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Airport 1975
| Rating: | PG (N/A) |
| Genre: | Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Action/Adventure |
| Release Date: | October 18, 1974 |
| Running time: | 107 minutes |
| Cast: | Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Gloria Swanson, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. |
| Director: | Jack Smight |
| Producer: | William Frye |
| Writer: | Don Ingalls |
| Distributor: | Universal Pictures |
Description: In the wake of the 45-million-dollar gross of the original Airport (1970), Universal was all but required by an act of Congress to produce Airport '75. Charlton Heston heads the all-star cast as Alan Murdock, the former test pilot who must keep a disabled 747 from crashing in flames. The crisis begins when a businessman (Dana Andrews), flying his small private plane, suffers a fatal heart attack and the plane smashes into the cockpit of the 747. Following Murdock's radioed instructions, stewardess Nancy Pryor (Karen Black) takes over the controls. The special-guest passenger lineup includes Helen Reddy as a singing nun (a character wickedly satirized in the 1980 parody Airplane!), Myrna Loy as an alcoholic, and Sid Caesar as a garrulous passenger. While Airport '75 yielded only 25 million dollars at the box office, the franchise continued, spawning Airport '77 a few years later and Airport '79 two years after that.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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