The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979)

Original title

The Concorde... Airport '79

Directed by

David Lowell Rich

Genre

drama film, action film, disaster film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

PG

Rating

4.7 of 10 from 215 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A luxury Concorde flight faces sabotage and disaster. The crew and passengers must survive attacks and technical failures while trying to land safely.

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What happens

The Concorde... Airport '79 (released in the UK as Airport '80: The Concorde) is a 1979 American disaster film, and the fourth and final installment of the Airport film series. It is directed by David Lowell Rich, produced by Jennings Lang, from a screenplay by Eric Roth and a story by Lang. The film's ensemble cast features George Kennedy, who appeared in all four films from the Airport series, along with Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, Sylvia Kristel, Eddie Albert, Bibi Andersson, Charo, Cicely Tyson, Jimmie Walker, David Warner, Mercedes McCambridge and Martha Raye. Although critically panned and commercially unsuccessful in North America, the film was a financial hit internationally, grossing a total of $65 million on a $14 million budget. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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