![]() ![]() Underneath the guise of the friendly grocery store manager, is a ruthless psychopathic Sociopathic Soldier. Beehive Hairdo: Rosa's hair is piled up several inches on the top of her head.Ax-Crazy: Jody Joad is an enthusiastic killer.This isn't to say that the potential damage to Los Angeles should be downplayed, however, as the 1994 Northridge earthquake showed. The longest earthquake ever recorded was the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which lasted around 8-10 minutes and hit 9.1-9.3 on the scale. In a real-life scenario, however, the duration of the "Big One" would likely be much shorter as the faults aren't capable of producing that kind of magnitude (Case in point, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake hit a magnitude 7.8 and lasted around a mere minute, foreshocks included). The quake clocks at around 4 to 5 minutes, which for a quake greater than magnitude 9.0 is technically correct despite duration and magnitude having no concrete link. With the limits to the faults in mind, the duration of the quake in the film is also questionable.The Richter Scale is being directly associated with damage which is not its design or function damage-based assessment is the Mercalli scale. The Strike-Slip plates around LA can only hold about an 8.0 (which is 'only' 1000 atom bombs). The greatest quake recorded in history was 9.5 in Chile, 1960. You don't get 9.9 on the Richter Scale, because rock lacks the capability to build up that much pressure before it gives to the quake.The other tenants of his building (a whole lot of Jerkasses) have no problem assuming that he's gay and riff him out over it-which means he's got quite a good reason to blow them all away when they meet again and he's packing a rifle and orders to keep the peace by any means necessary. His dresser has several pinned pictures of semi-naked men (although due to his interest in Rosa, it may have just been aids for his exercising-it is never clearly said). All Part of the Show: At least one real earthquake was not noticed in a theatre showing the film because the audience thought the (actual) earthquake was part of the movie.AB Negative: A first responder can be heard pleading for a shipment of this by radio at an aid station.The film's success inspired a scene on the Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood simulating an earthquake hitting a subway tunnel, along with a now-defunct attraction at Universal Studios Florida known as Earthquake: The Big One. (Adjusted for inflation in 2021, the budget amounts to $38 million and the gross $431 million.) Despite earning lukewarm reviews at best, the movie bore out Universal's predictions and proved a rollicking financial success, grossing $79 million while its budget had been a mere $7 million. To help draw audiences in, select screenings used a new process called "Sensurround", in which loud speakers simulated an earthquake within the cinema. The script collected dust for a time until Universal thought they could make a buck off of it following the success of Airport and The Poseidon Adventure. The screenplay was originally written by Mario Puzo of The Godfather fame, who dropped out from production due to contractual obligations to work on The Godfather: Part II. Walter Russell (Kip Niven), the amateur staffer with the Institute who discerned this, proposes that the city be evacuated, but his superior insists the cost of evacuation may be greater than the damages from the earthquake itself and that going public with their predictions risks jeopardizing the Institute's funding if they turn out to be wrong. Amidst all of these characters and all of this drama, the California Seismological Institute has calculated that Los Angeles is going to be hit by a massive earthquake – the worst ever recorded – in the next day or two. Jody Joad (Gortner) is a National Guard soldier with a day job as a store clerk, who is on the verge of a psychotic breakdown. Miles Quade (Roundtree) is a daredevil motorcyclist who's preparing for the biggest stunt of his life with his partner Sal Amici (Gabriel Dell) and his sister Rosa (Principal). Lew Slade (Kennedy) is a suspended LAPD cop. Denise Marshall (Bujold) is the widow of a friend of Stewart's, who he is having an affair with. In Los Angeles, Stewart Graff (Heston) is a former football star and construction engineer stuck in a forlorn marriage to Remy Royce-Graff (Gardner). Directed by Mark Robson, the film features the requisite All-Star Cast including Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold, Richard Roundtree, Marjoe Gortner, Barry Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan, Victoria Principal, Monica Lewi, and Walter Matthau. Released in 1974, this is one of the quintessential Disaster Movies from the heyday of the genre in that decade, alongside Airport, The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. ![]()
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