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Airport
1970 · Film · 137 min
Part of Airport Collection
Directed by George Seaton
An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight.
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All it really needed was George Kennedy and Alain Delon as pilots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHzxdrFC72c
(I recently watched all four Airport movies in reverse chronological order which is definitely the right way to watch them since they improve in that direction.)
I think this is more of a listicle for those not familiar with how utterly bizarre 70's scifi movies could be. Underrated by non-genre movie fans specifically. One curiosity not listed was "Capricorn One", one of OJ Simpsons movies. Another is the first Mad Max which squeaks in at 1979.
Another genre that could use similar treatment is the 70's disaster movies like Towering Inferno, Airport and their ilk.
I recently finished watching all four Airport movies from the 70s. And Miami Connection. I’m prepared.
> the top grossing films of the era (70s) were no better than the MCU of today.
These are the top films, and second place, for 1970-74
70 Love Story, Airport
71 Fiddler on the Roof, Billy Jack
72 The Godfather, The Poseidon Adventure
73 The Exorcist, The Sting
74 The Towering Inferno, Blazing Saddles
I only stopped because I got bored copying and pasting. I'm not convinced the MCU stuff really compares. And I love all that Marvel stuff! Maybe if they could do a decent soundtrack. .
Wow... They should make a movie about that.
For you youngins out there... this is a joke, there were several Airport 7X movies (including an episode of The Incredible Hulk (Bill Bixby series) where Banner/The Hulk had to land a plane) in the 70's.
You could also argue it was spoofing the Airport films which were based on books.
Beavers in wooden boxes, what could possibly go wrong!
In fact, dozens of them on an airplane, this should be turned into a prequel of the Airport film franchise: "Airport '50: Beavers on a Plane"
On a more serious note, the ropes keeping the boxes closed seem to be tensioned by the chutes, so the boxes were probably expected to open on impact. Note how the rope also passes through the inside of the box, so they may have hoped for a fallback via the mechanism of a terrified, trapped beaver gnawing on stuff for stress relief. I suspect that most of people involved knew more about the intricacies of beaver containment than about those of airdrops, so I'm more retrospectively concerned about the beavers' safe landing than about their subsequent escape from the return capsule.