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Airport Terminal Pack (Airport/Airport '75/Airport '77/Airport '79 - The Concord) |  | Directors: David Lowell Rich, George Seaton, Henry Hathaway, Jack Smight, Jerry Jameson
Actors: Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Alain Delon, Susan Blakely
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  66 reviews
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 472 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.7
MPN: MCAD24229D
ISBN: 078328702X
UPC: 025192422928
EAN: 9780783287027
Theatrical Release Date: August 17, 1979
Release Date: February 10, 2004
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Contains: airport: airport 1975 and the concorde: airport 79. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/08/2005 Run time: 471 minutes
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 The soaring 70's. November 10, 2009
Joseph M. Perorazio (Columbus, OH USA)
These four films take the audience back to the 1970's, when disaster movies ruled at the box office and tight polyester pants were worn by the most macho of men. 'Airport 75' is the best of the bunch, and features Charlton Heston in one of his more stereotypical performances as the Alpha male who saves the day. The first 'Airport' film includes a fine cast led by Burt Lancaster, but suffers somewhat from a turgid pace and very dated sexism. The '77 and '79 films alternate between decent dramatic moments and laughable scenes, such as a 747 crashing into the ocean and not breaking apart on impact, or a Concorde making arial maneuvers like an F-15. Overall, the 'Airport Terminal Pack' is fun viewing for 70's pop culture fans, but not up to the technical level of today's action and disaster films.
 Airport Terminal Pack (Airport/Airport '75/Airport '77/Airport '79 - The Concord) August 31, 2009
S. Govindarajoo
Each Airport movie produces just the right amount of excitement to maintain your interest. Plus the casts include some of the most well-known entertainers of their era. Dean Martin,Burt Lancanster, Charlton Heston. And George Kennedy's recurring role of Joe Patroni portrays his ability to change character to suit the movie. These will not disappoint the anyone it could watch with all the family members
 among best of genre August 26, 2009
Chauncey Gardner (Atlanta, GA)
For the sake of space and time, I'll limit this review to what I consider the best of the Airport quartet, Airport 1975.
The plot is summarized in multiple reviews surrounding this one... no need for further repetition. As for the production, it's full of over-acting and hyperbolic machismo. Unexplainably, this compliments and enhances the action. The cinematography is wonderful. The action and the human drama are cartoon-like, but the classic adventures of the screen are always a flesh and blood reflection of cartoons. In that light, I have no problem with Sister Helen Reddy singing a syruppy Up-With-People ballad to a sick little girl.
The special effects are as convincing as props from a Broadway stage, but such was the standard in 1974. The under-achieving reality of the rear-projected mid-air pilot transfer is somehow endearing in its simplicity, and is a welcome refuge from modern eye-busting super-busy computer graphic overkill.
Speaking of eye-busting, the Terminal Pack version is missing at least a few frames of film. In the scene where Karen Black is in the cockpit holding the Captain's discarded coffee cup, I recall her looking into the cup to discover a bloody eyeball. This explains two things... #1 why there is a scene of her holding the cup... #2 the look of disgust on her face in said scene. Granted, I'm relying on memory from viewing the original release in 1974 as a 12 year old kid. I reckon 12 year olds find severed eyeballs quite memorable.
All spoofs and criticisms aside (just and otherwise), Airport 1975 is a film that offers a rewarding avenue of escape. That's what good movies do.
As for extras, there is the theatrical preview, and that's it. Be thankful for that much, considering this DVD set is from Universal, the fortress of young suit-and-tied corporate sharks who could care less about historic cinematic artifacts and such.
high-flying fun for movie fans! July 3, 2009
Byron Kolln (the corner where Broadway meets Hollywood)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a really fun set of movies! The original AIRPORT, filmed in 1969 and based on the novel by Arthur Hailey, was a surprise box office hit and helped set into motion the disaster movie craze which dominated the ensuing decade.
With Dean Martin as the pilot, Jacqueline Bisset as his pregnant stewardess girlfriend, Helen Hayes as a wily stowaway and Burt Lancaster as the airport manager with a marriage on the rocks, it featured sharp writing and direction from George Seaton, who keeps the characters as priority over special-effects shenanigans. Van Heflin, in one of his final roles, is the desperate bomber who provides a nightmarish headache for this unfortunate flight.
AIRPORT 1975 again took it's cue from the original Hailey book source; and the same winning combination of Hollywood greats (Charlton Heston, Myrna Loy, Gloria Swanson) and an array of fresh up-and-comers (Karen Black, Linda Blair, Helen Reddy). Like other reviewers have outlined, this is the film which was mercilessly lampooned in the first "Airplane!/Flying High" movie (ie: the young girl in dire need of a kidney transplant, and the poor stewardess forced to take charge of the plane when the pilots are sucked out...don't ask).
Lee Grant ("Valley of the Dolls") ups the glamour stakes and tears down the scenery in AIRPORT '77, arguably the best entry in the franchise. A chartered plane carrying priceless artworks and a party of socialites to the Palm Beach mansion of a millionaire (Jimmy Stewart) is hijacked and crashed into the Bermuda Triangle. Trapped under the surface, the survivors look certain for a watery grave... It's especially fun to see Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Cotten (the duplicitous co-stars of "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte") reunited. The cast also includes Jack Lemmon as the captain, with Brenda Vaccaro and Christopher Lee.
George Kennedy finally takes the pilot-seat in THE CONCORDE: AIRPORT '79. Throwing logic and common sense out the window, the shiny new Concorde's goodwill flight from the United States to Moscow is threatened when a secret plot involving a heat-seeking missile is uncovered by an American reporter (Susan Blakely). Alain Delon and Sylvia Kristel are the lovestruck pilot and stewardess; Martha Raye has a fun role as a passenger who spends most of her time running to the can!
Each movie is still very enjoyable all these years later, despite the horribly dated special effects and unbelievably contrived plots. Star-gazers will appreciate all the effort that producers went to in order to furnish the films with genuine talents. A bargain set.
airport series June 6, 2009
Fred W. Locke (Memphis, Tn)
1. excellant movie. lots of drama and mixed stories, not just a single theme
2-4 take a few things on faith and enjoy the flight :-)
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