It's nostalga to me doesn't hurt it a bit either. It's cinematic junk food that tastes terrific. "Airport 1975" itself is a campy, fun, escapist thriller/adventure. provided 90% of the inspiration for one of the best comedies ever: "Airplane!". Of course, as we come to now, "JAWS" is still an indisputable classic and one of the best movies of it's type ever. I came out of the theater thrilled with both movies, thinking they were cut from the same cloth.
Seeing one movie in a theater was a special deal for me. I really was wanting to see "JAWS" and it was just a happy accident that "JAWS" was double featured with this movie. So, it was with these feelings that I went to see this movie with in early 1976. Also, seeing these giant pieces of metal leave the ground was almost like magic and yes, it would be a thrill to be in it but. Flying was a much more exclusive and expensive thing back then, before deregulation. I was a kid when this came out and there was this glamourous, sleek mystique to airplanes and airports for me. song.Ĭharlton Heston is his ultra macho self and whenever he's in a movie, I'm usually loving it. Still, I thought Linda Blair would end up launching pea soup at Sister Helen Ready as she sang that. So, in response to this, Linda plays the Kidney patient with a nose scruntching, smiling sweetness that makes you think she is possessed once again. I *really am* nice." At the time, the "Hollywood Press" was paranoid with the effect making "The Exorcist" had on Linda Blair. That mission is to tell the world "You see, I'm not I'm not a Demon monster, like I played in The Exorcist. Then there is Linda Blair who seems to be on a mission with her role as a hopeful kidney transplant patient. "Of course, I never did anything I was expected to do." Most of her lines are so delightfully stereotypical it makes Ginger from "Gilligan's Island" look complex. Some cockpit scenes use badly matched rear projection while others cockpit rear projection scenes look fantastic.Ĭliques' abound everywhere, as in the portrayal of Gloria Swanson by. The large scale airplane shots are great and very cinematic.
The script still sounds like a TV movie and the special effects are very uneven. It's been said that this project started out as a TV movie but got bumped up to a feature film along the way.
the dialog, the music, the look has that soap opera look. Reviewed by pazuzu-2 7 / 10 This is Columbia 409.Īhhh, this is delightfully undiluted Hollywood dreck of the most charming and enjoyable kind. Meanwhile, various passengers have their own problems including a young girl who is destined to a life saving operation. Their first attempt fails and Murdock realizes he will have to do it. Ground controllers, including her boyfriend Alan Murdock, try to teach her the basics but they soon realize they will have to get a trained pilot into the cockpit. Miraculously, the 747 stays in the air on auto-pilot with flight attendant Nancy Prior at the controls. When the pilot of a small aircraft has a heart attack and crashes his plane into the cockpit of a Boeing 747, several members of the flight crew are killed and the pilot is blinded.