Airport (Full Screen Edition)

Rated: G (General Audience)

Product Description

Combining a gripping story, intense action and ground-breaking special effects, Airport paved the way for a whole new style of disaster film and became a trend-setting box office blockbuster. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• Release Date: May 2003
• Rating: G (General Audience)
• Publisher: Good Times Video
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Color; NTSC
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

This is where it all began

There have been a few disasters and monsters before this movie. However, this is the one credited as the beginning of the airplane disaster movies. These have included some sequels and even the “Airplane” spoofs . It is fun to look back at the different actors and remember or see them for the first time in a younger body. The film has several overlapping and intertwining stories; some of the stories seem like soap operas. A few notable scenarios are Mel Bakersfield (Burt Lancaster), an airport manager who is accused of placing his work before his family. He gets berated in the middle of a crisis by his probably-to-be ex-wife, Cindy Bakersfield (Dana Winter). Does he also get distracted by his beautiful and efficient assistant? Throw in a pilot playboy, Capt. Vernon Demerest (Dean Martin) is forced to evaluate fatherhood. For comic relief, we have Ada Quonsett, a geriatric stowaway. Then, for the drama, there is someone who has nothing to lose and everything to gain if the plane mysteriously does not reach its destination: the man with an attaché case, D. O. Guerrero (Van Heflin). I am not going to go through the whole story, it is more fun if you get to speculate on what is going to happen. However, I must say one of my favorite characters is Joe Patroni (George Kennedy) operations chief, who is tasked with clearing the runway of a stuck 707. See him again as the corrupt lawyer, Uncle Andrew, in Agatha Christie’s “Death on the Nile.”