoiler alert: moderate