Mel Bakersfeld (Burt Lancaster) is the manager of Lincoln International Airport. On a particularly stressful snowy night, he must deal with an angry wife, a Boeing 707 stuck in the snow, and a bomb-damaged airliner that needs to land as soon as possible. That is the basic plot of Airport, a very entertaining disaster-drama from 1970. It features an all-star cast including Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Jacqueline Bisset and George Kennedy. Helen Hayes is included as a crafty, elderly stowaway who is hilarious (there is actually a lot of comic relief, which in this case isn't really a bad thing).
Airport is a favorite of mine. The acting is melodramatic, yes, but that doesn't really bother me. I would be more annoyed if the actors spoke in monotonous tones. Van Hefflin is pitiful as Guerrero, the one who carries the bomb onto Trans Global Airlines Flight Two, planning to commit suicide so that his struggling wife will receive his life insurance money. There are other subplots that make this film interesting, and suspense sets in as the bomb is discovered. The landing scene is also very dramatic.
My Rating: 5/5
DVD Review
(Airport is available on DVD and Blu-Ray)
This DVD of airport was put out recently. The picture and sound quality are both great. Three extras are included. One is the film's
theatrical trailer. The other two are Universal Studios Documentaries - one is about the famous backlot where movies were and are still made, and the other is about various
Universal hits that hit the screen back in the 1970's.
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