by Pat Darnell
AIRPORT 1970 starring Burt Lancaster had it all figured out long before it happened. Just go out and rent it, and sit back and have an Epiphany of sorts. It is a pre-quel to all the airplane stuff since... like bombings, divorces, stowaways, hostage taking, slavery, philandering, Nip\tuck, Captain Picard.... oh mercy -- the list goes on forever.
That's a good Idea -- Use the following check list of things that have come true since this film premiered, New York opening: 5 Mar 1970 ::All these Actors [and many more] in one movie:
__ Burt Lancaster -- Mel Bakersfeld
__ Dean Martin -- Capt. Vernon Demerest
__ Jean Seberg -- Tanya Livingston
__ Jacqueline Bisset -- Gwen Meighen
__ George Kennedy -- Pat Patroni
__ Helen Hayes -- Ada Quonsett
__ Van Heflin -- D. O. Guerrero
__ Maureen Stapleton -- Inez Guerrero
__ A mad bomber plots to blow up a jet on a snowy night [worst snowstorm ever in the Midwest]
__ Cindy, wants a divorce
__ Mel Bakersfeld ............Burt Lancaster "Don't talk to me about consequences! When Congress voted to cut airport appropriations, you never even sent in a letter of protest. And where were you when the airlines and the pilots and the rest of us were... were pleading for... for more airports and better traffic control? You were picking out the colors in the ladies' lounge. So now you've got your consequences!"
__ an elderly woman is trying to stow away on a jet to Rome__ D. O. Guerrero comes on board with a bomb in a briefcase
__ the President does not appear in this film
__ Neither is Yoko Ono in this movie
__ Guerrero wants blow up the plane so that his wife, Inez, can collect on the life insurance policy he has just purchased.
__ Vernon Demerest, has just learned that his lover, stewardess Gwen Meighen, is pregnant
__ With Ada's help, Vernon attempts to get the briefcase,
__ Guerrero [the bomber] is blown out of the jet, through the wall of the toilet [Ocupado\ no Ocupado]
__ Vernon and co-captain Anson Harris manage to land on Lincoln's runway,
__ Joe Patroni ............George Kennedy "Hold on, we're goin' for broke!"
__ Joe Patroni ............George Kennedy "I'll be back in time if I have to pull that plane out with my teeth!"
__ Joe Patroni ............George Kennedy "Let us put it this way: You promised me a box of cigars if I pull this off, right? Well, what're you standing here for? Go get 'em!"
__ Vernon's wife, Sarah, observes her husband's obvious concern for Gwen
__ Ada Quonsett ............Helen Hayes "My late husband played the violin. Not professionally, but he was very good. He once played the Minute Waltz in 58 seconds."
__ New York Life wants to talk with the Life Insurance salesman who sold the policy to Guerrero
__ A disabled jet has blocked the major runway
__ The genre of this movie is Melodrama
__ This is the disaster film that started a craze in the 1970's.
__ Winner of the 1970 Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Helen Hayes). Also nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role(Maureen Stapleton), Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Music-Original Score (Alfred Newman), Best Picture, Best Sound and Best Writing-Screenplay based on material from another medium.
__ Dean Martin received 10% of the film's gross which added an additional $7,000,000 to his salary.
__ The real star of the show, the Boeing 707 (a 707-349C, serial no. 19351 [503rd 707 off the production line])
__ Honk if you love Airport 1970 ...
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