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- Airport '77 sounds like it would be the dopiest of them all, but it's actually not bad, thanks to a surprisingly strong cast and a tendency to avoid any camp. Rated: 2.5/4 • Jul 9, 2016 This trashy adventure-melodrama is the second in the film series that began in 1970.
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So “Airport ‘77” isn’t merely a remake of the first two “Airport” pictures, but also of “The Poseidon Adventure”. A few more bucks and they could have thrown in “Run Silent, Run Deep.” The movie’s a big, slick entertainment, relentlessly ridiculous and therefore never boring for long.
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The story about the mid-air hijack of a multi-millionaire's private 747 carrying a collection of priceless works of art. The terrified pilot is forced by the hijackers to fly low to avoid radar ...
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- Jerry Jameson
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- Jack Lemmon
The plot of this lavish Thriller surrounds a plane filled with VIPs heading to James Stewart mansion on a island in the South Atlantic, and valuable cargo aboard, the plane is ripe for art thieves getting onto the plane and taking over, ultimately getting it into the course of the Bermuda Triangle.
Airport '77 sounds like it would be the dopiest of them all, but it's actually not bad, thanks to a surprisingly strong cast and a tendency to avoid any camp. Full Review | Original Score:...
Despite mixed critical reviews, Airport '77 was a box-office hit, grossing $91.1 million worldwide. It was nominated for two Academy Awards.
Airport '77: Directed by Jerry Jameson. With Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotten. Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water.
User Reviews. A luxury 747, filled with priceless art and four of the five Oscar winners featured in this film (Jack Lemmon, who plays the pilot, Lee Grant, Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Cotton), is hijacked by thieves who use gas to put the passengers to sleep, while the passengers use the movie’s dialogue to put the audience to sleep.