Jul 23, 2025
Airport '77 (1977)
"What worries me is whether that bulkhead back there can withstand the pressure."
"Stan, we have no choice, if we don't try to get that door open and a man up to the surface to send a mayday signal, they'll never find us."
"Yeah, you're right. Some choice we got: either we all drown or we all suffocate."
#airport '77#disaster film#american cinema#1977#jerry jameson#jack lemmon#lee grant#brenda vaccaro#joseph cotten#olivia de havilland#darren mcgavin#christopher lee#robert foxworth#kathleen quinlan#james stewart#james booth#maidie norman#george kennedy#michael pataki#m. emmet walsh#monica lewis#michael scheff#if the first airport film was an attempt to capture something of the wide cross section on people and stories found in an average airport#then this second sequel has abandoned those lofty aims entirely: we spend all of 5 minutes in an airport before it's on to a privately#owned super jet and the exclusively stinking rich passengers upon her. the lack of diversity and breadth in the characters is a little#disappointing but this is still an unlikely fun time; a lot of that is down to the inspired casting of Lemmon as the pilot‚ a warm and#compelling actor who makes his role much more human and much more developed than any of the flight deck crew in the previous films (flight#attendants are another matter; having fared better for characterisations in film 1 and 2‚ they barely feature here at all)#a fun pulpy 70s disaster nonsense which gets double points for managing to shoehorn the Bermuda triangle into the plot and features the now#customary starry lineup of aged Hollywood dependables vs up and comers (plus an unexpected Chris Lee‚ who's brilliant and very against type)