One of the original "disaster" movies, this all-star nail-biter follows a series of emergencies at a large Midwestern airport on a snowy night.
The weather's bad enough, but then a passenger threatens to blow up an inbound plane. Based on Arthur Hailey's novel.
Sequels include Airport 1975, Airport '77 and The Concorde - Airport '79 and dozens of other catastrophe epics built from the same blueprint.
Directed by
George Seaton
Henry Hathaway
Cast
Burt Lancaster - Mel Bakersfeld
Dean Martin - Captain Vernon Demerest
Jean Seberg - Tanya Livingston
Jacqueline Bisset - Gwen Meighen
George Kennedy - Joe Patroni
Helen Hayes - Ada Quonsett
Van Heflin - D O Guerrero
Maureen Stapleton - Inez Guerrero
Production Co.
Universal
Rank Film Distributors Ltd
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Produced by
Jacques Mapes
Ross Hunter
Studio
Universal Pictures
Writer
Arthur Hailey
George Seaton
Music
Alfred Newman
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