Earthquake is not the best movie ever made but it's more fun to watch than many of them. Some of the special effects are excellent but others could use a lot of improvement. When this came out in 1974, I thought the Sensuround feature was great. So great I sat through the movie three times in a row. It was a very low frequency that made your entire body quake during the earthquake scenes. The multiple story lines merged one way or another. George Kennedy was great as always. Oddly, there are differently edited versions of this movie. One was quite shocking. We see Marjoe Gortner shooting his three nasty housemates on suspicion of looting jewelry. Ok, that was a bit extreme. But the deleted footage made it totally different. An old woman in a destroyed jewelry store gave them a suitcase full of jewelry to watch for her. So they didn't steal it as we at first thought. There was also deleted footage of people on a jet about to land.
It's fun to watch, but also gives you a lot of food for thought.
It's fun to watch, but also gives you a lot of food for thought.