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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Questionable for Children Movie Release: 1974 DVD Release: 05/01/2001 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 46 mins Studio: GT Media Members Wishing: 3 Genres: Action, Drama, Disaster Film, Ensemble Film

In the wake of the 45-million-dollar gross of the original Airport (1970), Universal was all but required by an act of Congress to produce Airport '75. Charlton Heston heads the all-star cast as Alan Murdock, the former test pilot who must keep a disabled 747 from crashing in flames. The crisis begins when a businessman (Dana Andrews), flying his small private plane, suffers a fatal heart attack and the plane smashes into the cockpit of the 747. Following Murdock's radioed instructions, stewardess Nancy Pryor (Karen Black) takes over the controls. The special-guest passenger lineup includes Helen Reddy as a singing nun (a character wickedly satirized in the 1980 parody Airplane!), Myrna Loy as an alcoholic, and Sid Caesar as a garrulous passenger. While Airport '75 yielded only 25 million dollars at the box office, the franchise continued, spawning Airport '77 a few years later and Airport '79 two years after that. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Charlton Heston - Alan Murdock
Karen Black - Chief Stewardess Nancy Pryor
George Kennedy - Joseph Patroni
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. - Pilot Stacy
Susan Clark - Mrs. Patroni

Goodtimes' DVD of Jack Smight's Airport 1975 is a meat-and-potatoes-level release, basics done very nicely as far as they go. The image is letterboxed in the anamorphic Panavision aspect ratio of 2.35:1 and is a surprisingly strong film-to-video transfer, capturing the full beauty of the extended aerial photographic sequences depicting the 747 flying against the night and dusk skies, as well as the better special effects in their optimum state. The sound has also been mastered at a decent volume. The 106-minute movie has been given a total of 18 chapters, which is reasonably generous and breaks down the major sequences. There are no real extras apart from some biographical data, some only a single line, on some of the principal cast members. The disc opens automatically to the simple single-layer menu on start-up, with the "play" option in the default position. ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide