When the pilot of a small aircraft has a heart attack and crashes his plane into the cockpit of a Boeing 747, several members of the flight crew are killed and the pilot is blinded. Miraculously, the 747 stays in the air on auto pilot with flight attendant Nancy Prior at the controls. Ground controllers, including her boyfriend Alan Murdock, try to teach her the basics but they soon realize they will have to get a trained pilot into the cockpit. Their first attempt fails and Murdock realizes he will have to do it. Meanwhile, various passengers have their own problems including a young girl who is destined to a life saving operation.
Stars Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy
Movie Trivia
Shooting overlapped somewhat with the tail end of production on Universal Pictures' Earthquake (1974), forcing Charlton Heston, George Kennedy, cinematographer Philip H. Lathrop, and producer Jennings Lang to juggle their schedules between the 2 films. This film was released first.
Joe Patroni (George Kennedy) appeared in all four "Airport" movies.
In his book journal "The Actor's Life", Charlton Heston relates that he had begun working on this movie only fifteen hours after he had finished the final shot on Earthquake (1974).
If you have watched this movie, what would your rating be on a scale of 1 to 10? My reviews will be based upon 1 to 10. With 1 being the lowest and 10 being the best. This movie has a rating of 9.2 out of 10.
𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝙈𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙚 𝙊𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙤𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙁𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚
𝗔𝗶𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟳⚓️✈️✈️✈️⚓️
An airplane filled with V.I.P.s invited Mr. Philip Steven's grand opening of his art collection in Florida is hijacked when a trio knock out the passengers with gas and try to steal the priceless cargo of art treasures. But everything goes wrong for the hijackers when the low flying 747 clips an oil rig and crashes in the Bermuda Triangle. While the passengers remain alive in the shallow water, a daring rescue operation is planned to bring the plane up without breaking it in two.
Stars Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Joseph Cotten
Movie Trivia
Christopher Lee accepted his role chiefly because it allowed him to work with Jack Lemmon.
This was the only "Airport" film that did not have a real-life disaster happen to an aircraft used in the filming. The 707 used in filming Airport (1970) crashed in Brazil in 1989. The Beachcraft Baron that played the one that collided with the 747 in Airport 1975 (1974) collided with another private prop plane mid-air in 1989. The Concorde used in The Concorde...Airport '79 (1979) crashed outside of Paris in 2000, killing all one hundred seven people on-board and four people on the ground, leading to the end of the Concorde program.
As was a practice at Universal Pictures for a brief period during the mid 1970s, a television version of the movie was made with a lot more footage included. This was also done for Universal's Earthquake (1974) and Two-Minute Warning (1976).
When Jack Lemmon activates the radio beacon, the radio operator who hears the beacon is his real-life son, Christopher.
If you have watched this movie, what would your rating be on a scale of 1 to 10? My reviews will be based upon 1 to 10. With 1 being the lowest and 10 being the best. This movie has a rating of 8.9 out of 10.
On 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙮'𝙨 each week I upload episodes of the TV shows that I have. Currently I have (𝟴) different TV series that I upload. I have several other TV series that I will add as I complete one of the below TV series. Each time that I complete uploading a year of each series I will create a 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘀 for that year. On 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙮'𝙨 I will add (1 or 2) movies that evening is possible. The other six days I will try to upload (4 to 6) movies each day. Once I get around 30 movies of a category "Military, Western, etc" I will do a 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘀. You will find the title & link to each movie or TV show episodes in the description section when I upload a 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁.
The TV series that I have going right now are:
The Silent Service 1957-1958. I am near the end of the last season on this one.
Combat 1962-1967. I am uploading the 2nd year.
McHale's Navy 1962 - 1966. I am uploading the 2nd year.
Twelve O'clock High 1964 - 1967. I am uploading the 2nd year.
The Rat Patrol 1966 - 1968. I am uploading the 2nd year.
The Untouchables 1959 – 1963. I am uploading the 1st season.
Tombstone Territory 1957 – 1960. I am uploading the 1st season.
Babylon 1993 - 1998 I am uploading the 2nd year.