Airport '77

Name: Airport '77
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Released: March 11, 1977
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 36
Cast: Brenda Vaccaro, Christopher Lee, Darren McGavin, Jack Lemmon, Joseph Cotten

1977

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: March 11, 1977 | TV-PG

Starring: Brenda Vaccaro, Christopher Lee, Darren McGavin, Jack Lemmon, Joseph Cotten, Lee Grant, Monte Markham, Olivia de Havilland, Robert Foxworth, Robert Hooks

Summary: Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water.

Director: Jerry Jameson

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller

Rating: TV-PG

Runtime: 114 min

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Roger Ebert

The movie’s a big, slick entertainment, relentlessly ridiculous and therefore never boring for long. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

The story’s formula banality is credible most of the time and there’s some good actual US Navy search and rescue procedure interjected in the plot. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Silly as it is (c’mon, helium balloons?), Airport ’77 is the most suspenseful of the series, with death looming over a planeload of Oscar winners, each trying to out-ham the others before their oxygen runs out. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Here we go again--it's time for a 747 to meet disaster once more with a host of colorful characters to worry about as they go down--and this time they go down 50 feet into the ocean. Read full review

Vincent Canby

Airport '77 looks less like the work of a director and writers than like a corporate decision. Read full review

Dave Kehr

First-rate schlock; overlong and incredibly stupid, but that's part of the formula by now. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Disaster movie in which a converted luxury airliner laden with guests and art treasures is hijacked by terrorists and crashes into the sea near an oil-rig. The survivors then spend their time trying to overact their way out of the claustrophobic script, which threatens a death even more slow and painful than suffocation or drowning. Read full review

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Lowell62

Jul 12, 2021

A luxury 747, filled with priceless art and four of the five Oscar winners featured in this film (Jack Lemmon, who plays the pilot, Lee Grant, Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Cotton), is hijacked by thieves who use gas to put the passengers to sleep, while the passengers use the movie’sA luxury 747, filled with priceless art and four of the five Oscar winners featured in this film (Jack Lemmon, who plays the pilot, Lee Grant, Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Cotton), is hijacked by thieves who use gas to put the passengers to sleep, while the passengers use the movie’s dialogue to put the audience to sleep. But, thanks to the Co-Pilot, played by Robert Foxworth, still in the bad-guy phase of his career before switching gears playing good guy Chase on TV’s Falcon Crest four years later, the plane crashes in the Bermuda Triangle. Lemmon, who’s aided by the films fifth Oscar winner, George Kennedy, who is utterly wasted in his third appearance as Joe Patroni. Apart from the crash and the subsequent rescue, the rest is quite boring thanks to an anemic script, and some hammy acting by the rest of the cast, although the highlight in between is watching Brenda Vaccaro, punching a hysterical Grant. When viewing this scene at the movies during its theatrical run, everyone in the audience, applauded, as did this reviewer. And even though this is directed by Jerry Jameson, Who directed many episodes of the old Andy Griffith Show (Jamison also had Griffith’s old girlfriend from the TV show, Arlene Golonka cast in this film), this third entry in the airport film series, unlike the previous film, feels less like a TV movie. At least the rescue scenes during the latter half of the film are 10 times more credible than anything featured in the film that followed two years later, The Concorde: Airport ‘79. We just have to get through the boring stuff first.… Expand

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