Airport '77
Directed by:
Jerry JamesonCinematography:
Philip H. LathropComposer:
John CacavasCast:
Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland, Darren McGavin, Christopher Lee, Robert Foxworth, Robert Hooks, Monte Markham (more)Plots(1)
A jumbo jet crashes into the middle of the Bermuda Triangle and becomes submerged. All the passengers aboard must then search for a way out. (official distributor synopsis)
Reviews (3)
Paradoxically, the best entry in the Airport franchise hardly takes place in an airport, or in the air. In fact, Airport '77 is closer to a sort of underfed sibling of The Poseidon Adventure than to the previous or subsequent aviation thrillers, and in that peculiar way, oddly enough, it totally works. A lot of the credit for this goes to Jack Lemmon, who with his charisma and zero showmanship beats all the actors who played the main roles in this series before or after him.
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The second best film of the Airport franchise, after the original one, of course. I was surprised by Jack Lemmon, who took on the role of the heroic captain with more than a little dignity.
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All of the Airport films, at least the first three, have something going for them. In this case, the story is essentially built just to be able to crash the plane into the sea, but it works, and the underwater scenes are very well done. Moreover, there's a plethora of great actors from Jack Lemmon to Olivia de Havilland to my favorites Stewart and Lee.
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