It’s impossible to overstate the popularity of disaster films in the mid-to-late-1970s. The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Towering Inferno (1974), Earthquake (1974), The Hindenburg (1975), Black Sunday (1977), the Airport series (1970, 1975, 1977, 1979) and others were huge box office draws, with star-studded casts: Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Dean Martin, Charlton Heston, Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, James Stewart, Gene Hackman, Jacqueline Bisset, Steve McQueen, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Olivia de Havilland — all showed up to have their worlds rocked.