Synopsis
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
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Cast
- Charlton HestonAlan Murdock
- Karen BlackNancy Pryor
- George KennedyJoe Patroni
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr.Captain Stacy
- Susan ClarkHelen Patroni
- Helen ReddySister Ruth
- Linda BlairJanice Abbott
- Dana AndrewsScott Freeman
- Roy ThinnesUrias
- Sid CaesarBarney
Recommendations
- 63
Chicago Sun-Times
Airport 1975 is good, exciting, corny escapism and the kind of movie you would not want to watch as an in-flight film. - 63
ReelViews
The movie does offer its share of thrills and cheesy, unsophisticated fun. Just don't watch it if you're planning any air travel soon. - 60
Variety
Jack Smight’s direction has the refreshing pace of a filmmaker who knows his plot can crash unless he hurries. - 60
Time Out
A ridiculous sequel, bad enough to be enjoyable, what with its jumbo jet crammed full of Hollywood celebs - Gloria Swanson, Myrna Loy, Sid Caesar, even Linda Blair (as a teenager being rushed to a kidney transplant) who looks like she is going to vomit over two nuns. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
This film, with a whole new cast of miscasts, is even more mindless than its predecessor. - 50
The New York Times
A silly, jumbo-size sequel to the original film adaptation of Arthur Hailey's Airport. - 42
The A.V. Club
Where to begin with this accidental comic classic, which gives its direct descendant—the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker parody Airplane!, effectively the nail-in-the-coffin of the ’70s disaster movie cycle—some very real competition in the guffaw department? - 40
The New Yorker
Processed schlock. This could only have been designed as a TV movie and then blown up to cheapie-epic proportions.
