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| Directed by | Jack Smight |
| Produced by | William Frye Jennings Lang |
| Written by | Don Ingalls (screenplay) |
| Starring | Charlton Heston Karen Black George Kennedy Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Susan Clark Gloria Swanson Martha Scott Helen Reddy Linda Blair Myrna Loy Erik Estrada Dana Andrews music = John Cacavas |
| Cinematography | Philip H. Lathrop |
| Editing by | J. Jack Smight ( March 9, 1925 - September 1, 2003) was an American Film director. William Pierce Frye ( September 2, 1830 &ndash August 8, 1911) was an American politician from the U Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4 1923 &ndash April 5 2008) was an American Actor of Karen Black (born July 1, 1939) is an American actress, Screenwriter, Singer and Songwriter. George Harris Kennedy Jr He was raised by his mother Helen A ( née Kieselbach a ballet dancer Efrem Zimbalist Jr (born November 30 1918 is an American actor known for his starring roles in the television series 77 Sunset Strip and The F Susan Clark (born March 8, 1940) is a Canadian actress known as Katherine Papadapolis in the TV sitcom Webster Gloria Swanson (March 27 1899 – April 4 1983 was an Academy Award -nominated Golden Globe -winning American Hollywood Martha Ellen Scott ( September 22, 1912 – May 28, 2003) was an American actress Helen Reddy (born October 25, 1941) is an Australian/American Singer / Songwriter. Linda Denise Blair (born January 22 1959 is an American actress most famous for her role as the possessed child Regan in the 1973 film Myrna Loy ( August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American Motion picture Actress. Henry Enrique "Erik" Estrada (born March 16, 1949) is an American actor known for his co-starring lead role in the 1977&ndash1983 Dana Andrews ( January 1 1909 - December 17 1992) was an American film actor Composer and conductor John Cacavas (born 13 August 1930 in Aberdeen South Dakota) is probably best known for his Television Philip H Lathrop, ASC ( October 22 1912 &ndash April 12 1995) was an American Cinematographer for such films as Portnoy's Terry Williams |
| Distributed by | Universal |
| Release date(s) | October 18, 1974 |
| Running time | 106 min. Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios) a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is a major Global American Events 1009 - The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $ 4,000,000 |
| Preceded by | Airport |
| Followed by | Airport '77 |
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Airport 1975 is a 1974 Disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 hit Airport. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Airport is a 1970 film based on the 1968 Arthur Hailey novel of the same name. Airport '77 is a 1977 Disaster film and second sequel in the Airport franchise The year 1974 in film involved some significant events Events February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released A disaster film is a movie genre that has an impending or ongoing Disaster (such as a damaged Airliner, Fire The year 1970 in film involved some significant events Events February 11 - The film The Magic Christian Airport is a 1970 film based on the 1968 Arthur Hailey novel of the same name. Unlike the original film, Airport 1975 was a bona fide "blockbuster" disaster film, with an "all-star" cast and extensive promotional campaign. The movie is one among many of a class of Disaster films that became a movie-going craze during the 1970s. Its plot devices and characterizations, including a singing nun (Helen Reddy), a former glamorous star (Gloria Swanson as herself), an alcoholic (Myrna Loy), a child in need of an organ transplant (Linda Blair) and a chatterbox (Sid Caesar) were parodied in 1980's Airplane!. Helen Reddy (born October 25, 1941) is an Australian/American Singer / Songwriter. Gloria Swanson (March 27 1899 – April 4 1983 was an Academy Award -nominated Golden Globe -winning American Hollywood Myrna Loy ( August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American Motion picture Actress. Linda Denise Blair (born January 22 1959 is an American actress most famous for her role as the possessed child Regan in the 1973 film Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar (born September 8, 1922) is an Emmy Award -winning American comic actor and writer known as the leading man The year 1980 in film involved some significant events Events April 30 - The Roger Daltrey film McVicar, opens Airplane! is a 1980 American Comedy film directed and written by David Zucker Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker. The characteristics of Airport 1975 were also used in numerous similar films to come, including the film's sequels Airport '77 and The Concorde...Airport '79. Airport '77 is a 1977 Disaster film and second sequel in the Airport franchise The Concorde. Airport '79 is a 1979 American Disaster film (in the UK it was released a year later as Airport '80 The Concorde
Though derided by the critics upon its release, Airport 1975 was ultimately a success. With a budget of US$4 million, the film made over US$47 million [1] at the box office. Helen Reddy was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer - Female. Helen Reddy (born October 25, 1941) is an Australian/American Singer / Songwriter. The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and Television programs given out each year during a formal dinner The film was included, however, in the popular book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time three years later in 1978. The Fifty Worst Films of All Time is a 1978 Book by Harry Medved, with Randy Dreyfuss and Michael Medved. The year 1978 in film involved some significant events Top grossing films (U
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Plot
Columbia Airlines' Flight 409 is a red-eye Boeing 747-100 en route from Washington Dulles to Los Angeles. Scott Freeman is a New Mexico business man with an urgent sales meeting in Boise. Failure to take this meeting threatens half his sales commissions for the coming year. He is en route in his private Beechcraft Baron.
