Film director whose action movies included The Towering Inferno and King KongThe film director John Guillermin,who has died aged 89, started on cheap British B films in the 1950s and progressed to such big-budget spectaculars as The Towering Inferno, or the moment King Kong and Death on the Nile in the 1970s. He learned to work with tight resources during his eight-year apprenticeship in the lower echelons of British cinema,and proved equally responsible when given the chance to handle large forces.
Whether they cost a shoestring or megabucks, most of his 35 films were made in a thoroughly workmanlike, and Saturday-night-at-the-movies manner. Only in his later work was there sometimes a disparity between scale and quality.
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Source: theguardian.com