Blu-ray Review Irwin Allen: Master of Disaster Collection – Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

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Let’s look at Irwin Allen: Master of Disaster. After a successful run in TV in the mid-1960’s with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964-1968), Lost in Space (1965-1968), The Time Tunnel (1966-1967) and Land of the Giants (1968-1970), producer and filmmaker Irwin Allen – whose debut directorial film The Sea Around Us (1953) won an Oscar for Best Documentary – returned to feature filmmaking with a bang, as The Poseidon Adventure (1972) was a huge box office success. More success awaited the “Master of Disaster” as The Towering Inferno (1974) was even more successful at the box office and even earned an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. Following that success, Allen shifted his productions to Warner Bros. – following a change in the guard of management at 20th Century Fox – where he would continue to churn out more all-star disaster productions on the big screen and small. Shout Factory has gathered 7 of those productions and given them their Blu-ray debuts in this set dedicated to...

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