george kennedy airport movies

Guerrero, down on his luck and with a history of Ada Quonsett manages to evade the TGA employee assigned the task of putting her on a flight back to Los Angeles. When Flight 2's crew is made aware of Guerrero's presence and possible intentions, they turn the plane back toward Chicago without informing the passengers.

Endless problems, professional and personal, are thrown at the various personnel responsible for the safe and proper administration of air traffic, airline management and aviation at a major US airport. But where's her husband?

She holds a party, goes to the beach and meets her physician.

Enchanted by the idea of a trip to Rome, she talks her way past the gate agent, boards Flight 2, and happens to sit next to Guerrero. At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it. Take one severe snowstorm, add multiple schedules gone awry, one elderly Trans Global Airlines stowaway, shortages, an aging, meretricious pilot, unreasonable, peevish spouses, manpower issues, fuel problems, frozen runways and equipment malfunctions and you get just a sample of the obstacles faced by weary, disgruntled personnel and passengers at the Lincoln Airport. Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water. Airport is a 1970 American air disaster-drama film written and directed by George Seaton and starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin.

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Airport (1970) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Gwen, just outside the door, is injured in the explosion and subsequent With all airports east of Chicago unusable due to bad weather, Flight 2 returns to Lincoln for an The film made $100,489,151, which, adjusted for inflation, is equivalent to $662 million in 2019.Champlin, Charles (March 21, 1970). In order to survive a flight headed for the Moscow Olympics, passengers of the Concorde must endure aerial acrobatics to dodge missiles and survive a device that decompresses the plane.

In fact there is a whole lot more to this film than aviation disaster but at no point is there the feeling of `gee I wish the plane would hurry up and crash'.

Based on Arthur Hailey's 1968 novel of the same name, it originated the 1970s disaster film genre. This precursor to later "epic" 70's disaster films illustrates 12 hours in the lives of the personnel and passengers at the "Lincoln Airport." With Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Jean Seberg. Somehow the control tower must get a pilot aboard so the jet can land.

A supersonic airborne disaster.

A crazed sniper is set to kill spectators at an L.A. Much sympathy is generated for struggling older woman Inez Guerrero (Maureen Stapleton, who is excellent) who discovers that her heavily insured husband D O Guerrero (Van Heflin, also excellent in one of his last roles) who has claimed to have found demolition work in Milwaukee, has actually booked a one-way ticket to Rome.

George Kennedy, Actor: Cool Hand Luke. Airport is a film that has been unfairly tarnished by having spawned three `sequels' which were really just variations on the aviation disaster plot-line with little in common with this film. George Harris Kennedy, Jr. was born on February 18, 1925 in New York City, to Helen A. Following high school graduation, Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army in 1943 with the hope to become a fighter pilot in the Army Air Corps. Check out some of the IMDb editors' favorites movies and shows to round out your Watchlist.Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Guerrero runs into the lavatory and sets off the bomb, dying instantly and blowing a three-foot hole in the fuselage.

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