Airport 1975

1974
PG
1h 47m

IMDb RATING

5.7/10

12K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

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Dark Comedy Disaster Action Drama Thriller

A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.A 747 in flight collides with a small plane, and is rendered pilotless. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.

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IMDb RATING

5.7/10

12K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

4,379

6,075

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination

Trivia
Shooting overlapped somewhat with the tail end of production on Universal Pictures' Earthquake (1974), forcing Charlton Heston, George Kennedy, cinematographer Philip H. Lathrop, and producer Jennings Lang to juggle their schedules between the two films. This film was released first.

Goofs
The plane takes off from Washington Dulles Airport in complete darkness, in the early hours of the morning. It heads west to Los Angeles, however on the exterior shots of the plane flying west, dawn is seen rising in the west and not the east.

Quotes
Oringer: Is there much damage?
Joe Patroni: No, not much, theres just a hole where the pilots usually sit.

Connections
Edited into Emergency!: The Stewardess (1975)

Soundtracks
Best Friend
Lyrics and Music by Helen Reddy and Ray Burton (as R. Burton)
Sung by Helen Reddy

User reviews141

Review

Featured review

6/10

Not as bad as you may think

A mid-air collision leaves a 747 without a pilot. Charlton Heston, Karen Black and George Kennedy star in this campy far fetched adventure. Acting is wooden and unconvincing and the plot ranges from strange to absurd but the air sequences are by far the best in any air disaster film and well worth a look. It is a typical disaster film for it's time but is thankfully one of the good ones unlike The Concorde or The Swarm. People give it a hard time claiming it to be one of the worst films ever made but it obviously isn't as there are many millions of mainstream films worse than this and many worse disaster movies if you want proof watch any of Irwin Allen's late 70's productions.