However, an occluded front has the entire West Coast socked in, with Los Angeles reporting zero visibility. That not only affects the Columbia flight but also precludes Freeman making his meeting in Boise. Both flights are diverted to Salt Lake City.
Both the Barron and the 747 enter Salt Lake's entry pattern. Air traffic control assign the jumbo to enter the pattern first, followed by the Beechcraft. As Columbia 409 is making its final approach, First Officer Urias feels a vibration on one of the adjacent panels and rises to check it out. Freeman, now rather anxious about his missed sales meeting makes a call to the Salt Lake Tower asking about the delay. The tower confirms that he is second to land after the big jet. Here, Freeman suffers a massive coronary. As he grabs his chest the Baron falls out of the pattern and descends into the approach of Columbia 409.
"Columbia four-oh-niner heavy, the Barron is at twelve-thirty. " Those are the last words before Captain Stacey looks up and sees the Baron just feet from the windshield. The Beechcraft impacts the flight deck just above the co-pilot seat. First Officer Urias, still standing, is instantly blown from the cockpit. Flight Engineer Julio receives a massive cranial trauma. Captain Stacey receives debris in the face and is blinded.
The decompression is extreme and knocks one of the stewards from the upper lounge down to the cabin below. Nancy Prior, the head flight attendant rushes up to the flight deck to find Urias gone, Julio dead, and Stacey badly maimed. Fortunately the captain is able to engage the autopilot and the altitude hold switch to keep the airplane in the air before losing consciousness.
A call from the Salt Lake control tower as to what happened to the flight Nancy Prior, in a panicky voice, informs the tower that the crew is dead or badly injured and that there is no one to fly the plane. The Salt Lake tower tells Prior to stay on the same frequency. Prior gives the assessment of the damage as a large hole on the starboard side of the flight deck that wiped out most of the instrument gauges over the engineer station.
Columbia president of operations Joe Patroni, recently a head mechanic for Trans World Airlines, is apprised of 409's situation. Trans World Airlines ( TWA) renamed TWA Airlines LLC in 2001 was a major U He seeks the advice of Captain Al Murdoch, Columbia's chief instructor on 747's for the previous four years. Patroni and Murdoch take Columbia's executive jet to Salt Lake. En route, they also communicate with Prior who is still in the cockpit. While the autopilot is keeping the aircraft in level flight, it is inoperable for turns. Something has to be done, as the jet is heading into the Wasatch Mountains. The Wasatch Range is a Mountain range that stretches about from the Utah- Idaho border south through central Utah in the western United States After successfully guiding Prior by radio on how to perform the turn, radio communications are interrupted and the Salt Lake tower is unable to restore contact.
Unable to turn, leaking fuel, and dodging the peaks of the Wasatch Mountains, an air to air rescue attempt is undertaken from a jet-powered HH-53 Super Jolly Green Giant helicopter flown by the USAF Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Captain Murdock, tethered to the rear of the helicopter, is lowered to the jet and successfully enters it through the hole in the cockpit. He then lands the plane safely at Salt Lake City Airport.
Film Facts
- Columbia Airlines is the name of a fictional airline used in the film. The plane used in the film was an American Airlines Boeing 747-123, registration number N9675, which was delivered to the carrier in 1971. American Airlines Inc (AA is a US -based airline and the world's Largest airline in total passenger miles transported and passenger fleet size WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout The aircraft was redressed in the "Columbia Airlines" livery for this film. American flew the aircraft both as a passenger jet and later as a freighter only, under the "American Freighter" titles. The aircraft's current owner and operator is United Parcel Service under the registration number N675UP and, as of 2005, is now stored at Roswell, New Mexico. United Parcel Service Inc ( commonly referred to as UPS, is one of the world's largest Package delivery companies Roswell is a city in and the County seat of Chaves County in the southeastern quarter of the state of New Mexico, United States.
- Jodie Foster and Dana Plato auditioned for the role of Janice. Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster (born November 19 1962 is a two-time Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe -award winning American Dana Michelle Plato (November 7 1964 &ndash May 8 1999 was an American actress who became famous playing the role of Kimberly Drummond in the U
- The exterior shots in the beginning of the film were shot at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia, as were shots from the following two "Airport" films. Washington Dulles International Airport is a public Airport located 25 miles (40 km) west of the Central business district of Washington D
- Charlton Heston spent time training to fly a Boeing 747 during production, and several scenes show him actually flying a real 747. Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4 1923 &ndash April 5 2008) was an American Actor of
- The 1960 film "The Crowded Sky" tells a similar story of a U. S. Navy training aircraft involved in a midair collision with an airliner. In this film, Efram Zimbalist, Jr. , played the U. S. Navy pilot killed in the collision while Dana Andrews is the captain of the airliner. [2]
- The Beech Baron in the film uses the callsign 232 Zulu, which implies that its registration would be N232Z. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Exterior shots show the registration as N9750Y. In a tragic coincidence, N9750Y was involved in a fatal midair collision with a Cessna 180 near Stockton, California on August 24, 1989 killing both pilots. WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft. Please see WikipediaWikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout Stockton is a City in California and the seat of San Joaquin County (the fifth largest agricultural county in the United States Events 49 BC - Julius Caesar 's General Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) [3]
- Footage of the Boeing 747 featured in "Airport 1975" has been re-used numerous times as stock footage in various other films (such as Elizabethtown), due to the fictional "Columbia Airlines" logo on the aircraft. Elizabethtown is a 2005 American British Film written and directed by Cameron Crowe starring Orlando Bloom and The footage of takeoff was also re-used in the sequel, Airport '77 -- without editing out the "Columbia" logo on the tail of the aircraft. Airport '77 is a 1977 Disaster film and second sequel in the Airport franchise
- First broadcast on NBC television, September 20, 1976.
