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Airport '77 (1977)
Director: Jerry Jameson
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Joseph Cotten
Genre: Action Disaster, Mega Drama
Length: 1h 54min
A rich guy...really, really rich, loads all of his valuable art work onto a brand spanking new 747 plane and flies his art to a museum that he's opening. So far so good...
But some bad guys want to steal the art, so they poise as flight crew and take over the plane. So far so good, for the bad guys that is...
The bad guys aren't great pilots and while flying low to avoid radar they hit an off shore oil drilling platform. Which is bad, very bad!...
The plane makes an emergency crash landing into the ocean and everyone survives, which is good...
But the plane then sinks to the ocean floor which is very bad. Especially as the plane leaks!
Airport '77 (1977)
Director: Jerry Jameson
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Joseph Cotten
Genre: Action Disaster, Mega Drama
Length: 1h 54min
A rich guy...really, really rich, loads all of his valuable art work onto a brand spanking new 747 plane and flies his art to a museum that he's opening. So far so good...
But some bad guys want to steal the art, so they poise as flight crew and take over the plane. So far so good, for the bad guys that is...
The bad guys aren't great pilots and while flying low to avoid radar they hit an off shore oil drilling platform. Which is bad, very bad!...
The plane makes an emergency crash landing into the ocean and everyone survives, which is good...
But the plane then sinks to the ocean floor which is very bad. Especially as the plane leaks!
As these 1970s mega disaster movies go, this one's alright. You get a mega star cast, some soap opera drama...along with suspense and action too. What's not to like about a 747 under the bottom of the ocean! ala Poseidon Adventure. And to make this even more exciting, it's sunk smack dab in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle...Ohh scary.
What's cool is the use of actual Navy ships and rescue equipment. And we get a good, close up view on board the Navy ships too. The best part? A huge case of famous and semi famous actors.
What's cool is the use of actual Navy ships and rescue equipment. And we get a good, close up view on board the Navy ships too. The best part? A huge case of famous and semi famous actors.
How many stars can you spot in the photo?
Like the other Airport movies, this has a large cast of stars. James Stewart is the rich guy. Jack Lemon is the pilot. Christoper Lee is a good guy for once, his wife is the drunken Lee Grant. George Kennedy reprise his role. Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Cotton are on board, so is almost everyone else!
This is good clean popcorn fun.
This is good clean popcorn fun.