Retrospective - 1974's "Airport 1975"

Also starring Myrna Loy as the drunken lesbian, Sharon Gless as a background player, and the color purple as itself.

And of course Regan MacNeil as the sickly Janice Abbott

R2 Poor Linda never had a chance at a real career after her one iconic role.

For sick kids on airplanes, I much preferred the "Airplane" version. She emoted more, and wasn't afraid of a little physical business to sell the scene.

Airport ‘77 is a close second favorite, mainly because of Lee Grant playing the drunk, suicidal harpy wife to Christopher Lee.

Sorry, I'm all about Poseidon Adventure. ProtoFallon, Shelley Winters swimming and an eternal theme song.

R5, yes indeed but Poseidon Adventure is legitimately good

The best thing about Airport '75 (other than the scenes of a cross-eyed Karen Black navigating the plane with an enormous hole smashed into the cockpit) is Gloria Swanson in the black-and-white snood. They let her write all her own lines which all make no sense, but are bizarre dissociations about Carole Lombard and Grace Moore, and Cecil B. de Mille flying loop the loops in a private plane.

Norman Fell!

Jerry Stiller!

Everyone mentions Gloria Swanson, but overlooks her Sunset Boulevard co-star, Nancy Olson.

Carol Burnett expertly spoofed this stinker

Airport 75 and the disabled pilots were basically the inspiration for Airplane!

r10: , as the Zuckers and Abrams have explicitly admitted, it was actually a 1950s film called "Zero Hour!" that mostly inspired the plot of "Airplane!": poorly prepared fish served on board gives food poisoning to half the passengers and all the crew, so a traumatized war fighter pilot has to fly the plane.

Not here to fight OP but for your consideration The Concorde . . .Airport '79

it's surreal and so is the cast :Charo, Bibi Andersson, Sylvia 'Emmanuel' Kristel, Alain Delon, Robert Wagner, Cicely Tyson, John Davidson, Martha Raye, Jimmie "JJ" Walker, Avery Schreiber, Sybil Danning, Mercedes McCambridge, George Kennedy, Andrea Marcovicci, Eddie Albert, Susan Blakely and the late David Warner all in 1 film!

There seems to be a stop and start plot and at some point, you just get the feeling they said the hell with it and just let loose

[quote]The Concorde . . .Airport '79 it's surreal and so is the cast :Charo

Featuring Charo's immortal line, "Ju miscon-screw me."

The big three of the Disaster Film era were:

The Poseidon Adventure

Earthquake

Airport '75

A couple came earlier and many later, but these three were all box office smashes and entertaining as fuck!

Robert Wagner was so pissed at the reviews for this movie that he took a nice, long cruise with Natalie.

I've seen it on the big screen three times. It's next-level entertaining.

Salt Lake! Salt Lake! This is Nancy the senior stewardess. I can't believe nobody mentioned me yet.

R14. Don't forget Towering Inferno! If not mistaken this movie inspired the 'Disco Inferno" song. (burn baby burn)

with Christopher Norris as the other stewardess

and Jerry Stiller as the passenger who sleeps thru it all

The Disaster Movies of the '70s are so good.

It's weird to watch Airport 1975 and then Airplane, because they look so similar and Airplane just skewers Airport '75.

Two things I noticed after watching Airport '75 recently was the extra who holds on to dear life when there is air turbulence and screams as if this is her big moment on-screen.

And then Helen Reddy's shady nun hustling her way into First Class to play guitar for the sick girl and then STAYING THERE. Nice hustle, Sister.

As I understand, as I was not present for the festivies, when they ran this movie at San Francisco's, Castro Theatre, my beloved, fellow gays, had a good laugh at Karen Black, losing it in the cockpit.

[quote]a good laugh at Karen Black, losing it in the cockpit

Which part, the Salt Lake, Salt Lake part?

R23: her overracting.

her grimacing and shaking when she flies the plane is classic

(it's an odd performance---kind of bad yet I find her very compelling throughout)

I meant the Big Four Disaster Movies!

How could I have left out The Towering Inferno?

What an incredible title, huh?

