You'll bury us all

WHAT A WAY TO GO!

1964

Directed by J. Lee Thompson

Written by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Gwen Davis

Spoilers: moderate

What a disaster: Lava come down soft and hot, you betta lava me now, or lava me not

WHEN TIME RAN OUT...

1980

Directed by James Goldstone

Written by Carl Foreman and Stirling Silliphant

Spoilers: moderate

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