Airport (1970)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 136m
Director: George Seaton
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Jacqueline Bisset
Synopsis:
Assorted characters on board a jumbo jet all have their personal issues to preoccupy them, in addition to which their destination airport is snowbound and there is a nervous man among them who appears uncommonly attached to his attaché case.
Review:
The first of the films to be inspired by Arthur Hailey's spectacularly successful work of 'airport' fiction, and featuring all the elements that would eventually come to be parodied in Airplane, but would become risible well before then. Here the treatment is just fresh enough, the actors seem to mean it, and Ross Hunter gives it all a gloss it never quite regained.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 136m
Director: George Seaton
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Jacqueline Bisset
Synopsis:
Assorted characters on board a jumbo jet all have their personal issues to preoccupy them, in addition to which their destination airport is snowbound and there is a nervous man among them who appears uncommonly attached to his attaché case.
Review:
The first of the films to be inspired by Arthur Hailey's spectacularly successful work of 'airport' fiction, and featuring all the elements that would eventually come to be parodied in Airplane, but would become risible well before then. Here the treatment is just fresh enough, the actors seem to mean it, and Ross Hunter gives it all a gloss it never quite regained.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 136m
Director: George Seaton
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, Jacqueline Bisset
Synopsis:
Assorted characters on board a jumbo jet all have their personal issues to preoccupy them, in addition to which their destination airport is snowbound and there is a nervous man among them who appears uncommonly attached to his attaché case.
Review:
The first of the films to be inspired by Arthur Hailey's spectacularly successful work of 'airport' fiction, and featuring all the elements that would eventually come to be parodied in Airplane, but would become risible well before then. Here the treatment is just fresh enough, the actors seem to mean it, and Ross Hunter gives it all a gloss it never quite regained.