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Airport 75 / Airport 1975


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  Airport 75 / Airport 1975 Review
Tookey's Rating
5 /10
 
Average Rating
3.23 /10
 
Starring
Charlton Heston, Karen Black , George Kennedy
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Directed by: Jack Smight
Written by: Don Ingalls

 
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Released: 1970
   
Genre: DISASTER
SO BAD
SERIES
SEQUEL
THRILLER
   
Origin: US
   
Length: 106
 
 


 
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"A box of rotten candy for movie junkies and TV dipsos... Even technically, the picture is a shambles... Probably everybody will have some reason to hiss this picture."
(Pauline Kael, The New Yorker)
"Doesn’t even have a wing and a prayer."
(Paul D. Zimmerman, Newsweek)
"American film making at its shabbiest, most unimaginative, most exploitive. Nothing about Airport 1975 is good; no actor in the cast of dubious luminaries even tries to be... It is to be wished that everyone in the film would go away — violently."
(Jay Cocks, Time)
"Try not to see it on a plane because it might force you to walk out."
(John Barbour, Los Angeles)
"Cheapjack moviemaking... A 107-minute plug for the Boeing 747... Jack Smight’s direction matches the hiccupping story line."
(Judith Crist, New York)
"The piece remains resolutely grounded."
(John Coleman, New Statesman)
"Discriminating audiences may find the story beyond credibility and some of the dialogue inane and they will be absolutely correct."
(Film Bulletin)
"The laughs start when Sister Reddy, guitar in hand, serenades the ailing Blair whom no one has told that patients in dire need of organs don't beam like contestants in a Junior Miss contest."
(Margulies & Rebello)


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