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Airport
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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304910108
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 630491010X
Label: Good Times Home Video
Languages: English (Original Language), AnalogItalian (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Good Times Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Good Times Home Video
Release Date: March 02, 1998
Running Time: 137 minutes
Studio: Good Times Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 05, 1970
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Editorial Review:
One of the first of the big disaster films, this stodgy Hollywood product lumbers and creaks as it tries to sort out the various plot threads of Arthur Hailey's doorstop of a novel. Set at (what else?) a busy metropolitan airport, it details what happens one eventful night when, among other things, a huge blizzard threatens to disrupt air traffic for the airport manager (Burt Lancaster) even as a suicidal bomber (Van Heflin) heads into the air with mayhem on his mind. There's also an impish old lady (Helen Hayes, who won an Oscar for this role) who specializes in sneaking aboard airliners, and the married pilot (Dean Martin) is having an affair with a stewardess (Jacqueline Bisset). An old-fashioned movie that inspired a bunch of sequels, the Airplane spoofs, and a host of other disaster films. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - IT MAY BE THE FIRST DISASTER, BUT IT'S NOT THE BEST!
Watching 'Airport' after all these years, I found it disappointing to a degree. It's overly long with little action or suspense and it's cast reminded me of a predecessor to the 'Love Boat'. I give it some respect for being the first of many films of this nature, but it's really not as good as I remembered it to be. It's available on a box set with the other 3 Airport films at a bargain price so it your a fan of the series.......
Rating:  - The Original "Disaster" Movie.
Jean Seberg isn't real convincing, but then again she wasn't that great of an actress. Everyone else; superb. Still 5 stars.
Rating: - They don't make them like they used to ...
A great cast, wonderful performances, and most important - more then half the film is dedicated to character and plot development. Not like "action" flicks today.
What a brilliant film!
Rating:  - DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING
I ORDERED THE VHS TAPE "AIRPORT 70".ON THE COVER AND ON THE TAPE ITSELF IT STATES, FORMAT:COLOR.THE TAPE I RECEIVED IS IN "BLACK & WHITE" FORMAT.THIS WILL JEPORDISE ANY ORDERS IN THE FUTURE. PLEASE RESOLVE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
Rating: - Wow. What a surprise!
I have tended to remember the disaster movies of the 1970's as a vein of the action movie genre, the latter being a series of explosions and special effects linked with episodes of sex and violence, and four word sentences. Given my first hand experience with the seventies, I really wouldn't have thought I'd recommend any disaster movie to my worst enemy. Then, a friend insisted we watch Airport. I was so wrong. This is not an action flick, as described. Airport has vestiges of classic Hollywood, ... Read More
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