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Airport 1975 (1974)
Director: Jack Smight
Cast: Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Susan Clark, Helen Reddy, Linda Blair, Dana Andrews, Sid Caesar, Myrna Loy, Erik Estrada, Nancy Olson, Gloria Swanson
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Length: 1h 47min
Woo Hoo! what a fun and zany ride Airport 1975 is! We get an all star cast in this second of four Airport movies. That includes some golden oldie actors like Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy and even Gloria Swanson. This was Gloria's first film appearance in 22 years (last one was Sunset Blvd) and this is her last film appearance too.
This movie hits the ground running and never stops. I found myself quiet engrossed in this tragedy in the sky. As a jumbo jet 747 is smashed by a small single plane, which leaves a gaping hole in the front of the 747, incapacitating the flight crew and leaving Karen Black, head stewardess to fly the plane. Only one problem, she doesn't know how to fly the plane.
Airport 1975 (1974)
Director: Jack Smight
Cast: Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Susan Clark, Helen Reddy, Linda Blair, Dana Andrews, Sid Caesar, Myrna Loy, Erik Estrada, Nancy Olson, Gloria Swanson
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Length: 1h 47min
Woo Hoo! what a fun and zany ride Airport 1975 is! We get an all star cast in this second of four Airport movies. That includes some golden oldie actors like Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy and even Gloria Swanson. This was Gloria's first film appearance in 22 years (last one was Sunset Blvd) and this is her last film appearance too.
This movie hits the ground running and never stops. I found myself quiet engrossed in this tragedy in the sky. As a jumbo jet 747 is smashed by a small single plane, which leaves a gaping hole in the front of the 747, incapacitating the flight crew and leaving Karen Black, head stewardess to fly the plane. Only one problem, she doesn't know how to fly the plane.
One thing that makes this movie rock is the very professional stunts and spectacular special effects. The producers rented a real 747 to film flying. I swear during the movie the scenes of the 747, 100 feet over the mount tops look real, as does the scene of the plane's wing smashing a building. I have no idea how they did this....And the scenes of the in-air plane to plane transfer has got to be seen to be believed. Damn impressive for 1975 and in the 2015 you would never see such real stunts being attempted.
With all this impressive cast and stunts, we also get some odd things happening that makes one wonder if the producer wasn't having fun at the audiences expense. There's to many unintentional funny things that happen in this movie to name them all, a few are:
The color purple, it's everywhere! the coach section seats are an eye popping purple and so is the stewardess uniforms...and back in the control tower they have purple everywhere. Then there's Karen Black's tongue trick, not to be outdone by her hand trick. All the male flight crew refer to the stewardess as 'honey' or 'babe'
"Fly Baby, Fly"
Helen Reddy sings to kidney transplant recipient Linda Blair.
Perhaps the oddest thing in the movie is that Gloria Swanson who wrote all of her own dialogue mentions by name, Carole Lombard and Grace Moore, both who were killed in a plane crash.
Fun Rating
The color purple, it's everywhere! the coach section seats are an eye popping purple and so is the stewardess uniforms...and back in the control tower they have purple everywhere. Then there's Karen Black's tongue trick, not to be outdone by her hand trick. All the male flight crew refer to the stewardess as 'honey' or 'babe'
"Fly Baby, Fly"
Helen Reddy sings to kidney transplant recipient Linda Blair.
Perhaps the oddest thing in the movie is that Gloria Swanson who wrote all of her own dialogue mentions by name, Carole Lombard and Grace Moore, both who were killed in a plane crash.
Fun Rating