Airport 1975 1974 123movies

Watch: Airport 1975 1974 123movies, Full Movie Online – When the pilot of a small aircraft has a heart attack and crashes his plane into the cockpit of a Boeing 747, several members of the flight crew are killed and the pilot is blinded. Miraculously, the 747 stays in the air on auto-pilot with flight attendant Nancy Prior at the controls. Ground controllers, including her boyfriend Alan Murdock, try to teach her the basics but they soon realize they will have to get a trained pilot into the cockpit. Their first attempt fails and Murdock realizes he will have to do it. Meanwhile, various passengers have their own problems including a young girl who is destined to a life saving operation..
Plot: When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
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Ratings:

	5.7/10 Votes: 10,774
	29% | RottenTomatoes
	50/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 203 Popularity: 12.891 | TMDB

Reviews:

There’s just a hole where the pilots usually sit!

A 747 in flight collides with a small plane and is rendered pilotless. With one of the cabin crew stewardesses forced to take the helm, the control tower must try to get a pilot aboard so the jet can land safely…

With the disaster genre of film now in full effect by the mid 70s, it was inevitable that we would see a follow up to the forerunner that was Airport (1970). One again we get a star cast list, this time thrust into mid-air peril where standard genre conventions apply. Unfortunately this is one of the weakest genre entries of the decade, where suspense is hard to find, and in fact it often comes off like unintentional comedy. Draw card actor Charlton Heston is wasted, as is George Kennedy, while the predictability factor of how it will pan out sort of kills hope of a thrilling finale.

Not a total stinker, there’s some nice aerial sequences, some rich characterisations, and Karen Black as the under duress cabin crew member trying to fly the plane, is at least convincing enough to sell the terror of the situation. But really it’s a tough sell, especially when you consider that genre highlight “The Towering Inferno” was released this same year. 5/10

Really solid action-thriller disaster flick that in some ways is better than the first, especially being leaner and going away from the overly long soap opera storyline that took up half the running time. Some impressive aerial footage and the performances, for the kind of movie this is, wasn’t bad. Is it convoluted with the actual disaster? For sure, but I was entertainined. **3.75/5**

Truly incompetent.
When I was ten I dragged my poor mother along to see this dreadful movie, because at the time I was a bit of a fan of Helen Reddy (c’mon “Delta Dawn”‘s still pretty cool!). I remember finding it rivetting. Now it is not only laughably bad, it’s also pretty boring. In 1975 I had no idea who Gloria Swanson or Myrna Loy were – let alone Martha Scott or Nancy Olson. Now I mourn their presence in the film – why do they all have absolutely nothing to do!? Once the film gets going the only thing the writer and director seem to know to do with all this great talent is flash occasionally to them looking worried. I wonder what these great actors thought when they read the script – okay for fifty pages now all I say is “I’m sure we’ll all be fine”!?! How on earth did Helen Reddy win the most promising newcomer award at the Golden Globes? For the last hour of the film her only line is “yes, dear”! And why was Linda Blair clutching a guitar desperately to her bosom if she couldn’t play it? Obviously just in case a singing nun should happen to be passing by!

One of the funniest stories about this film is that the producers approached Greta Garbo to play the Gloria Swanson role. Can you imagine Garbo breaking her long retirement for this! Poor Gloria, playing herself in her final film, comes across as a pontificating know-it-all, boring her poor secretary senseless with stories of the “good old days”. Myrna Loy has an occasional gleam in her eye when working with Sid Caesar, shame they couldn’t think of any lines for her to say.

So, ignoring the true talent on board, most of the lines go to Charlton Heston at his teeth-gritting worst. Full marks to Karen Black for keeping a straight face, and allowing later film-makers so much to parody “Does anyone here know how to fly a plane?” (Airplane!). If you get a chance read the MAD send-up in which Linda Blair is flying “without a heart” and Helen Reddy sings a song called “We’re all going to die and go to hell someday”.

Did the Universal executives add the joke of naming the airline “Columbia”?

One final point – why do all those ugly old men have such beautiful young wives and girlfriends? Another film executive fantasy?

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 47 min (107 min)
Budget 3000000
Revenue 47000000
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Action, Drama, Thriller
Director Jack Smight
Writer Arthur Hailey, Don Ingalls
Actors Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Panavision (anamorphic)
Printed Film Format 35 mm