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    Airport (1970)

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    For a generation that grew up on Airplane! (1980), the definitive disaster spoof, it may be impossible to take the overblown melodramatics of this adaptation of Arthur Hailey’s best-seller seriously. But the combination of a star-studded cast, multiple story lines and special effects (in this case, just an aeroplane with a big hole in it) had moviegoers biting nails and buying tickets.

    The story revolves around a busy Midwest airport on a snowy night. The blizzard-swept runways and stormy skies above the airport are stacked with movie stars going through various kinds of hell.

    Dean Martin is the veteran Global Airlines pilot with a marriage problem and a mixed bag of passengers, including geriatric stowaway Helen Hayes and psychopathic Van Heflin, whose bomb is primed to blow them all to kingdom come.

    Burt Lancaster is the unflappable airport manager who keeps things in order during efforts to land a damaged plane safely while a vital runway is blocked by a snow-bound plane.

    Lending a hand are security chief Lloyd Nolan and the cigar-chewing maintenance man George Kennedy (who spouts macho lines like, “I’ll have this mother outta here by midnight!”), as curvaceous stewardess Jacqueline Bisset mops Dino’s fevered brow while the minutes to disaster tick away.

    Airport netted over $100 million at the US box office.

    airport_000Mel Bakersfeld
    Burt Lancaster
    Vernon Demerest
    Dean Martin
    Tanya Livingston
    Jean Seberg
    Gwen Meighen
    Jacqueline Bisset
    Joe Patroni
    George Kennedy
    Ada Quonsett
    Helen Hayes
    DO Guerrero
    Van Heflin
    Inez Guerrero
    Maureen Stapleton
    Lt Anson Harris
    Barry Nelson
    Cindy Bakersfeld
    Dana Wynter
    Harry Standish
    Lloyd Nolan
    Sarah Bakersfeld Demerest
    Barbara Hale
    Cy Jordan
    Gary Collins
    Mrs Harriet DuBarry Mossman
    Jessie Royce Landis

    Director
    George Seaton
    Henry Hathaway

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