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Airport '77

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Original title

Airport '77

Year

1977

Running time

114 min.

Country

United States

Director

Jerry Jameson

Screenwriter

Michael Scheff, David Spector. Story: H.A.L. Craig, Charles Kuenstle

Cast

Music

John Cacavas

Cinematography

Philip H. Lathrop

Producer

Universal Pictures

Genre

Action | Disaster Film. Planes

Movie Groups

Airport

Synopsis

In this entry in the AIRPORT diaster-film franchise, a jumbo jet crashes into the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. As the plane becomes submerged, all the passengers aboard must find some way out. Like its predecessors, this film features an array of well-known actors. Academy Award Nominations: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design.

Awards: 1977: 2 Nominations for Oscar: Best Art Direction, Costume Design

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Critics' reviews

"The movie’s a big, slick entertainment, relentlessly ridiculous and therefore never boring for long. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"First-rate schlock; overlong and incredibly stupid, but that's part of the formula by now"

Dave Kehr: Chicago Tribune
"Here we go again--it's time for a 747 to meet disaster once more with a host of colorful characters to worry about as they go down--and this time they go down 50 feet into the ocean."

TV Guide
"The survivors then spend their time trying to overact their way out of the claustrophobic script"

Time Out
"The story’s formula banality is credible most of the time and there’s some good actual US Navy search and rescue procedure interjected in the plot."

Variety Staff: Variety
"'Airport '77' looks less like the work of a director and writers than like a corporate decision."

Vincent Canby: The New York Times
"Silly as it is (c’mon, helium balloons?), Airport ’77 is the most suspenseful of the series, with death looming over a planeload of Oscar winners, each trying to out-ham the others before their oxygen runs out."

Entertainment Weekly

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Airport '77

1977

Jerry Jameson

5.4

(2,509)