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Airport
(1970)
The #1 novel of the year - now a motion picture!
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Stars: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset, George Kennedy
Director: George Seaton
Writer: George Seaton, Arthur Hailey
Language: English
Studio: Universal Pictures
Duration: 137

Airport had enough plot and enough star power in its cast for three feature films, and it only encompassed about half of the complexity or characters found in Arthur Hailey's best-selling potboiler. Essentially built around 12 harrowing hours at a major Midwestern airport, the film had everything an audience of the period could have wanted -- suspense, romance, drama, and comedy -- all spread across a vast canvas. Mel Bakersfeld (Burt Lancaster) is the manager of Lincoln Airport, facing a night beset by the worst blizzard in a decade, a wife (Dana Wynter) who announces she wants a divorce, a primary runway blocked by an airliner stuck in a snowdrift, and a governing board ready to fire him. Bakersfeld's cynical, smooth-talking brother-in-law, Vernon Demerest (Dean Martin), won't let up on his criticism of the management at Lincoln, but he has his own problems as well, mostly in the form of a young stewardess, Gwen Meighen (Jacqueline Bisset), who is pregnant by him and whom he finds he genuinely loves. Add to that the presence of an old lady stowaway (Helen Hayes) and a mentally disturbed passenger (Van Heflin) carrying a bomb, and there's more than enough plot to keep viewers engrossed for two hours plus. Airport became one of the top-grossing movies of its era, racking up seven-digit box-office numbers and spawning an entire film genre -- the disaster movie. With Jean Seberg, George Kennedy, Lloyd Nolan, Barry Nelson, and Maureen Stapleton filling out the rest of the leading roles, there was something for almost everyone in this film. The movie still has a lot to offer if only as a prime example of Hollywood at its most successfully glitzy, but, if possible, viewers should try and see the letterboxed version of Airport on DVD (released May 2001). ~ Bruce Eder, All Movie Guide


Burt LancasterMel Bakersfeld
Dean MartinCapt. Vernon Demerest
Jean SebergTanya Livingston
Jacqueline BissetGwen Meighen
George KennedyJoe Patroni
Helen HayesAda Quonsett
Van HeflinD. O. Guerrero
Maureen StapletonInez Guerrero
Barry NelsonCapt. Anson Harris
Dana WynterCindy Bakersfeld
Lloyd NolanHarry Standish
Barbara HaleSarah Bakersfeld Demerest
Gary CollinsCy Jordan
John FindlaterPeter Coakley
Jessie Royce LandisMrs. Harriet DuBarry Mossman
Larry GatesCommissioner Ackerman
Peter TurgeonMarcus Rathbone
Whit BissellMr. Davidson
Virginia GreyMrs. Schultz
Eileen WessonJudy Barton
Leoda RichardsWoman on Dais
Paul PicerniDr. Compagno
Robert PattenCapt. Benson - Pilot
Clark HowatBert Weatherby
Lew BrownReynolds
Ilana DowdingRoberta 'Robbie' Bakersfeld
Lisa GerritsenLibby Bakersfeld (as Lisa Gerritson)
James NolanFather Steven Lonigan (as Jim Nolan)
Patty PoulsenJoan - Stewardess
Ena HartmanRuth - Stewardess
Malila Saint DuvalMaria - Stewardess
Sharon HarveySally - Stewardess
Albert Reed Jr.
Albert ReedLt. Ned Ordway
Jodean RussoMarie Patroni
Jodean LawrenceMarie Patroni (as Jodean Russo)
Nancy Ann NelsonBunnie
Albert Reed, Jr.Lt. Ned Ordway
Dick WinslowMr. Schultz
Lou WagnerSchuyler Schultz
Janis HansenSister Katherine Grace
Mary JacksonSister Felice
Shelly NovackRollings
Chuck DanielParks
Charles BrewerDiller
Joe GrayPassenger
Alain Delon
Alfred NewmanComposer
William BoyettJack Ingram
Harry HarveyFirst passenger told to remove glasses (black frames, thick lenses) Thomas Browne Henry ... Passenger who comes out of bathroom behind Guerrero
Susan Blakely
Hugo FriedhoferComposer
Ernest LaszloCinematographer
Robert Wagner
William H. O'BrienWaiter at Men's Club
Thomas Browne HenryPassenger who comes out of bathroom behind Guerrero
Pat PriestMrs. Jerry Copeland - Passenger
Stuart GilmoreEditor
William HudsonCindy's father
E. Preston AmesArt Director
Walter Woolf KingCindy's father
Damian LondonPraying father
Alexander GolitzenArt Director
Mickey S. MichaelsSet Decorator
Michael BellBus Driver
Benny RubinPassenger rubbing his face
Jack D. MooreSet Decorator
Leon AltonMan on Dias
Merry AndersMrs. Burt Ball - Passenger
Edith HeadCustome Designer
Michael StearnsPassener 36-D
Ricky AndersonWilliam Downey - Passenger
Fletcher AllenOperations man
Larry Germainhair stylist
Sandra GouldPassenger
Ray AndradePietro Carmona - Passenger
Bud WestmoreMakeup Artist
Maria AndreMrs. Portola
Celia LovskyPassenger
Donald RobertsAssistant Director
Harvey S. LaidmanAssistant Director
Nadine ArlynJennifer Barry - Passenger
Barbara MorrisonPassenger
Ray BallardGilbert Price - Passenger
Larry Clark Birdassistant property master
Larry BartonRabbi Leo Bernstein - Passenger
David H. Moriartysound
Ronald Piercesound
Savannah BentleyVirginia Lopez - Passenger
Waldon O. Watsonsound
Chuck BowmanNew York Dispatcher
Chuckie BradleyDee Gilroy - Passenger
James BradleyJack Stone - Passenger
Eve BrentMrs. David Corman - Passenger
Robert BrubakerDr. Nash
Dee CarrollFlorence
Dort ClarkDr. Henry Bron - Passenger
Ellen ClarkAnne Gordon - Passenger
Tamar CooperCarol Blake - Passenger
Cathleen CordellMrs. William Donovan - Passenger
Genre: Drama
Media: DVD
Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS
IMDb: 0065377