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Earthquake 1974 123movies

Earthquake 1974 123movies

When the big one finally hits L.A.Jan. 01, 1974123 Min.
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Watch: Earthquake 1974 123movies, Full Movie Online – Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California..
Plot: Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
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5.9/10 Votes: 16,401
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56/100 | MetaCritic
N/A Votes: 257 Popularity: 13.622 | TMDB

Reviews:


Not a great disaster movie and a far far cry from The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno (a personal favorite of mine) but some decent special and miniature effects even when the performances were always the best. Still passable 1970s-era entertainment.
Review By: JPV852

This used to be one hell of a town, officer.

Earthquake is directed by Mark Robson and written by Mario Puzo and George Fox. It stars Charlton Heston, George Kennedy, Ava Gardner, Geneviève Bujold, Lorne Greene, Richard Roundtree & Marjoe Gortner.

A catastrophic earthquake hits Southern California and begins to level Los Angeles…

“It’s not a negative to have heart in the disaster genre of film”

Take yourself to 1974, are you there? Good, now maybe you can appreciate this film a little more? Maybe? Earthquake does suffer from old age, it’s a statement we see and hear a lot, but it’s a fact that some film’s stand the test of time whilst others do not. In this desensitised computer age, it is easy to forget that not all the tools available in film making today were available back when film’s like this were being made. So as is my want, I firmly judge this as a 1974 offering, to which it delivers enough entertainment to fully satisfy my genre leanings and entertainment persuasions.

The main complaint of many is the long build up of the characters, cries of boring can be read across internet forums and critics blogs. I just don’t see it that way, yes we want the quake and the mayhem destruction that will follow it, because really this is a disaster film after all, but is it so bad that the film has heart to go with the crash bang wallop? After the build up of characters, where relationships and character traits are formed, the disaster strikes and it doesn’t disappoint, utter destruction as effects and noise fill the eyes and ears, where those with a good home cinema system finding it literally does rock the house. We are then treated to a series of sequences that hold and engage our attention, upsetting passages of human sadness, punctured by heroic surges as Heston and the fabulous Kennedy set about saving life, hell! saving the town even. Then it’s the film’s fitting finale, where there are no cop outs, the makers choosing to go out with a darker edge than the detractors give it credit for.

Some can scoff at a blood splat effect, or rant about some of the acting on show, but Earthquake achieves two important things. One is that it entertains as a visual experience (quality model work), the other is that it doesn’t soft soap the devastating effects of an earthquake. As the camera pulls away from a ravaged L.A. the impact is sombre, where reflection is needed and most assuredly surely gotten. 7/10

Review By: John Chard
The Earth Moves
Sensurround! How I do miss it! How this movie misses it! It was the best thing it had going for it when it was released in special theaters with sound equipment designed to vibrate your fanny as it sat snugly in those theater seats. Unfortunately, without the vibrations, Earthquake just ain’t as much fun.

As disaster films go, Earthquake is certainly not the worst, but is far from the best. Charlton Heston, fresh from having saved a 747 from certain disaster in Airport 1975, now does his best to save the city of Los Angeles. To be fair though, we knew he wasn’t going to stop the earthquake, leaving that for Christopher Reeve in Superman some years later. But we just knew that as Construction Engineer, Stewart Graff he’d do his best to save a lot of L.A. citizens stuck in precarious situations. Why else would he be here? And just for fun, he even brought George Kennedy over from Airport 1975 with him although he’s a cop named Lew Slade now instead of tinkering around with jetliners. What a treat!

It seems that Lew Slade was chasing a bad guy who had been drunk driving and run down a kid. Unfortunately the bad guy crashes his vehicle right on the property of Zsa Zsa Gabor, which is out of Slade’s jurisdiction. When another officer who is in the proper jurisdiction berates Slade for messing up Miss Gabor’s shrubbery, Slade let’s the young officer know how much he cares about plant life by landing a right cross. This lands him a suspension, and supposedly helps us get to know his character a little better while we pat our foot waiting for the big rumble to start. Did you really think they were going to open a disaster film with the actual disaster? There’s a code in the screenwriter’s handbook that says that’s not allowed. At least that’s what I’m told.

Meanwhile somewhere else in L.A., Stuart Graff is married to Remy Royce-Graff(Ava Gardner) who was fathered by Sam Royce(Lorne Greene) when he was seven I think. Sam is also Stuart’s Boss. Stuart is having an affair with Denise Marshall(Genevieve Bujold) who happens to be the widow of a former co-worker of Stuart. We are not told whether Stuart had anything to do with the death of Denise’s husband so he could put the moves on her but they could have added that to the plot too. Generally in these types of films they throw everything in but the kitchen sink anyway so why not?

