"70's Month" is quickly coming to a close and I've already looked back at two notable disaster films from that decade, Airport '77 and The Poseidon Adventure, but there's one more I wanted to include; 1974's Earthquake.
The plot here isn't anything too special. An earthquake, measuring 9.9 on the Richter Scale, destroys Los Angeles. Like most natural disaster movies you watch it for the effects and to see the characters try to navigate their way through crisis. The Cast in this one includes Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, , Richard Roundtree, Marjoe Gortner, and Barry Sullivan, and he film did win a Special Achievement Academy Award for Visual Effects.
Overall, Earthquake it's not a masterpiece (and it's arguably not even that good of a movie), but it is my favorite movie about an earthquake. Maybe it's the cast, maybe it's that great John Williams theme... Whatever the reason, I always enjoy watching this movie and rewatchability carries a lot of weight for me.
4 out of 5
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