Back home

Airport

427 votes

Producing House

An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1970-03-25

Runtime: 137 mins

Director: George Seaton

Spoken language: Italiano, English

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Original title: Airport

Production Companies: Ross Hunter Productions

Production Countries: United States of America

Reviews

W

Wuchak
_**Quaint, but fairly compelling airport soap opera with a disaster element**_ During a snowstorm at Lincoln International Airport in Chicago, the manager of the airport (Burt Lancaster) works overtime to clear the main runway of a Boeing 707 that’s stuck in the snow while dealing with his failing marriage. Meanwhile the next flight to Rome piloted by his brother-in-law (Dean Martin) has a suspicious person with an attaché case on board (Van Heflin). George Kennedy plays the head mechanic, Jean Seberg a customer relations agent, Jacqueline Bisset a flight attendant and Helen Hayes a stowaway. "Airport" (1970) was the movie that kicked-off the disaster craze of the 70s. It’s not great like “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972), but it’s more compelling and less bloated than “The Towering Inferno” (1974). The soap operatic first half paves the way for the disaster-oriented second. It’s intentionally old-fashioned and was a huge hit at the box office. I wasn’t sure about it for the first 20 minutes, but I then found myself involved in the characters and their story, keeping my interest till the end. After disaster films developed a bad rap years later, Lancaster panned “Airport” as the “worst piece of junk ever made,” which is ironic considering it was his most successful movie at the box office BY FAR. The film runs 2 hours, 16 minutes, and was shot at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, Minneapolis, and Universal Studios, Universal City, California. GRADE: B
2021-04-09

Recommendations

Contempt
3.5

Contempt

1963-10-29

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his di

Ronia: The Robber's Daughter
3.5

Ronia: The Robber's Daughter

1984-12-14

Ronia lives happily in her father's castle until she comes across a new playmate, Birk, in the nearb

The Silence of the Lambs
4.2

The Silence of the Lambs

1991-02-14

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to int

Desert Hearts
3.5

Desert Hearts

1985-10-01

While waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed literature professor finds herself unexpectedly at

Swimming Pool
3.2

Swimming Pool

2003-05-21

A British crime novelist travels to her publisher's upmarket summer house in Southern France to seek

Once Upon a Time in America
4.2

Once Upon a Time in America

1984-05-23

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea

Mystic River
3.9

Mystic River

2003-10-08

The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tr

Snakes on a Plane
2.7

Snakes on a Plane

2006-08-17

FBI agent Neville Flynn boards a flight from Honolulu, Hawaii to Los Angeles, escorting a key witnes

Jurassic Park III
3.1

Jurassic Park III

2001-07-18

In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Ama

Once Upon a Time in the West
4.1

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968-12-21

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jil

Bang, Boom, Bang
3.8

Bang, Boom, Bang

1999-08-26

Bank robber Kalle Grabowski escapes from prison while his unemployed smalltime crook buddy is sittin

Eyes Wide Shut
3.7

Eyes Wide Shut

1999-07-16

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill be

Longing
3.1

Longing

2006-02-15

An average, everyday metalworker and volunteer firefighter content in his marriage to his childhood

To Catch a Thief
3.6

To Catch a Thief

1955-08-03

When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The

Das Boot
4

Das Boot

1981-09-17

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T

Chocolat
3.5

Chocolat

2000-12-22

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where t

The Hustler
3.8

The Hustler

1961-09-25

Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude.

The Man Who Fell to Earth
3.2

The Man Who Fell to Earth

1976-03-18

Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. A

Straw Dogs
3.6

Straw Dogs

1971-11-25

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In orde

Arlington Road
3.5

Arlington Road

1999-03-19

Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his