Airport 1975 (1974)
- Directed by
- Jack Smight
- Genre
- action film, disaster film, thriller film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 298 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A small plane crashes into a Boeing 747, killing two pilots and blinding the captain. With no one else qualified to land the plane, the crew and passengers must find a way to survive.
suspensefultensedramaticfast-pacedbleakformulaicdatedheroic
What happens
Airport 1975 (also known as Airport '75) is a 1974 American disaster film, and the second installment in the Airport film series. It is directed by Jack Smight, produced by William Frye, and from a screenplay by Don Ingalls. The film stars Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Susan Clark, Sid Caesar, Linda Blair, Dana Andrews, Roy Thinnes, Nancy Olson, Ed Nelson, Myrna Loy, Augusta Summerland, Helen Reddy in her film debut, and Gloria Swanson in her final film. The plot concerns the dramatic events aboard an airborne Boeing 747 when a small aircraft crashes into the cockpit, causing the fatalities of the First Officer and Flight Engineer and the blinding of the Captain, leaving no one aboard qualified to take the controls. Airport 1975 was released by Universal Pictures on October 18, 1974. Despite generally poor reviews, the film was a commercial success, becoming the seventh highest-grossing movie of 1974 at the US and Canada box office. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Fate is the Hunter (1964)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.