Airport 1975
1974 · Movie · PG · 107 min · ★ 5.8 · 38% critics
After a midair collision leaves a passenger jet without functioning pilots, a flight attendant is forced to keep the plane steady while help on the ground talks her through each step. With damaged systems and a cabin full of anxious travelers, the race to bring everyone down safely becomes a tense, high-stakes ordeal.
Based on Airport
Also known as Airport '75 · Airport 2: Airport 1975
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Details
- Years
- 1974
- Release date
- 1974-10-18
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 38/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.8/10 (293 votes)
- Box office
- $103,000,000
- Budget
- $3,000,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a fast-moving, star-packed 1970s disaster ride with some unintentional laughs and airborne tension; Not for you if you need realism, subtle drama, or consistently serious suspense like Earthquake.
Pros: strong central performance; entertaining disaster premise; fun ensemble cast | Cons: corny dialogue; far-fetched situations; uneven suspense
Themes
- helicopter
- husband wife relationship
- airplane
- cataclysm
- airport
- based on novel or book
- guitar
- stewardess
- pilot
- alcoholism
- sequel
- aviation
- +7 more
Cast & crew
Charlton Heston
as Alan Murdock
Karen Black
as Nancy Pryor
George Kennedy
as Joe Patroni
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
as Captain Stacy
Susan Clark
as Helen Patroni
Helen Reddy
as Sister Ruth
Linda Blair
as Janice Abbott
Dana Andrews
as Scott Freeman
Roy Thinnes
as Urias
Sid Caesar
as Barney
Directed by Jack Smight