Ernest Laszlo photographed it in 70 mm Todd-AO. LA-Lawyer, Airport is a film that has been unfairly tarnished by having spawned three `sequels' which were really just variations on the aviation disaster plot-line with little in common with this film. Airport (uncredited), Ben Bradley - Passenger Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. It was also Ross Hunter's last film produced for Universal after a 17-year tenure. Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water. The set built representing the interior of the 707 was left standing at Universal Studios and was eventually joined with the 747 interior set constructed for Airport 1975 on “Stage 747.” Both sets were used extensively in other Universal films and television series. A Trans Global Airlines (TGA) Boeing 707 flight crew misjudge their turn from Runway 29 onto the taxiway, becoming stuck in the snow and closing that runway. "Airport". Much sympathy is generated for struggling older woman Inez Guerrero (Maureen Stapleton, who is excellent) who discovers that her heavily insured husband D O Guerrero (Van Heflin, also excellent in one of his last roles) who has claimed to have found demolition work in Milwaukee, has actually booked a one-way ticket to Rome. A great film if you can ignore all those silly disclaimers insisting that Boeing 707s are excellent aeroplanes, etc. A blackmailer threatens to sabotage roller coasters at various American amusement parks if he isn't paid a huge ransom. (uncredited), Richard Stout - Passenger Golden Laurel – Best Supporting Male Performance: WGA Screen Award – Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium: From the soundtrack, the instrumental, "Airport Love Theme" by, This page was last edited on 25 September 2020, at 05:26. (uncredited), Elizabeth Yorker - Passenger The acting and characterisation is good and the subplots genuinely involving. An extension of the previous film, wherein a cache of adventurers return to the overturned ship to seek several fortunes. (uncredited), Cleveland Dispatcher (Not that they aren't good planes or anything...). Champlin, Charles (March 21, 1970). A divorce seems imminent as he nurtures a closer relationship with a co-worker, TGA customer relations agent Tanya Livingston. Looking for some great streaming picks? (uncredited), James Mott - Passenger (uncredited), Charlie Kaplan - Passenger At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it. "[11] "There's no electricity in it", she wrote; "every stereotyped action is followed by a stereotyped reaction. [8], Airport was released on May 29, 1970. The 707 set was used, for instance, in The Andromeda Strain and on series like Ironside. "[16] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, "Corny is really the only word for this unbelievably old-fashioned look at the modern phenomenon of an international airport: the one surprise is that the sweet old white-haired stowaway doesn't spring to the controls and bring the distressed aircraft down single-handed as Doris Day did once upon a time in analogous circumstances.
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