Synopsis
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.
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Cast
- Jack LemmonDon Gallagher
- Lee GrantKaren Wallace
- Brenda VaccaroEve Clayton
- Joseph CottenNicholas St. Downs III
- Olivia de HavillandEmily Livingston
- Darren McGavinStan Buchek
- Christopher LeeMartin Wallace
- George KennedyJoe Patroni
- James StewartPhilip Stevens
- Maidie NormanDorothy
Recommendations
- 50
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie’s a big, slick entertainment, relentlessly ridiculous and therefore never boring for long. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Here we go again--it's time for a 747 to meet disaster once more with a host of colorful characters to worry about as they go down--and this time they go down 50 feet into the ocean. - 50
Variety
The story’s formula banality is credible most of the time and there’s some good actual US Navy search and rescue procedure interjected in the plot. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
Silly as it is (c’mon, helium balloons?), Airport ’77 is the most suspenseful of the series, with death looming over a planeload of Oscar winners, each trying to out-ham the others before their oxygen runs out. - 40
The New York Times
Airport '77 looks less like the work of a director and writers than like a corporate decision. - 30
Chicago Reader
First-rate schlock; overlong and incredibly stupid, but that's part of the formula by now. - 20
Time Out
Disaster movie in which a converted luxury airliner laden with guests and art treasures is hijacked by terrorists and crashes into the sea near an oil-rig. The survivors then spend their time trying to overact their way out of the claustrophobic script, which threatens a death even more slow and painful than suffocation or drowning.
