The 1970s produced some fine made-for-television movies like "Brian's Song" and "Dr. Cook's Garden". However, it seems that for every good made- for-television movie like those, there was a stinker like "Terror On The 40th Floor". My guess is that this movie was rushed into production to take advantage of the publicity building for the theatrical movie "The Towering Inferno". I guess that, because the story and characters in this imitator are sorely lacking. The characters in this movie are a boring lot. I didn't care about them, and they seem pretty dim-witted. Why don't they use the fire escape stairs? Why don't they break a window and send "Help!" messages to the streets below? Those and other questions are never answered. And no doubt because of the low budget, the fire footage is infrequent and lacking in power during the few times it's displayed. The end result is a very tedious and boring effort, so it's no wonder why there was apparently no one keeping track of it to prevent it from being in its now public domain status.
Review of Terror on the 40th Floor
