Airport (movie)

During the 1980s occasional reports surfaced that another Airport film was in the planning stages, but nothing materialized. The title was borrowed for an purported remake with Paris Hilton, released in 2005. The final death-knell of the entire genre was the release of the first of the spoof series Airplane! the following year. MPAA Rating: PG. The film did less well than the others, and the disaster movie era was winding to a close by this time. In a chilling coincidence, many of the flying sequences in this movie use the Air France Concorde F-BTSC which crashed in Paris in July 2000 killing all on board. With gasp inducing (and tongue-in-cheek) 3-D scenes like the museum fire, paddleball man and can-can girls, de Toth creates an atmospheric film which stands up as a horror classic in 2-D as well. The cast was not as stellar as the previous movies - Robert Wagner, Susan Blakely, Alain Delon, Sylvia Kristel, and Charo starred, as well as George Kennedy. When Cathy’s friend, Sue (Phyllis Kirk), visits the museum she makes a discovery that leads to the horrifying truth behind the House of Wax.

The final episode of the series was The Concorde: Airport '79 (1979), which was the last and widely considered poorest effort of the series. The museum’s popular "Chamber of Horrors" showcases recent crimes like the murder of Wallace, a victim of a cloaked, disfigured killer along with his fiancée, Cathy (Carolyn Jones). Again, a notable cast - Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Olivia de Havilland, James Stewart, Christopher Lee, Kathleen Quinlan and of course George Kennedy - the only actor to appear in all four movies of the series. This sequel is generally considered the best of the sequels, even if it is the least technically accurate from an aviation perspective. Miraculously, Jarrod survives (though his hands and legs are rendered useless) and builds a new House of Wax with help from threatening deaf-mute sculptor, Igor (Charles Bronson). A further follow up, Airport '77 (1977), pushed the suspension of disbelief to ever more bizarre levels, in this case a private 747 which crashes in the Atlantic and sinks, trapping everyone on board under water. The vengeful Wallace torches the museum, leaving Jarrod for dead. The movie has dated badly, and in particular its blatant sexism stands out as notably cringe-worthy from a modern perspective. When his financial partner, Sidney Wallace (Paul Cavanagh), demands more sensational exhibits to increase profits, Jarrod refuses.

This movie, directed by Jack Smight, fell firmly into the blockbuster disaster movie category at the height of the genre's heyday, and established many of the "standard" plot devices and motifs that were later widely mocked in the Airplane! series. Professor Jarrod (Vincent Price) is a devoted wax figure sculptor for his museum in 1910s NYC. The pilots are killed or incapacitated and the stewardess (Black) has to fly the aircraft until a pilot (Heston) is put aboard in flight using a mid-air transfer from a fast helicopter. André de Toth’s remake of Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) is one of the first and best 3-D (stereoscopic) feature films, an alternative technology (like Cinemascope, Cinerama) used by 1950s directors attempting to compete with the new threat of television. This film featured the passengers and crew of a Boeing 747, and the events following a mid-air collision with a light aircraft. House of Wax is a 1953 American Psycho film starring Vincent Price. Several sequels were made, the first of which, Airport 1975 (1974), was a big-budget blockbuster featuring an all-star cast, including Charlton Heston, Karen Black, Gloria Swanson (who played herself in her last big-screen appearance), Myrna Loy, Linda Blair, Helen Reddy, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Roy Roberts as Matthew Burke.

Trans Global Airlines has been seen in many other Universal Studios productions, such as Emergency!, when a fictional airline is needed. Carolyn Jones as Cathy Gray. Only one Boeing 707 was used in the filming, N324F a 707-349C was leased from Flying Tigers by Universal Studios and had an El Al cheatline over a bare metal finish with the fictional Trans Global Airlines titles and tail. Phyllis Kirk as Sue Allen. The majority of the filming was done at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, which stood in for the fictional Lincoln International Airport which was supposedly in Chicago. Tom Brennan. It won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Helen Hayes), and was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Maureen Stapleton), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design (Edith Head), Best Film Editing, Best Music, Original Score, Best Picture, Best Sound and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. Frank Lovejoy as Lt.

It would be the last film scored by Alfred Newman before his death. Vincent Price as Professor Henry Jarrod. It was directed by Seaton and Henry Hathaway. The movie was adapted by George Seaton from the novel of the same name by Arthur Hailey. Jordan.

Guerrero, Barry Nelson, Dana Wynter, Lloyd Nolan as the head of Customs, Barbara Hale and Gary Collins as the third officer of Flight 2, Mr. O. Guerrero, Maureen Stapleton as Mrs. Quansett, Van Heflin as D. It stars Burt Lancaster as Mel Bakersfeld, Dean Martin as Vernon Demerest, Jean Seberg as Tanya Livingston, Jacqueline Bisset as Gwen Meighton, George Kennedy as Joe Patroni, Helen Hayes as Mrs.

Although it had a complex plot, Airport paved the way for the disaster movie genre and established many of the conventions for that genre. Airport is a 1970 film which tells the story of an airport manager trying to keep his fictional Chicago airport open during a snowstorm, whilst a bomber plots to blow up an airplane (a Boeing 707 in this movie).