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Release Date:
5 March 1970 (USA)
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The #1 novel of the year - now a motion picture!
Plot:
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved. full summary | add synopsis
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Won Oscar.
Another 5 wins
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17 nominations
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(8 articles)
Hollywood Bokeh: The Day the Music Died
(From CinemaSpy. 1 September 2009, 9:05 PM, PDT)
Which was the best year for movies: 1977, 1994, or 1999?
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 5 August 2009, 5:00 AM, PDT)
(From CinemaSpy. 1 September 2009, 9:05 PM, PDT)
Which was the best year for movies: 1977, 1994, or 1999?
(From EW.com - PopWatch. 5 August 2009, 5:00 AM, PDT)
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A sort of 'Grand Hotel' in the sky...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Burt Lancaster | ... | Mel Bakersfeld |
 | Dean Martin | ... | Capt. Vernon Demerest |
 | Jean Seberg | ... | Tanya Livingston |
 | Jacqueline Bisset | ... | Gwen Meighen |
 | George Kennedy | ... | Joe Patroni |
| Helen Hayes | ... | Ada Quonsett |
 | Van Heflin | ... | D. O. Guerrero |
 | Maureen Stapleton | ... | Inez Guerrero |
| Barry Nelson | ... | Capt. Anson Harris |
 | Dana Wynter | ... | Cindy Bakersfeld |
| Lloyd Nolan | ... | Harry Standish |
| Barbara Hale | ... | Sarah Bakersfeld Demerest |
 | Gary Collins | ... | Cy Jordan |
| John Findlater | ... | Peter Coakley |
| Jessie Royce Landis | ... | Mrs. Harriet DuBarry Mossman |
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137 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.20 : 1 more
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4-Track Stereo (35 mm magnetic prints) |
70 mm 6-Track (Westrex Recording System) (70 mm prints) |
Mono (35 mm optical prints)
Certification:
Singapore:PG |
France:U |
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
West Germany:16 (f) |
USA:G (Certificate #22114) |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-8 |
Iceland:L |
Norway:12 |
Sweden:11 |
UK:PG
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Expanded from a Canadian TV production Arthur Hailey wrote called Flight Into Danger (1956) (TV), whose cast included Canadian actor and future "Star Trek" (1966) engineer James Doohan.
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Continuity: In several scenes which are supposedly sequential, the snow on the roof of Mobile One (the station wagon with the emergency light on top) appears and disappears.
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Ada Quonsett:
My late husband played the violin. Not professionally, but he was very good. He once played the Minute Waltz in 58 seconds.
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Referenced in La poliziotta a New York (1981)
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Watching AIRPORT today is like watching a parody of the film because of all of the spinoffs that followed, including the hilarious AIRPLANE! And sometimes you have to wonder about the humor--especially the scene where the priest slaps a hysterical man across the aisle without even a glance at him.
But the sub-plots (and there are quite a few) hold together very well and at the center of all the suspense is a humorous plot involving a little old lady stowaway (Helen Hayes). Her interrogation scene with Jean Seberg is priceless and all the way through she shows a remarkable talent for scene-stealing. It's hard to watch anyone else when she's going through her paces.
The suspense build-up is slow but steady once the plane takes off in a snowstorm--and by the way, the snow effects are very realistic for a change--almost as though the film was shot in a real blizzard, which it probably wasn't.
This is well played by the entire cast--with the exception of Dean Martin who looks too casual even when the plane is making a final, desperate landing. He never gets inside his role as a pilot. Burt Lancaster doesn't do much with his character either--but everyone else shines. Maureen Stapleton is touching as the worried wife of the bomber (Van Heflin). Heflin was in his last film role here, looking rather flabby and worn but good as the paranoid bomber.
Too bad that two of the male leads gave less than adequate performances. It would have helped considerably to make us believe more in the overall tale. By today's standards, the film looks dated and a bit overwrought almost to the point of comic foolishness--but that's what we get for seeing all the subsequent 'Airport' films.