Film writer and producer Irwin Allen has made a specialty of disaster movies, and their production has often coincided with real-life versions of the disasters they feature. In 'The Poseidon Adventure' and ocean linear capsizes. The movie opened in late 1972, the same year that the luxury ship 'Queen Elizabeth' capsized. In 1974, the year that 'The Towering Inferno' premiered, three skyscrapers in Brazil caught fire. And in 1980 Allen's film about a volcanic eruption, 'When Time Ran Out', coincided with the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington.

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