Then on the other side of town we have motorcycle daredevil Miles Quade(Richard Roundtree) along with partner Sal Amici(Gabriel Dell) getting ready to put on the show of his life. His sister is Rosa Amici(Victoria Principal, before Dallas)who has about the funkiest curly hairdo I think I’ve ever seen on film. Think Shirley Temple with coal black hair. Then there’s supermarket manager, weekend warrior, Jody(Marjoe Gortner)who happens to be a fanatic about women with curly coal black naturally curly hair as you’ll soon discover. Now all this might sound interesting on paper, and might make a good soap-opera. In this film it’s all useless information since this is a film about an earthquake and after it hits we could care less about what happens up to that point. Think of it as the filler before the thriller.

Even without the oscillating seats, the earthquake itself is still fun to watch. We get skyscrapers crashing to the ground, buildings falling on people, shards of glass piercing the good citizen’s skins, people scalded by stoves, houses explode, freeways cave in, Stuart, Remy, and Sam get trapped in a high rise, a bar comes crashing down around Lew, Miles big motorcycle stunt comes crashing down, Rosa loses her popcorn in a movie theater, Denise’s son takes a dive on his bike, and good boy Jody gets to put his uniform on and show us just how psychotic and messed up he really is. This is cool stuff folks even for 1974 type special effects. Unfortunately, the Earthquake momentarily subsides and we are left to deal with some of the silly plotting the film started out with. Guess you can’t have everything.

If you can overlook the usual silliness and terrible dialog which seems to go with the territory in disaster films, you might be entertained by some close calls and daring rescues after the earthquake. You’ll certainly get a few laughs out of Marjoe Gortner’s cracked-up soldier performance. George Kennedy is pretty darn good as the cop. Heston is better than he was in that Airport thingy, and though his romance with Bujold is an obvious mismatch, it doesn’t come near to equaling the absurdity of his relationship with Karen Black on that 747. Ava Gardner plays the bitchy Remy as if she were competing for the Shrew Olympics. Lorne Greene looks as if he wishes he was back on the Ponderosa with Hoss, Adam and Little Joe. Richard Roundtree is fun as the daredevil, but we see little of him after the earthquake. Tiger Williams as Denise’s son Corry spends most of the film unconscious and we are grateful for that. Usually the kids in disaster films are scripted to be overly cute and annoying. I think there’s a rule in the screenwriter’s disaster film handbook about that too.

If I have one suggestion to make it would be avoid the version of this film with the added TV footage at all costs. For those of you familiar with Welcome Back Kotter, if you see any footage of Rosalie ‘Hotzie’ Totzie(Debralee Scott)riding an airplane, change the channel, remove the tape, just do what you have to do. Why this goofy footage was ever added is beyond me.

In it’s original form my grade for Mark Robson wiping out L.A.: C- Hotzie Totzie gets an F and it’s back to the sweat hogs for her.

Review By: clydestuff
Awful, awful casting…and worse acting!
With the success of Irwin Allen’s “The Poseidon Adventure” and “The Towering Inferno” for Fox and Warner Brothers, every other major studio was clamoring to jump on the “disaster bandwagon.” “Earthquake” was Universal’s contribution to the genre and while it sports some impressive special effects, it also has one of the best examples of poor casting on film.

Genevieve Bujold looks too young and demure for “old man” Chuck Heston. He, on the other hand, is perfect as the husband of a very, haggard-looking Ava Gardner, who should have been cast as the sister of Lorne Greene, as opposed to being his daughter. Marjoe Gortner is forced to wear, aside from Samuel L. Jackson in “Pulp Fiction,” one of the worst hairpieces in film history.

And, thankfully, for Victoria Principal, a little show named “Dallas” came along a few years later, to help viewers forget how badly she acted in “Earthquake.”

Richard Rountree was on hand, solely to provide some “color”; thus, his role could have been called “heroic Negro on motorcycle”. A poor letdown for such an actor that had flaunted his African-American masculinity so well in the series of “Shaft” films.

Obviously, Walter Matthau was smart enough to have his contribution to this turkey uncredited.

Even John Williams’ score seems to be recycled from his composition for both of Allen’s films.

Review By: garrard

Other Information:

Original Title Earthquake
Release Date 1974-01-01
Release Year 1974

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 2 min (122 min), 2 hr 32 min (152 min) (extended TV cut)
Budget 7000000
Revenue 79666653
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Action, Drama, Thriller
Director Mark Robson
Writer George Fox, Mario Puzo
Actors Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy
Country N/A
Awards Won 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 7 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A


Technical Information:

Sound Mix 3 Channel Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints), Sensurround (3.1), Mono (35 mm optical prints), 70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 2.20 : 1 (70 mm prints), 2.39 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 3,340 m (Italy)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 100T 5254)
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm, 70 mm (blow-up)

Earthquake 1974 123movies
Earthquake 1974 123movies
Earthquake 1974 123movies
Earthquake 1974 123movies
Original title Earthquake
TMDb Rating 6.14 257 votes

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