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

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)

Trailer

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