Walter Russell (Kip Niven), the amateur staffer of the Institute who discerned this, proposes that the city be evacuated, but his superior insists that the cost of evacuation could be even greater than that of the earthquake itself. Amidst all these characters and all this drama, however, the California Seismological Institute has calculated that Los Angeles is going to be hit by a massive earthquake, the worst ever recorded, in the next day or two. Jody Joad (Gortner) is a National Guardsman with a day job as a store clerk who is on the verge of a psychotic breakdown. Miles Quade (Roundtree) is a motorcycle stuntman who is preparing for the biggest stunt of his life with his partner Sal Amici (Gabriel Dell). Lew Slade (Kennedy) is a disgruntled cop. Denise Marshall (Bujold) is the widow of a friend of Stewart's whom he has an affair with. Stewart Graff (Heston) is a construction engineer stuck in a forlorn marriage to Remy Royce-Graff (Gardner). Directed by Mark Robson, and starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold, Richard Roundtree, Marjoe Gortner, Barry Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan, Victoria Principal, Monica Lewis and Walter Matthau. The quintessential Disaster Movie from the outbreak of that genre in the 70s, alongside Airport, The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno.
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