1974 American disaster film
Airport 1975 (also known as Airport '75) is a 1974 American disaster film, and the second installment in the Airport film series. It is directed by Jack Smight, produced by William Frye, and from a screenplay by Don Ingalls. The film stars Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Susan Clark, Sid Caesar, Linda Blair, Dana Andrews, Roy Thinnes, Nancy Olson, Ed Nelson, Myrna Loy, Augusta Summerland, Helen Reddy in her film debut, and Gloria Swanson in her final film.
The plot concerns the dramatic events aboard an airborne Boeing 747 when a small aircraft crashes into the cockpit, causing the fatalities of the First Officer and Flight Engineer and the blinding of the Captain, leaving no one aboard qualified to take the controls.
Airport 1975 was released by Universal Pictures on October 18, 1974. Despite generally poor reviews, the film was a commercial success, becoming the seventh highest-grossing movie of 1974 at the US and Canada box office.
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