Airport

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1970-03-05

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

137 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (12262 Reviews)

Director:

George Seaton Henry Hathaway

Genres:

Drama Thriller

Cast:

Burt Lancaster Dean Martin Jean Seberg Jacqueline Bisset

Writer:

Arthur Hailey (from the novel by)

George Seaton (written for the screen by)

Fullplot:

This precursor to later "epic" 70's disaster films illustrates 12 hours in the lives of the personnel and passengers at the "Lincoln Airport." Endless problems, professional and personal, are thrown at the various personnel responsible for the safe and proper administration of air traffic, airline management and aviation at a major US airport. Take one severe snowstorm, add multiple schedules gone awry, one elderly Trans Global Airlines stowaway, shortages, an aging, meretricious pilot, unreasonable, peevish spouses, manpower issues, fuel problems, frozen runways and equipment malfunctions and you get just a sample of the obstacles faced by weary, disgruntled personnel and passengers at the Lincoln Airport. Toss in one long-suffering pilot's wife, several stubborn men, office politics and romance and one passenger with a bomb and you have the film "Airport" from 1970.

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