There was a huge billing kerfuffle with who would get top billing, Paul Newman, or Steve McQueen, and then along came William Holden who actually felt even at his vintage that he would of course be billed first!

He wasn't.

“Climb, baby… CLIMB.”

Linda Blair “the people (on the airplane) are so into”!

Helen Reddy (seeing an energy vehicle out of a window) “I hope it’s nothing serious “.

Interesting

^^interesting

Love Erik Estrada's actual little black book, no doubt brimming with available sluts in every city.

Linda Blair was nearing death lying in her mobile hospital bed yet had enough drive and lust for life to being along a big ol guitar to strum some tunes during the flight. This of course turned Helen Reddy on.

and that's why I'm a best friend to myself---Sister Helen

R21 I never thought of it that way, but Helen's nun absolutely did that. Sure, she was helping the mother and the sick girl, but she also looked comfortable in the lounge seating.

And that elderly gargoyle of a nun she was traveling with was surely no fun.

I think this is Erik Estrada's best big screen performance.

There should be an audience participation screening of "Airport '75" like there is with "Rocky Horror"!

Young people today are so humorless and hissy, I'm not sure they'd enjoy it though.

[quote]The best thing about Airport '75 (other than the scenes of a cross-eyed Karen Black navigating the plane with an enormous hole smashed into the cockpit)

Hilarious that half the cockpit is missing, the plane is flying 600 MPH through freezing air that is a vacuum, and Karen's hair is barely mussed. Why, she's not even sucked out the opening!

Flight attendant Nancy is not sucked out of the hole because the cabin has already depressurized.

I hope it’s nothing serious.

And I have a photo of Karen Black and Lilla Heston, Charlton’s younger sister, at a cast party when they were at Northwestern.

Circle of Life.

Helen Reddy won a Golden Globe for Best Newcomer in a film for her earnest performance in Airport ‘75.

I had the novelization. Bet you're jealous

I knew someone who went on a Silversea cruise that was movie themed. Several actors from the Golden Age were there, including Heston, Jane Powell and a couple of other actors. This guy said that no one wanted to get too close to Heston because his dentures smelled so awful.

Linda Blair naked

Look everyone! I’m fingering my pussy! It’s so interesting!

[quote]For sick kids on airplanes, I much preferred the "Airplane" version. She emoted more, and wasn't afraid of a little physical business to sell the scene.

"She? SHE?" She had a NAME!

[quote] Not here to fight OP but for your consideration The Concorde . . .Airport '79

Immortal dialogue from the above:

STEWARDESS, PLAYED BY SYLVIA KRISTEL: (seductively) "You pilots are such... [italic]men![/italic]"

PILOT, PLAYED BY ARTHUR KENNEDY: "Hey, they don't call it a cockpit for nuthin'!"

Linda Blair throws down her acoustic guitar and starts flickin' her bean while Helen Reddy (in a nun's habit) watches intently.

elsewhere....

Gloria Swanson is drunk and continues to drop a lifetime's worth of dialogue based upon conversations she had with golden-era Hollywood people. Only it's uninteresting and incessant. The PA wants Calgon to take her away.

R15- You forgot to mention The Towering Inferno (1974)

The older nun was played by the wonderful actress Martha Scott.

You forgot to read the rest of the thread R48.

[quote]The older nun was played by the wonderful actress Martha Scott.

In younger and palmier days, Martha Scott created the role of Emily in "Our Town."

And Moses’s mom in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

Omg I love moses mom Jochebed!

I heard when Helen Reddy told a Tonight Show audience she was playing a nun, people laughed. She did not like that at all.

Then she worked with Mickey Rooney and an animated Dragon.

Ahh Helen.

She’s dead

First I had to listen to Charlton Heston ramble on with no lines of my own and then I had to listen to Gloria Fucking Swanson ramble on with no lines of my own. No wonder I left Hollywood...

[Quote] Linda Blair throws down her acoustic guitar and starts flickin' her bean while Helen Reddy (in a nun's habit) watches intently

Flickin the bean to be seen!

The STEWARDESS is flying the plane?!?!