- Linda Blair shot her scenes in 3 days. Linda Denise Blair (born January 22 1959 is an American actress most famous for her role as the possessed child Regan in the 1973 film
- Footage from the film (including alternate shots not used in the theatrical release) were used in The Incredible Hulk TV series Season 1, Episode 5: "747" Original Air Date: 7 April 1978. This article is about the comic book character and series For all other media appearances see Hulk in other media. [4]
- The movie is referenced in an episode of Family Guy, where the actress Karen Black appears in order to land a plane. Family Guy is an animated American television sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane that airs on Fox and regularly on other Karen Black (born July 1, 1939) is an American actress, Screenwriter, Singer and Songwriter. Peter Griffin mentions that she landed a plane in "Airport '75", but the cast of Dawson's Creek is too young to remember the movie. Peter Griffin is a Fictional character and the Protagonist of the animated television series Dawson's Creek was an American Primetime Television Drama which initially aired from January 20, 1998
- This was Gloria Swanson's last film after an extensive 50 year career.
Cast
- Charlton Heston as Alan Murdock
- Karen Black as Nancy Pryor
- George Kennedy as Joe Patroni
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Captain Stacy
- Susan Clark as Mrs. Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4 1923 &ndash April 5 2008) was an American Actor of Karen Black (born July 1, 1939) is an American actress, Screenwriter, Singer and Songwriter. George Harris Kennedy Jr He was raised by his mother Helen A ( née Kieselbach a ballet dancer Efrem Zimbalist Jr (born November 30 1918 is an American actor known for his starring roles in the television series 77 Sunset Strip and The F Susan Clark (born March 8, 1940) is a Canadian actress known as Katherine Papadapolis in the TV sitcom Webster Patroni
- Gloria Swanson as Gloria Swanson
- Martha Scott as Sister Beatrice
- Helen Reddy as Sister Ruth
- Guy Stockwell as Col. Gloria Swanson (March 27 1899 – April 4 1983 was an Academy Award -nominated Golden Globe -winning American Hollywood Martha Ellen Scott ( September 22, 1912 – May 28, 2003) was an American actress Helen Reddy (born October 25, 1941) is an Australian/American Singer / Songwriter. Guy Stockwell ( 16 November 1934 – 6 February 2002) was an American actor who appeared in nearly 30 movies and 250 television series Moss
- Jerry Stiller as Sam
- Roy Thinnes as First Officer Urias
- Erik Estrada as Flight Engineer Julio
- Dana Andrews as Scott Freeman
- Sid Caesar as Barney
- Linda Blair as Janice Abbott
- Nancy Olson as Mrs. Gerald "Jerry" Stiller (born June 8 1927 is an American Emmy Award -nominated Comedian and actor Roy Thinnes (born April 6, 1938) is an American Television Actor. Henry Enrique "Erik" Estrada (born March 16, 1949) is an American actor known for his co-starring lead role in the 1977&ndash1983 Dana Andrews ( January 1 1909 - December 17 1992) was an American film actor Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar (born September 8, 1922) is an Emmy Award -winning American comic actor and writer known as the leading man Linda Denise Blair (born January 22 1959 is an American actress most famous for her role as the possessed child Regan in the 1973 film Nancy Ann Olson Olson married the lyricist Alan Jay Lerner in 1950 had two daughters and did not seriously follow her acting career Abbott
- Kip Niven as Lt. Thatcher
- Ed Nelson as Maj. Edwin Stafford Nelson (born December 21, 1928) is an American Actor. Alexander
- Beverly Garland as Mrs. Beverly Garland (born October 17, 1926) is an American film and television Actress, businesswoman and hotel owner Freeman
- Myrna Loy as Mrs. Myrna Loy ( August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American Motion picture Actress. Devaney
- Linda Harrison as Winnie (credited as Augusta Summerland)
- Christopher Norris as Stewardess Bette
Sequels
Awards
- 1975 Linda Blair (nominated) Oscar - Best Supporting Actress
- 1975 Linda Blair (nominated) Golden Globe - Best Supporting Actress
- 1975 Helen Reddy (nominated) Golden Globe - Most Promising Newcomer - Female
External links
- Airport 1975 at the Internet Movie Database
- Photo of the aircraft used in the film prior to retirement in 2005: [5]
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