Airport 1975
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| Directed by | Jack Smight |
| Produced by | William Frye Jennings Lang |
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Screenplay: Don Ingalls Novel: Arthur Hailey |
| Starring |
Charlton Heston Karen Black George Kennedy Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Susan Clark Erik Estrada |
| Music by | John Cacavas |
| Cinematography | Philip H. Lathrop |
| Edited by | J. Terry Williams |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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106 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3 million |
| Box office | $47,285,152 |
Airport 1975 (also known as Airport '75) is a 1974 American air disaster film and the first sequel to the successful 1970 film Airport. Airport 1975 is directed by Jack Smight, produced by William Frye and Jennings Lang and has a screenplay by Don Ingalls. The film stars Charlton Heston, Karen Black and George Kennedy, as well as, in her final screen appearance, Gloria Swanson.
The plot concerns the dramatic events aboard an airborne Boeing 747 when a small aircraft crashes into the cockpit causing the fatalities of senior crew and the blinding of the pilot with no one aboard qualified to take the controls.Airport 1975 was the seventh highest-grossing movie of 1974 at the U.S.A. and Canada box office.
Columbia Air Lines' Flight 409 is a Boeing 747-100 on a red-eye route from Washington Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport. Scott Freeman, meanwhile, is a New Mexican businessman flying his private Beechcraft Baron to an urgent sales meeting in Boise, Idaho. However, an occluded front has the entire West Coast socked in, with Los Angeles reporting zero visibility. Columbia 409 and Freeman's Beechcraft are both diverted to Salt Lake City International Airport.
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