: Kurt Russell (as Charles Whitman), Richard Yniguez, and Ned Beatty.
The film recounts the horrific events of August 1, 1966, when , an engineering student and former U.S. Marine, ascended the observation deck of the University of Texas at Austin . Barricading himself at the top, Whitman used a massive arsenal of firearms to fire indiscriminately at people 300 feet below. By the time the rampage ended, he had killed 16 people (including his wife and mother earlier that day) and wounded dozens more. Kurt Russell’s Career-Defining Shift The Deadly Tower (TV Movie 1975) - IMDb the deadly tower 1975 ok.ru