Airport 1975 Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jack Smight
Genres: Action, Drama
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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, Rovi
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