My personal favorite of the Airport series
Ok, so the plot has some holes in it but the cast does very well with what they have to work with. Jack Lemmon and Darren McGavin turn in above average performances which are quite believeable. Same goes for Christopher Lee, Joseph Cotton, Olivia De Havilland, and Brenda Vaccaro. To me it seems that most of the cast came to this project with a professionalism which was lacking in Airport 1975 and The Concorde: Airport '79. Christopher Lee stated in his autobiography that this movie was what it was-a disaster movie. I can't argue with that. But he didn't let this stand in the way of giving a performance that he should be proud of. It was these performances which lent to this film the air of believeablity which lifted Airport '77 to one of the better disaster movies of the 1970's. The Universal Terminal Pack which contains all four Airport films is of excellent picture and sound quality and contains theatrical trailers from all four films.
- Onslow1965
- Jun 19, 2004