Review of Airport '77

Airport '77 (1977)
4/10
Probably the best of the series.
23 May 2010
Warning: Spoilers
This time around a wealthy man has a lot of his priceless cargo on a jet filled with other rich snobby people and there are people on board who want the riches. They gas the crew and the three of them plan to fly off radar and onto a deserted island and unload the precious cargo and get away. While flying low to avoid radar the pilot hits a tower and damages the plane and it crashes and goes down in the ocean. The crew awake and realize the plane is about to flood and someone must get up to the top and set off a signal to alert people of there location so they can be rescued.

I have seen this movie more than any of the others and always thought it was decent. It was the first Airport movie I bought and watched many years ago. There is much more excitement, many more thrills and a great cast involved here. I also liked John Cacavas' music.

The cast includes George Kennedy, James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Christopher Lee, Olivia De Haviland, M. Emmet Walsh and Kathleen Quinlan. Directed by Jerry Jamison and he did an okay job here, maybe the best director of the series.

I hated the Benji kid cause he looked like a deformed monkey and I hated the cheesy piano player, other wise I didn't have too many complaints.

The movie was a bit more original than the other films and I give it 4/10 stars.
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