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| Director: Jack Smight |
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Arthur Hailey, Don Ingalls |
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Jennings Lang, William Frye |
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Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Gloria Swanson, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. |
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| Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 |
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(NTSC Anamorphic Widescreen) |
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English, Spanish, French |
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| Studio: Universal Pictures |
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DVD Region: 1 |
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PG |
| DVD Release: Apr 2001 |
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Discs: 1 (Cloud) [] |
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| Reviews: In the wake of the 45-million-dollar gross of the original Airport (1970), Universal was all but required by an act of Congress to produce Airport '75. Charlton Heston heads the all-star cast as Alan Murdock, the former test pilot who must keep a disabled 747 from crashing in flames. The crisis begins when a businessman (Dana Andrews), flying his small private plane, suffers a fatal heart attack and the plane smashes into the cockpit of the 747. Following Murdock's radioed instructions, stewardess Nancy Pryor (Karen Black) takes over the controls. The special-guest passenger lineup includes Helen Reddy as a singing nun (a character wickedly satirized in the 1980 parody Airplane!), Myrna Loy as an alcoholic, and Sid Caesar as a garrulous passenger. While Airport '75 yielded only 25 million dollars at the box office, the franchise continued, spawning Airport '77 a few years later and Airport '79 two years after that. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide |
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