Saturday 11 October 2014

Airport (1970 George Seaton)

Good, entertaining film undermined by cheesy optical effects (which are hilarious).

Burt Lancaster (an actor who doesn't seem to have a modern equivalent), Dean Martin, Jean Seberg (not a great role - she doesn't have enough to do), Jacqueline Bisset, Helen Hayes (winning Oscar), Van Heflin, George Kennedy, Maureen Stapleton, Lloyd Nolan, Jessie Royce Landis.

Ross Hunter produced it for Universal. Ernest Laszlo shot it. Arthur Hailey wrote the book. Alfred Newman scored it.

It's funny to see how close Airplane! is to it.

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