Airport 1970  G, 137 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: George Seaton, Henry Hathaway
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Helen Hayes, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy, Van Heflin, Maureen Stapleton, Lloyd Nolan, Dana Wynter, Barry Nelson, Barbara Hale, Gary Collins, Jessie Royce Landis, Whit Bissell
Of the five "Airport" films, this first one is the only one worth your time. Based on Arthur Haley's novel by the same name it is filled with suspense as a plane is stuck on the needed runway during a VERY snowy night. Helen Hayes won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar; nominations included Best Picture and Supporting Actress (Maureen Stapleton).
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Airport 1975 1974  PG, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Smight
Cast: Charlton Heston, George Kennedy, Gloria Swanson, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Karen Black, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Susan Clark, Helen Reddy, Linda Blair
This sequel to "Airport" falls short of the original as a small plane crashes into the flight deck of a 747. Heston is on the way to save the day as a flight attendant pilots the plane.
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Airport '77 1977  PG, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jerry Jameson
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Brenda Vaccaro, James Stewart, Olivia de Havilland, Christopher Lee, Lee Grant, George Kennedy, Joseph Cotten, Darren McGavin, M. Emmet Walsh
Another sequel to "Airport"–if you can watch yet another disaster film, then this one is for you as a private plane crashes into the ocean after being sabotaged. Will there be a rescue?
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The Concorde...Airport '79 1979 PG, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure / Thriller
aka: Airport '79
Director: David Lowell Rich
Cast: Alain Delon, Robert Wagner, Susan Blakely, George Kennedy, Sylvia Kristel, Eddie Albert, Bibi Andersson, Charo, Martha Raye, Cicely Tyson, John Davidson, Andrea Marcovicci, Jimmie Walker, David Warner, Mercedes McCambridge
Co-pilots (George Kennedy and Alain Delon) are flying a Concorde jet from Washington, D.C., to Moscow when their jet becomes the target of missile fire and in danger of crashing over the Alps. The reason behind their dangerous situation is that a passenger, reporter Maggie (Susan Blakely), is carrying secret documents that threaten Harrison Industries, and its leader (Robert Wagner) wants to destroy the information and the carrier as well.
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1. Airport (1970)
2. Airport 1975 (1974)
3. Airport '77 (1977)
4. The Concorde...Airport '79 (1979)
aka: Airport '79
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