Airport '77 (1977)
If you’ve seen the Airplane! movies (and who hasn’t?), you probably assume the original Airport franchise was pretty lousy. Actually, not only are they entertaining, but the movie that was mainly spoofed by Airplane! was 1957’s Zero Hour! The screenplay was taken word for word in some scenes. So give the other franchise a chance.
Airport ’77 is the third installment, and it is extremely exciting! Jack Lemmon plays the captain, and before you think he doesn’t have the strength for it, watch the movie. Armed with a 1970s mustache, he definitely takes control of the crisis and even shows unexpected masculinity with his girlfriend, Brenda Vaccaro. If he’s so manly and in-charge, what happens to make things literally go south? There’s an inside hijacking job, and the entire crew and passengers get knocked out with sleeping gas. When they wake up, the airplane is sinking down to the bottom of the ocean. Oh no!
As usual, disaster flicks attract a huge cast, including old timers that we can worry about because they’re frail and we have decades of history watching their movies: Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Cotten. Lee Grant, who won a Rag award the previous year for her performance in another disaster movie, Voyage of the Damned, also joins the cast. Darren McGavin, Christopher Lee, Kathleen Quinlan, Maidie Norman, Robert Foxworth, M. Emmet Walsh, and a cameo by Jack’s son Chris Lemmon are some other familiar faces you might recognize. On the outside trying to help rescue the passengers are James Stewart and of course, George Kennedy. I will never understand why he didn’t get a cameo in Airplane! since he was the only actor to be in all four of the Airport movies. Still, check out this excellently directed disaster movie with tons of special effects, stunts, and surprises along the way!
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Be sure to check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 1970's Airport here!
Be sure to check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 1974's Airport '75 here!
Be sure to check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 1979's Airport '79...Le Concorde here!
Airport ’77 is the third installment, and it is extremely exciting! Jack Lemmon plays the captain, and before you think he doesn’t have the strength for it, watch the movie. Armed with a 1970s mustache, he definitely takes control of the crisis and even shows unexpected masculinity with his girlfriend, Brenda Vaccaro. If he’s so manly and in-charge, what happens to make things literally go south? There’s an inside hijacking job, and the entire crew and passengers get knocked out with sleeping gas. When they wake up, the airplane is sinking down to the bottom of the ocean. Oh no!
As usual, disaster flicks attract a huge cast, including old timers that we can worry about because they’re frail and we have decades of history watching their movies: Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Cotten. Lee Grant, who won a Rag award the previous year for her performance in another disaster movie, Voyage of the Damned, also joins the cast. Darren McGavin, Christopher Lee, Kathleen Quinlan, Maidie Norman, Robert Foxworth, M. Emmet Walsh, and a cameo by Jack’s son Chris Lemmon are some other familiar faces you might recognize. On the outside trying to help rescue the passengers are James Stewart and of course, George Kennedy. I will never understand why he didn’t get a cameo in Airplane! since he was the only actor to be in all four of the Airport movies. Still, check out this excellently directed disaster movie with tons of special effects, stunts, and surprises along the way!
Want to watch it? Click here to see it on ok.ru and thanks "Classic Movies Kristine Rose" for posting!
More Joseph Cotten movies here!
More James Stewart movies here!
Be sure to check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 1970's Airport here!
Be sure to check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 1974's Airport '75 here!
Be sure to check out Hot Toasty Rag's review of 1979's Airport '79...Le Concorde here!