Release Year: 1970 Rating: PG Duration: 137 minutes Director: George Seaton, Henry Hathaway Producer: Ross Hunter
synopsis
One of the original "disaster" movies, this all-star nail-biter follows a series of emergencies at a large Midwestern airport on a snowy night. The weather's bad enough, but then a passenger threatens to blow up an inbound plane. Based on Arthur Hailey's novel. Sequels include Airport 1975, Airport '77 and The Concorde - Airport '79 and dozens of other catastrophe epics built from the same blueprint. Academy Award Nominations: 10, including Best Picture, Best (Adapted) Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress--Helen Hayes.
cast
Burt Lancaster as Mel Bakersfeld Dean Martin as Capt. Vernon Demerest Jacqueline Bisset as Gwen Meighen Jean Seberg as Tanya Livingston
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1970's 'Airport' is an example of how you can take a perilous situation and replay it over and over again in three sequels. 'Airport 1975', 'Airport '77' and 'The Concorde: Airport '79' were mediocre at best with the latter an absolutely disastrous disaster film but the the first film is entertaing to a point but can't back away from becoming a full blown soap opera. The movie is based on Arthur Hailey's best selling novel and takes place at a hectic airport on a winter night smack dab in the middle of a treacherous snow storm.
